Prime Suspect
Prime Suspect is a British police procedural television series devised by Lynda La Plante. It stars Helen Mirren as Jane Tennison, one of the first female Detective Chief Inspectors in Greater London's Metropolitan Police Service, who rises to the rank of Detective Superintendent while confronting institutionalised sexism within the police force.
Plot
Prime Suspect focuses on a no-nonsense female Detective Chief Inspector (DCI), Jane Tennison (played by Helen Mirren), who is an officer in the Metropolitan Police, initially at the fictional Southampton Row police station.
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contentLocation | London |
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director | Christopher Menaul |
genre | crime drama |
keywords | detective chief superintendent detective sergeant end end of series female detective john benfield police station prime suspect richard hawley southampton row vice squad |
musicBy | Stephen Warbeck |
theme | police procedural |