AFP (TV series)
| AFP | |
|---|---|
_Title_Screen.jpg) AFP Title Screen (Source: Nine Network) | |
| Genre | Factual |
| Narrated by | Jennifer Byrne[1] |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 16 |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Anita Jacoby[2] Andrew Denton[1] |
| Producer | Zapruder’s Other Films[1] |
| Production location | Australia/International |
| Running time | 22 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | Nine Network |
| Release | 26 April 2011 – 11 November 2012 |
AFP is an Australian factual television show that looks at the everyday workings of the Australian Federal Police. It follows AFP investigations and operations in people smuggling, counter terrorism, bomb disposal, international drug syndicates, child sex exploitation and disaster victim identification.[3]
All staff and crew who have worked on the show have been given
top secret security clearance.[2]
In 2013, the show was transmitted in the UK on
Quest
under the title Australia's Toughest Cops.
Episodes
Season 1 (2011)
| No. | Title | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "People Smuggling & Advanced Warrant Team." | 26/4/2011 | |
| Federal Agent Leisa James assists the Indonesian National Police in tracking down a boat that has been launched off the coast of Indonesia. The AFP suspects it will be used to send a boatload of asylum seekers to Australia. Meanwhile, on the streets of Sydney, Federal Agent Kevin Mulroney is about to be put through the hardest test of his career. Having just completed Advanced Warrant Training, he will now be driving the lead car in his first high risk arrest of a potentially armed and dangerous suspect. | |||
| 2 | "Parcel Post & Currency Dogs." | 3/5/2011 | |
| An Australian Federal Police Parcel Post team has been alerted to a box of children's lollies with a deadly surprise. When a second box is detected by Customs and Border Protection officers, the stakes rise and Federal Agent Matt Murray must quickly try to uncover and disrupt the syndicate behind this operation. Also, the AFP unveils a new weapon in the fight against crime - currency detector dogs. Dog handler Jarrod Cook takes two new dogs through the AFP's first ever currency dog detector test. Do either Labradors have what it takes to become fully operational currency dogs? | |||
| 3 | "International Deployment Group." | 10/5/2011 | |
| Two agents undertake pre-deployment training in Australia before they go to the Solomon Islands as part of the Regional Assistance Mission (RAMSI). But they are about to find out the island chain is an explosive mixture of ethnic tension and the local football grand final may just provide the spark for a boil over into riots. | |||
| 4 | "Specialist Response Amphetamine Type Stimulants Team (SRATS) / Timor-Leste" | 17/5/2011 | |
| AFP investigators have received a tip off that there is an illegal drug laboratory hidden in the suburbs of Sydney. If they are right they could be dealing with a house that could literally explode, putting hundreds of lives at risk. Also, Federal Agent Morag McGowan has spent more than a year trying to help rebuild the world's youngest country, Timor-Leste. Before leaving the troubed nation, she has to say goodbye to a group of orphans who have become her extended family. She has no idea what sort of surprise they have in store for her. | |||
| 5 | "Close Personal Protection" | 24/5/2011 | |
| Federal Agent Joshua Walsh aspires to be part of the Close Personal Protection (CPP) team. The CPP team is responsible for protecting dignitaries including the Prime Minister of Australia. Walsh has made it through to the final week of the training course, but the trainers are about to turn up the heat. Will he make the grade? | |||
| 6 | "Unexploded Ordnance UXO / Intellectual Property Crime (Operation Curia)" | 31/5/2011 | |
| The Battle of the Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands was one of the defining clashes of the Second World War. Sixty years later, the explosives used in the epic battle are still killing people. In this episode of AFP, Federal Agent Dennis Sweeney and his local team continue the dangerous task of cleaning up the thousands of pieces of ordnance that litter the island. Meanwhile, two Sydney men have been making thousands of dollars selling fraudulent pay television cards. Federal Agent Tim Underhill has picked up the signal and now he is on a mission to shut down their operation. | |||
Season 2 (2012)
| No. | Title | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Operation Alpan" | 4/10/2012 | |
| After a high-risk surveillance operation, the AFP intercepts a record 80 kilos of methamphetamine originating from China before it reaches the streets of Adelaide. | |||
| 2 | "Operation Glatton" | 4/10/2012 | |
| Operation Glatton, in which the Australian Federal Police uncover an international child exploitation syndicate in Manila, with the help of the Philippines police, and free a young Filipino girl from danger. | |||
| 3 | "Operation Alliance" | 11/10/2012 | |
| Ten years on, the untold story of the hunt for the Bali bombers and the single, tiny clue that led the AFP to a breakthrough and the terrorist mastermind himself. | |||
| 4 | "Operation Cyrene" | 11/10/2012 | |
| Columbia is the frontline on the AFP's war on cocaine. An Australian man attempts to internally smuggle cocaine from Colombia to Australia, but the AFP and Colombian police are following his every move. | |||
| 5 | "Operation Adduce" | 18/10/2012 | |
| A multi-million dollar money laundering operation in Sydney is busted by the AFP. | |||
| 6 | "Operation Kokoda" | 18/10/2012 | |
| August 2009, 13 passengers and crew lost their lives in the mountains of Papua New Guinea when a light plane crashed. This is the story of how the AFP DVI team identify and return all the victims to their grieving families. | |||
| 7 | "Operation Malkoha" | 25/10/2012 | |
| Working with US police, and against the clock, the AFP bust a cocaine smuggling operation from Mexico. | |||
| 8 | "Operation Glatton 2/Operation Dundas" | 25/10/2012 | |
| In Operation Glatton, a man is arrested in Australia over child exploitation material. In Operation Dundas, a woman who is the mastermind behind a syndicate creating false passports and sending them back to the Middle East is being hunted. | |||
| 9 | "Operation Loment" | 1/11/2012 | |
| The inside story of the 2009 arrest of a member of the Bra Boys, using an airline catering company to smuggle cocaine into Australia. | |||
| 10 | "Operation Prometheus" | 1/11/2012 | |
| AFP officers from the High Tech Crimes unit break open a decade old case involving a Russian child exploitation syndicate and a young girl in danger somewhere in St Petersburg. | |||
Home media
DVD
| DVD name | Ep # | Discs | Region 4 (Australia) | DVD Special Features |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AFP Season One | 6 | 1 | 7 November 2012 | None |
| AFP Season Two | 10 | 2 | 6 March 2013 | None |
References
- ^ a b c Knox, David. "Airdate: Inside. Returning: AFP". TV Tonight.
- ^ a b "Q&A with AFP Executive Producer Anita Jacoby". Archived from the original on 7 June 2012.
- ^ "AFP: Coming Soon". Archived from the original on 13 April 2011. Retrieved 15 April 2011.