Chris Ryan
Elite World Cops (2008)
Chris ryan's season 1
Elite World Cops is a television series starring former SAS soldier and author Chris Ryan. Ryan travels the world meeting some of the worlds most elite police units. The format of the show usually involves Ryan training with the unit, observing tactics and hardware and comparing them to his own experiences in the SAS. The show is currently airing on Bravo in the United Kingdom. It also airs on the USA National Geographic Channel renamed as Shadow Soldiers.
Released Nov. 11, 2008
Episode 60 min
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S1E1 - Colombian Junglas
Premiere of the gripping series that sees the author and former SAS soldier shadow the world's most remarkable police units. Chris joins the Junglas, an elite police unit that patrols the Colombian jungle in search of coca plantations and the associated cocaine-producing laboratories in order to disrupt the lucrative trade in the drug.
Nov. 11, 2008, midnight
S1E2 - Brazilian BOPE
The author and former SAS soldier shadows the world's most remarkable police units to confront crime on the frontline. In Rio de Janeiro he operates alongside the BOPE, the special operations battalion of Brazil's military police, as they embark on a typical mission in the city's slums which are rife with drug-dealing gangs.
Nov. 18, 2008, midnight
S1E3 - Kazakhstan Sunkar
The author and former SAS soldier spends a week in Almaty, the capital of Kazakhstan, and trains with a unit of 120 men coached to handle situations beyond the usual police remit.
Nov. 25, 2008, midnight
S1E4 - Polish BOA
The author and former SAS soldier shadows the world's most remarkable police units as they confront crime on the frontline. He travels to Warsaw to meet members of Poland's elite BOA police unit, originally established as a counter-terrorism force in 2001 but now engaged in a battle to tame the organised crime networks that smuggle drugs, weapons and people across Europe. Ryan joins them as they seek to arrest a suspected arms dealer with links to the Russian mafia.
Dec. 2, 2008, midnight
S1E5 - Isreali Magav
In Mexico the crime rate is so high, most of the police is army and combat trained, to survive the rage and aggression of the street gangs. Ryan joins a special task force of the federal police of Mexico, on their hunt for gangs and local drug labs. He is also involved in a large training excersize involving a Boeing 777-200ER in a hostage situation
Dec. 9, 2008, midnight
S1E6 - Israel MAGAV
The author and former SAS soldier shadows the world's most remarkable police units as they confront crime on the frontline. In Israel, Ryan faces his most difficult task yet as he joins the Magav, the country's border security force which has to police arguably the most disputed territorial boundary in the world. Aside from the political dimension of dealing with their Palestinian neighbours, the Magav also have to counter a range of criminal activities such as drug dealing.
Dec. 16, 2008, midnight
S1E7 - Sri Lanka STF
Ryan joins the Special Police Task Force of Sri Lanka, in their fight against the Tamils. He learns stragetic driving, and urban warfare in the jungle. He goes on a mission to track down and arrest two Tamil scouts on a watchpost, and a small scale training operation involving the use of C4 in a warehouse.
Dec. 23, 2008, midnight
Bravo
60 min/ep
60 min
Nov. 11, 2008
Dec. 23, 2008, midnight
Ended
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