Catching The Kingpins: 5. Line of Duty

Gangster

BBC

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The truth unearthed about Met police officer PC Kashif Mahmood is stranger than an episode of the fictional drama Line of Duty. And it was evidence unearthed in the EncroChat operation which made him plead guilty.

PC Kashif Mahmood had won five awards for his outstanding service as a police officer. But he was secretly working for an OCG in east London.

A detective from the Met police’s anti-corruption unit talks publicly for the first time about the most brazen case of corruption he’s ever seen.

Presenter: Mobeen Azhar Series Producer: Andrew Hosken Editor and Executive Producer: Innes Bowen Catching the Kingpins is a BBC Studios Production for BBC Sounds.

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0:00.0	I love you and would kill before I would see you taken from me.
0:06.0	Lady Killers is back.
0:08.0	Join me Lucy Worsley to investigate infamous female criminals from the past.
0:13.2	It's really important that we listen to these voices about the society in which they lived.
0:18.0	We're seeking to understand these women from the perspective of 21st century feminists.
0:23.0	We cannot put women into history on the basis of likeability.
0:26.0	Put all the women back, the sinners and the saints.
0:29.0	Lady Killers, listen first on BBC Sounds.
0:35.0	It's the kind of story you might have watched in a TV drama.
0:42.0	A police officer is tired. in a
0:47.0	police officer is targeted by an organized crime gang looking for someone on the inside.
0:51.0	A corrupt insider inside a police station who can run searches for you or give you tip-offs.
0:56.3	That is just how organised crime works in the 21st century. In 2020 the Metropolitan Police come across some intel that one of its own is
1:14.8	working for a gang involved in wholesale drug trafficking and money laundering.
1:20.0	He's completely corrupted working for organized criminals.
1:24.0	They find the clues in messages hacked from the Encro
1:28.0	chat encrypted phone network.
1:30.0	That's the criminals network of choice.
1:33.0	The secret communication system relied on by organized criminals to trade drugs and firearms has been hacked.
1:40.0	It's called Encrochat.
1:42.0	Encrochat.
1:43.0	And its users think it's uncrackable.
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