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Blue Lights review: Forget the drugs, crime and death... Belfast policing's a piece of cake, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS


CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Cops eat doughnuts. Coppers eat cake. That's the distinction between US and UK police - same ethos, different recipes, that's all.

The Beeb has a grand wee tradition of policemen from Northern Ireland — Adrian Dunbar as Line Of Duty 's Supt Hastings, James Nesbitt 's morally ambiguous DCI Brannick in Bloodlands. Stevie and Grace had already found a homeless heroin addict dead from an overdose, while the unit's new man-on-a-mission, DS Canning (Desmond Eastwood) was enlisting rookie PC Tommy Foster (Nathan Braniff) to bring down a drugs baron and former terrorist gangster. Stevie and Grace had already found a homeless heroin addict dead from an overdose, while the unit's new man-on-a-mission, DS Canning (Desmond Eastwood) was enlisting rookie PC Tommy Foster (Nathan Braniff, pictured) to bring down a drugs baron and former terrorist gangster

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