Police Custody: Sex and Corruption

SBS premieres UK factual Police Custody: Sex and Corruption on Thursday.

This is the 6th season of a series which aired in he UK in February.

A man in Luton reports he is being blackmailed. Someone has discovered he has visited a prostitute and is threatening to reveal it to his wife unless they are paid a hefty amount. Detectives arrange an undercover operation in which the victim drops off the money as instructed, but the blackmailer does not come to collect it.

After wondering how he could have been tipped off about the operation, they realise that the blackmailer was one of their own detectives. A detective from the Major Crime Unit is arrested, charged and dismissed from Bedfordshire Police for gross misconduct. He is convicted and sentenced to eighteen months in prison, later increased on appeal to three years.

Thursday, 23 August at 8.35pm on SBS.