Unlike Line of Duty, which is seemingly set in an indeterminate Midlands city, the specific location is central to Blue Lights. Where the first series revolved around a former IRA man now heading a crime family in Catholic, nationalist West Belfast, the focus of the second series was a loyalist pub in Protestant East Belfast. The action now shifts to affluent South Belfast, where a Dublin-based crime gang is attempting to dominate the city’s drugs trade.
Siân Brooke as Grace Ellis and Martin McCann as Stevie Neil. The action shifts to affluent South Belfast neighbourhood in the third series (Photo: Peter Marley/BBC/Two Cities Television)
That’s after one of the gang’s young street runners, Sandy McKnight (Jack McBride-Marshall), is picked up by Grace and Stevie (Siân Brooke and Martin McCann) – only for Organised Crime to step in and take over the case.
The last of the regular cast of “peelers”, Annie (Katherine Devlin), is having to make visits home to Catholic West Belfast to visit her sick mother. Previous series have underlined her anxieties about joining the traditionally Protestant-dominated Police Service of Northern Ireland and the threats that might arise from her own community.
Deárbhaile McKinney as Aisling Byrne and Katherine Devlin as Annie Conlon. The award-winning show has already been commissioned for a fourth series (Photo: Steffan Hill/BBC/Two Cities Television)
Co-creators and writers Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson not only grew up in Northern Ireland and live in Belfast, they also share an impressive journalistic background, having worked together on Panorama.
Another series has already been commissioned and there is a slight danger that once all the more distinctive characteristics of policing in Northern Ireland have been covered, Blue Lights might settle into being just another standard police procedural. In the meantime, however, it remains the best cop show on British TV.
‘Blue Lights’ continues next Monday at 9pm on BBC One. The full series is streaming on BBC iPlayer
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