The popular docu-reality produced by New Atlantis airs the second season on prime time on Channel La Sexta with back-to-back chapters
The show is about human trafficking, domestic violence, drug trafficking, international arrests, robberies, gang violence and kidnapping of children. The street unfolds as a concrete jungle in which dangers are not quite the same as the striking images conveyed by the world of cinema. This is a real world, in which bullets strike, and human cruelty is not filtered through 3D glasses. The dangers can be felt in blood and sweat and the State Security agencies are the only link between the viewer and the real world. These are the stories told by the series “Policias en Accion”.
This series, coproduced by La Sexta and New Atlantis (Grupo Secuoya), returns to our screens in full swing, bringing to light the every day life of Spanish National Police officers, who, together with the different police units and brigades, ensure the citizens’ safety.
“Policias en Accion”, made up of 13 chapters, spans the country on the search for the areas with the highest crime rate and conflicts that officers have to face every day. “The series is not pre-programmed so we do not have a script to follow when it comes to shooting. The production team just gets into the patrol car and waits for events to unfold over the radio… we only stay out of it if the police intervention is particularly dangerous, in which case, the police take the cameras themselves.” explains Alfredo Perez de Albeniz, the series director.
For 5 months, a team of fifteen people made up of two cameramen and five editors among others, have travelled from Madrid to Valencia, Alicante, Seville, Coruña and Vigo in two patrol cars and other police cars. During this new season, they have managed to film the work in action of the Foreign Affairs Brigade, the UPR (Conflict Prevention and Response Unit), the Brigade of Public Safety and Narcotics Control, the GOR (Operation and Response Group), the Judicial Police, and the Fugitives Location body, among others.
As Perez de Albeniz points out, “the police fully cooperate and that shows that this series is a faithful and honest portrayal of how police officers are flesh and blood. Beneath their uniforms, they are humans, and they will do anything to the extent that they often have to act like psychologists and counselors during operations”.
