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The Bill is a long-running British television police procedural television series which ran from 16 August 1983 to the show’s cancellation on 31 August 2010, named after a slang term for the police. The characters are all police officers or civilian staff at the fictional Sun Hill police station in London.
The title originates from "Old Bill", a slang term for the police and show creator Geoff McQueen's original title for the series. The Bill focuses on the lives and work of one shift of police officers of all ranks, and the storylines deal with situations faced by uniformed officers working on the beat, as well as plainclothes detectives.
"Golden Opportunity" is an episode of the long-running police procedural television series, The Bill, broadcast on 16 April 2002. [1] The episode is significant in the show's history, as it features the events of the first Sun Hill Fire, which resulted in the death of six officers. [2]
Cryer was replaced by the first gay officer on the series, Sergeant Craig Gilmore. 2001 also saw the second change to the title sequence in three years, with static photos of the cast replacing the previous images of police systems, while the music was remixed to include the "Overkill" theme tune, last featured in 1988.
Woodentop became the first ever episode in the long-running British police television series The Bill. The name woodentop is a colloquialism for beat policemen who traditionally wear helmets ; the nickname is itself an allusion to the Children's TV series The Woodentops .
The Home Office says the bill's aims will be delivered by recruiting 13,000 additional neighbourhood officers by 2029 - and the department has pledged £200m specifically towards that.
The Bill is a long-running police drama set in and around the fictional Sun Hill police station in south London.The show's focus is on the work and lives of the officers, [3] led by Superintendent Jack Meadows (Simon Rouse) [4] and Inspector Dale "Smithy" Smith (Alex Walkinshaw). [5]
Cameron Tait is a fictional character from the British police procedural television series The Bill, played by Daniel MacPherson.He first appeared in the eighteenth series episode "Thinking Out Loud", broadcast on 30 January 2003.