Call to axe WPC's TV show after car attack.MSPs are demanding that a crime fighting reality show starring a disgraced policewoman is taken off TV. WPC WPC (in Britain) woman police constable WPC (Brit) n abbr (= woman police constable) → Polizistin f WPC n abbr (BRIT Sarah Brand, 36, tried to run over her love-rat husband Colin and his lover Gillian Baird. She also splashed paint stripper over Baird's car and slashed its tyres. BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. cameras followed Brand on the beat during the Edinburgh Festival in Shops, Robbers And Videotape. Now Independent Lothians MSP Margo MacDonald wants the episode shelved. She said: "The show would certainly carry more credibility if one of the featured police officers didn't have a criminal conviction." At a trial at Haddington Sheriff Court in March, Brand admitted reckless driving, vandalism and driving while drunk. She was fined pounds 1000 and banned from driving for a year. Shops, Robbers And Videotape was broadcast by the BBC in 2003 and repeated on UKTV People in August. UKTV People said: "We will decide in due course whether to repeat this programme." Lothian and Borders police Lothian and Borders Police is the police force for the Scottish council areas of the City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, Midlothian, Scottish Borders and West Lothian. The force's headquarters are in Fettes Avenue, Edinburgh. said: "Internal disciplinary proceedings are ongoing." CAPTION(S): TV cop: WPC Brand |
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