Synopsis
Following investigative reporter Mark Daly, who joined Greater Manchester Police as an undercover probationary and lived a double life for 7 months in order to find out whether the police are institutionally racist.
- Programme: The Secret Policeman
- Channel: BBC One
- Broadcast year: 2003
- Sociology
Licence: ERA Licence required
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