I wonder if the Northern Ireland-based Historic Enquiries Team are glued to their sofas each Monday night at 9pm to catch the latest episode of New Tricks on BBC1.New Tricks is a drama series featuring an eccentric bunch of ex-policemen, brought out of retirement to investigate unsolved crimes as part of UCOS (Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad).
The Historic Enquiries Team is a unit of the PSNI staffed by an eccentric bunch of ex-policemen, brought out of retirement to investigate unsolved crimes.That’s a cheap joke - and not true, though every organisation needs a few eccentrics to keep it fresh!
Operationally independent from the PSNI, but reporting to the Chief Constable, HET brings together a review team recruited from police officers from outside Northern Ireland with a locally recruited investigations team.
They are ploughing their way through the 3,269 unsolved murders committed during the Troubles (1968-1998). However, they are falling short of their closure target of 40 cases per month. This still feels faster than the clear up rate of the UCOS team on New Tricks.
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