Character Bios

Work in progress

Jack Halford

• Serious or joking when he said he set up SO43 - The department for discrete questioning
• Left the force a DCS (Detective Chief Superintendant)
• Was once Sandra's boss
• Awarded the Queen's Police Medal
• Married to Mary who died after a hit and run accident
• Still talks to Mary

Brian Lane

• A recovering alcoholic
• Obsessive compulsive
• Married to Esther
• Has a son Mark and a daughter?
• Supports AFC Wimboldon
• Left the force a DI on health grounds, otherwise he could have been prosecuted over the death of a man in his custody - Anthony Kay.
• Owns a dog called Scruffy and then another dog in season three

Sandra Pullman

• A Detective Superintendant
• Had an affair with a married man
• Given UCOS to run after shooting a dog during a hostage rescue situation
• Had a relationship with a spook from MI5
• Been divorced

Gerry Standing

• Once declared bankcrupt
• Used to own a couple of greyhounds and kept them in Epping
• Left the force because he hit DAC Bevan when he was a DI. Bevan's jaw was wired for weeks. He hit him after he accused him of taking a bun (bribe) from George Wilson. He'd been watching a garage with funny money in, a girl started screaming next door and she'd been badly hurt, while Gerry was dealing with her the money was collected. Bevan accused Gerry of slapping the girl around himself which is when Gerry hit him.
• Was once in the Pedophile unit
• Still friends with DI Terry Cassidy, who was his colleague in the Pedophile unit, Terry Cassidy now works in the Serious Crime Group.
• Has three daughters and three ex-wives.