#340 - The Real 'H' (Line of Duty, Operation Countryman)

BBC TV drama series ‘Line of Duty’, a police procedural follows the exploits of AC12 (Anti-Corruption Unit 12), based on the Metropolitan Police’s A10, established in 1971 to root out corruption within the force. In the upcoming seventh series they will unravel the conundrum of who is ‘H’, the Police’s highest ranking corrupt officer, who many believe was fictional…
…but he wasn’t, he was real. This is the story of Operation Countrymen, the investigation to root out corrupt coppers' in the Police force, the robberies which led to its downfall, the lives which were lost, the 'good officers' who were worse than criminals and the man who was at the very top of the corruption - 'H'.
The dates and places of the robberies:
Location #1: Daily Express, 120-129 Fleet Street, London, EC4
Date #1: Monday 3rd of May 1976
Location #2: Williams & Glyn's Bank, 67 Lombard Street, London, EC3
Date #2: Tuesday 27th Sept 1977
Location #3: Daily Mirror, 33 Holborn Circus, London, EC1
Date #3: Wednesday 31st May 1978
Victims: Antonio Castro
Culprit: Commander Hugh Moore, DCI Philip Cuthbert, and the many unnamed criminals they held evade justice
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