Blackmail Club Captions 01

For more than three years, TV documentary cameras have recorded the gritty reality and daily dramas at Luton Police Station in Bedfordshire. Murder, robbery and domestic abuse cases have all come under the microscope, with neither the filmmakers nor the investigating officers ever quite sure where each storyline will end. None, certainly, were prepared for the twist that awaited when a man came into the station to make a complaint of blackmail: In tense scenes worthy of the police corruption drama Line Of Duty, the cameras capture the unfolding story as officers battle their feelings of disbelief and disgust as they bring one of their own to justice. On a chilly weekday morning in March, a middle-aged man enters Luton Police Station clutching an envelope he has found on the windscreen of his car parked outside his house that morning.