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It’s Plotted

We Provide the Expertise Behind Compelling Scripts

We specialise in providing expert consultation and insights into police procedures, forensic science, and court strategy. Ensuring that the portrayal of policing and criminal investigations are realistic, accurate, and engaging for the audience. Our focus is on bridging the gap between fact and storytelling, ensuring that your narrative is not only captivating but also accurate.

Our team consists of seasoned detectives with extensive backgrounds in investigating serious and organised crime, both proactively and re-actively.

Here’s how we can help in this capacity:

  1. Authenticity in Police Procedures
    • Investigation Process: Provide guidance on how investigations unfold, from crime scene processing to suspect interviews, evidence gathering, and forensic analysis.
    • Search and Seizure: Offering correct procedures for obtaining warrants, conducting searches, and handling evidence, ensuring the scenes stay true to legal standards.
    • Police caution and Interview: Clarifying how officers should read the caution, how interviews work, and ensuring the portrayal of suspects’ rights aligns with the law.
    • Forensic Evidence: Explaining the role of forensic specialists (e.g., fingerprint, ballistics, DNA) and how this evidence is used in investigations.
  2. Realistic Characterisation of Police Officers
    • Behaviour and Dialogue: Advising on how police officers talk, behave, and make decisions, based on their training and experience. This includes how detectives interact with victims, suspects, and colleagues, as well as appropriate levels of authority and responsibility.
    • Courtroom Procedures: How police officers prepare cases for court, provide evidence, and how to handle cross-examination of defence barristers during trials.
  3. Script Review and Consultation
    • Accuracy Checks: Reviewing scripts to ensure police procedures, terminology, and actions are realistic, and advising on potential corrections.
    • Continuity: Ensuring that the portrayal of the investigation and characters aligns with the narrative and police work progresses logically.
    • Improving Realism: Suggesting realistic twists and details that can enhance the plot, whether it’s a mistake a detective might make, an oversight in procedure, or a clever breakthrough.
  4. Tactical and Strategic Elements
    • Chases and Tactical Operations: Advising on realistic police chases, surveillance, and raids or tactical operations, making sure the scenes stay true to real-world tactics and strategies.
    • Police Tools and equipment: Ensuring the correct portrayal of equipment like firearms, uniforms, patrol cars, surveillance tools, and technology.
  5. On-Set Consulting
    • We can be available during filming to advise on specific scenes or help troubleshoot questions about how police would realistically respond in certain situations.
  6. Character Development
    • Assist in building multi-dimensional police characters, from rookies to veterans, and advise on how their experiences and personalities influence their actions and decisions.

Proactive Policing

By incorporating these elements into your project, you can create a nuanced and realistic portrayal of proactive policing against serious organised crime, blending intense action with the strategic, behind-the-scenes work that officers and investigators undertake. This approach will add credibility and depth to the narrative, making it both compelling and authentic.

Proactive policing of serious organised crime (SOC) involves police strategies and tactics specific to tackling highly complex, dangerous, and secretive criminal networks. Proactive policing focuses on dismantling criminal enterprises often using covert methods.

Here’s how we can make the depiction of SOC policing in your project more authentic:

  1. Understanding Serious Organised Crime (SOC)
    • Definition: SOC involves criminal networks that engage in serious offences such as drug trafficking, money laundering, human trafficking, cyber-crime, organised violence, and fraud.
    • Hierarchy and Leadership: Many organised crime groups operate with a clear hierarchy, often with a “boss” or “kingpin” at the top. This can range from street gangs to international groups.
    • Secrecy and Corruption: These groups rely heavily on secrecy, trust, and corrupting officials or Police to remain hidden and protected.
    • Communication: These groups utilise encrypted devices in order to conduct their criminality and evade detection.
  2. Intelligence-Led Policing
    • Gathering Intelligence: Proactive policing is heavily reliant on intelligence. Police gather information through various methods like surveillance, undercover work, and human intelligence (CHIS).
    • Data Analysis and Crime Mapping: Investigators often use data analytics tools to predict criminal activities, identify patterns, and target key players in the network.
  3. Infiltration and Undercover Operations
    • Undercover Officers: Infiltrating an SOC group requires highly skilled undercover officers by gaining the trust of criminal leaders. This is often dangerous and requires months or years of preparation.
    • Covert Operations: Show how surveillance operations, sting operations, and arrests are planned, often involving high levels of coordination between different police departments and agencies.
  4. Collaboration with other Forces and Borders
    • Task Forces and Joint Operations: Tackling SOC often requires collaboration between local, national, and international law enforcement agencies (e.g., the NCA, Interpol, Europol and FBI).
    • International Cooperation: Many SOC groups operate across borders, so international collaboration is often necessary. Depicting the complexities of navigating international law and diplomacy (e.g., extradition, or surveillance agreements) can add a layer of realism to the story line.
  5. Disruption of Criminal Financial Networks
    • Money Laundering: SOC groups often disguise the illegal profits of their activities through complex financial schemes. Police often use financial intelligence to trace illicit funds.
    • Asset Forfeiture: Police use asset forfeiture laws to seize criminal assets, disrupting criminal organisations by targeting their wealth and property.
  6. Techniques for Targeting Leadership
    • Arrests of Key Figures: SOC groups often rely on leadership to maintain structure and control. Disrupting or dismantling these groups often focuses on taking out the top leaders through arrest to prosecution.

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