Plot

The Real Line of Duty tells the story of an undercover police unit set up to crack the cycle of corruption that engulfed the Met in the 90s, and the brave officers who fought for justice from within.

Between 2012 and 2021, hit BBC drama Line of Duty (2012) told the story of a fictional anti-corruption unit that famously went after bent coppers. Now for the first time, the senior police officers behind the real life sting operations re-open the casebooks to reveal the methods used to uncover corruption and secure convictions. They take us back to the crime scenes, show us the operations in detail, how they gathered the evidence, discovered the guilty and built the case that led them to jail. The Real Line of Duty uncovers the wider story of anti-corruption units: why and how the Metropolitan Police turned the torch on their own.—Revelation Films