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5.2/10 TV Original language(s) English Final episode date 11 November 2010 Number of seasons 1 | 5.7/10 IMDb Country of origin Australia First episode date 2 September 2010 Number of episodes 13 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Also known as 'Cops: Local Area Command' Genre Police proceduralDrama Starring Kate RitchieMartin Dingle-WallRia VandervisTom O'SullivanKelly PaternitiGraeme SquiresGary SweetDenise RobertsRoy BillingDamian De Montemas Cast Similar Rescue: Special Ops, House Husbands, Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities, Love Child, The Strip | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cops L.A.C. (Cops: Local Area Command) is a 2010 Australian television police drama, which screened on the Nine Network. The series followed the work of officers at the Seaview Local Area Command, a fictitious police response area of the 'State Police' set in harbourside Sydney, New South Wales. The first series premiered on 2 September 2010, in the same timeslot of Network Ten's police drama Rush.
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On 22 November 2010, the Nine Network discontinued the show due to the high production costs.
Plot
Cops L.A.C. revolves around the police operations of Seaview Local Area Command. Superintendent Jack Finch, a seasoned officer is the Local Area Commander, with Crime Manager Detective Inspector Diane Pappas at his side. The uniforms stationed at Seaview handle anything from general police response calls, to investigation of assaults and muggings; with detectives dealing with cases involving drug dealers and car crashes, shootings, stabbings and armed robbery.
Production
The first series consisted of thirteen episodes and was initiated by Jo Horsburgh and commissioned by the Nine Network in 2009, it was produced by Diane Haddon, Lisa Scott and in-house by the Nine Network Drama Department. Production started on 27 May 2010 and ended on 11 November 2010, after various schelduling changes. Tim Pye, a writer on the series described the show as "like The Bill but with a higher body count." When researching the real-life Local Area Command, he discovered "the more you research the business of policing, the more wondrous it is that people do it… But they stick with it and love it." Filming will wrapped up for the first series in mid-September 2010.
In November 2010, it was reported that the show had been labelled a "dud". Speaking to The Daily Telegraph, an insider said that the show was almost certain to be axed after production on a Christmas DVD of the drama was cancelled.
The season was released on DVD as a three disc set, under the title of Cops: Local Area Command - The Complete Series on 6 January 2011.