Original title
The Ghost Squad
Released
11/15/2005
Origin country
GB
Genre
Crime, Drama
Production companies
Company Pictures
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
1
Number of episodes
7
The Ghost Squad was a 2005 British crime drama series produced by Company Pictures, for Channel 4. The show was created by Tom Grieves. Inspired by the real life "Ghost Squad" that existed between 1994 and 1998, secretly investigating police corruption, the premise of the series is that the squad continued to operate in secret after officially being shut down. It starred Elaine Cassidy as a police constable recruited into the squad and Jonas Armstrong as her handler. The show was cancelled after a single seven episode series.
PC. Amy Harris finds a young Asian man dead in a police interview room, and realises that her fellow officers are framing her for murder.
Amy, newly recruited to the Ghost Squad, investigates a group of police officers who have been working under cover to expose a sex trafficking network.
Amy is sent under cover to work alongside a police sergeant and expose his corruption.
Amy investigates the background of a Chief Superintendent in line for further promotion, but spots her dining with her own boyfriend.
Amy has to discover which of three police officers working on a witness protection programme is corrupt, and make sure that the witness reaches court.
Amy has to get close to a CSU officer under investigation by the Financial Crimes Unit, and find out where her money is coming from.
Amy goes under cover to investigate a detective inspector accused of involvement in drugs and prostitution.
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