Attention Quote by Jason Watkins

'Line Of Duty' is first and foremost a thriller. But I hope it will also be seen as a revisionist commentary on 21st century…

— Jed Mercurio

When 'Line of Duty' started on BBC2, there was a feeling that it couldn't ever become a big show because the BBC2 drama budget…

— Jed Mercurio

'Line of Duty' had originally been conceived as a returnable drama, with the premise being that the fictional anticorruption unit AC-12 would move on…

— Jed Mercurio

Police thrillers are so widely read and police dramas so commonplace on television that many people think they have a good understanding of what…

— Daniel Horan

'Line of Duty' is a social realist drama, so it's set in a world that has the recognisable features of the authentic world we…

— Jed Mercurio

I think a lot of officers go into that line of work because they have a calling for it. But at some point, they…

— Sam Jaeger

When I was growing up and watching 'The Sweeney,' the notion of police officers being an inch away from the villains that they're chasing…

— Lennie James

But the reality is that the police serve a certain function, to maintain a certain status quo, and that's one of the things that…

— Oren Moverman

Because of 'Line Of Duty's proper adherence to police procedure, by definition we end up doing some very long interrogation scenes which are difficult…

— Adrian Dunbar

The police are not entrusted with a mission which differentiates them from those they serve. Being unconcerned with ultimate purposes, they are inseparable from…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

The police genre is capable of holding and shaping many forms of storytelling.

— Lesley Sharp

I am always looking for stories that have not been told too much, and one story that I think is really gripping and important…

— Sam Jaeger