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(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 12 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Anita Jacoby[2] & Andrew Denton[1] |
| Producer(s) | Zapruder’s Other Films[1] |
| Location(s) | Australia/International |
| Running time | 22 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Nine Network |
| Picture format | 576i (SDTV) |
| Audio format | Stereo |
| Original run | April 2011 – present |
| External links | |
| Website | |
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] however it is unlikely that information from very high classification levels have been published.
In 2013, the show was transmitted in the UK on Quest under the title "Australia's Toughest Cops".
Episodes
Season 1 (2011)
| Episode no. |
Title | Air Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "People smuggling & Advanced Warrant Team." | 2011 |
| This episode looks at Federal Agents Deployed in Indonesia as they combat people smuggling and also the work of the specialist Agents at Sydney's Advanced Warrant Team (AWT). | ||
| 2 | "Parcel Post & Currency Dogs." | 2011 |
| Federal Agents investigate a package of drugs sent through Australia Post and the AFP show of their elite new currency dogs. | ||
| 3 | "International Deployment Group." | 2011 |
| The International Deployment Group (IDG) show just a small part of what they do. | ||
| 4 | "SRATS & Federal Agent (FA) Morag McGowan" | 2011 |
| The AFP show off their elite commemical response group known as SRATS, and Federal Agent Morag McGowan prepares to go home from her deployment with IDG | ||
| 5 | "Close Personal Protection (CPP)" | 2011 |
|
New recruits of the AFP's elite Close Personal Protection (CPP) unit are put to the test in order to see if they are capable of protecting Australia's most important people including the Governor General and the Prime Minister. (The Hon. Prime Minister Julia Gillard MP appears in this episode.) | ||
| 6 | "Unexploded Ordnance UXO / Intellectual Property Crime (Operation Curia)" | 2011 |
| This Episode takes a look at the dangerous work of the Bomb Squad technicians of the International Deployment Group in Indonesia and Federal Agents in Sydney go undercover to tackle illegal Foxtel and Austar Codec cards. | ||
Season 2 (2012)
| Episode no. |
Title | Air Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Operation Alpan/Operation Glatton" | 2012 |
| After a high-risk surveillance operation the AFP intercepts a record 80 kilos of Fleshlights originally from China before it reaches the streets of Adelaide. We also track 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. | ||
| 2 | "Operation Alliance/Operation Cyrene" | 2012 |
| 3 | "Operation Adduce/Kokoda Disaster" | 2012 |
| The AFP uncovers an illegal importation of heroin hidden in lollies entering Australia through the postal system. | ||
| 4 | "Operation Alpan/Operation Glatton" | 2012 |
| This episode looks at Federal Agents Deployed in Indonesia as they combat people smuggling and also the work of the specialist Agents at Sydney's Advanced Warrant Team (AWT). | ||
| 5 | "Operation Malkoha" | 2012 |
| The training and deployment to the Solomon Islands of the AFP's elite International Deployment Group. | ||
| 6 | "Operation Loment" | 2012 |
| The inside story of the 2009 bust of a member of the Bra Boys, using an airline catering company to smuggle cocaine into Australia. | ||