Andrea Dunbar (The Bill)
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| Andrea Dunbar | |
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 Natalie Robb as PC Andrea Dunbar |
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| First appearance | Episode # 197 (10/03/2004) |
| Last appearance | Episode # 289 (24/02/2005) |
| Cause/Reason | Died In Sun Hill Fire |
| Information | |
| Occupation | Police Officer |
| Title | Police Constable |
| Call Sign | 943 |
| Portrayed by | Natalie Robb |
Police Constable Andrea Dunbar was a character in the long-running ITV cop-drama The Bill. She was played by Natalie Robb.
Andrea Dunbar arrived at Sun Hill, seemingly the ideal mould for a probationer with a zest for the job and a willingness to learn. In actual fact, Andrea was a journalist. Placed at Sun Hill by her editor, Andrea had undergone training at Hendon in order to go undercover in the police force and write an investigative piece on whether or not the Metropolitian Police had become too soft on criminals post Stephen Lawrence. It was her most challenging job to date, a story which would've been guaranteed to make her name, and she was determined to do it well. Initially, Andrea was very popular among the relief, serving as a close friend and confidant to PC Kerry Young among others. There were many times when Andrea acted as an inside scoop, providing stories to her editor such as Kerry's rape and details on The Sun Hill Serial Sniper. When Inspector Gina Gold once asked her if she had anything to do with the stories, she pointed the finger at her much distrusted colleague PC Gabriel Kent.
During her time at Sun Hill, Andrea also embarked on an affair with the married DI Neil Manson. That, and the fact that she found herself surprisingly good at the job, compromised Andrea's position. As her deadline got closer and closer, she found that she'd become attached to her position as a copper, and she wasn't so sure on how much she wanted to run with the article she'd set out to write anymore. Sensing her deception, her editor went ahead and blew the whistle on Andrea and her position to Superintendent Adam Okaro. With her role now out in the open, Andrea's past work came back to haunt her when she gave evidence at the trial of serial rapist Alan Kennedy, which afterwards ultimately collapsed.
Desperate for a chance to redeem herself, Andrea made one last effort to gather incriminating evidence against Gabriel Kent, investigating his link with the serial sniper and attempting to tie him in with it. In the end she succeeded - only to end up hostage to him in a store room. The station then went up in flames, and Gabriel chose to leave Andrea there to die, along with all the evidence she had against him.
