Season 1
Chris Ryan's Elite Police (also known as Chris Ryan's Elite World Cops) is a British docu-reality television series produced by October Films in which ex-SAS hero Chris Ryan takes viewers inside some of the toughest, most sophisticated police forces around the world.
The series premiered in the UK in 2008. There are eight hour-long episodes in the series.
Chris Ryan's Elite Police premiered in South Africa on DStv's Discovery Channel on Monday 8 December 2008, at 22h00.
Repeats
Sundays: 23h00
Synopsis
Join ex-SAS hero Chris Ryan as he takes viewers inside some of the toughest, most sophisticated police forces around the world. As an ex-SAS special operative, Chris knows a thing or two about combat and danger zones.
This immersive series transports you into the thick of all the action with the elite forces of Poland, Kazakhstan, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Israel and Sri Lanka.
Witness the workings of highly organised and deadly crime fighters in these exotic and sometimes dangerous locations.
The officers are no strangers to dealing with a host of gritty and challenging situations from their gruelling training in order to face bullets, bombs and bloodshed at the hands of organised and violent criminals in the line of duty.
Travelling to Brazil he meets the famously hard paramilitary police unit BOPE who are at the frontline of fighting against Rio de Janeiro’s drug gangs.
In Colombia, he joins the Junglas police on a top-secret mission to blow up cocaine labs hidden in rebel-held territory.
Other police units he encounters include Kazakstan’s secretive Sunkar unit; the feared Russian special force, Spetznaz; the elite force of Poland, BOA; the Grupo de Operaciones Especiales who tackle violent organised crime in Mexico City; and a team of Israeli special police as they try and track down arms smugglers and people traffickers across the vast Negev Desert.
Chris Ryan's Elite Police is a journey into the fight against the very darkest organised crime around the globe.