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* [[Actor Allusion]]: Jack Halford is played by James Bolam, who played Jack ''Ford'' in ''[[When the Boat Comes In]]''.
* [[Becoming the Mask]]: In the episode "Only The Brave" it turns out the murderer was [[Reverse Mole]] Knowles who had gone native in the gang he was sent in to investigate.
* [[Benevolent Boss]]: Strickland's grown into this role over time; having started as something of a politically-minded [[Pointy
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Jack, whilst normally a pleasant, gentle sort of fellow, possesses a sharp and sometimes violent temper if someone (usually a murderer or corrupt cop) has ''really'' managed to annoy him. Also Brian, when he hasn't been taking his meds.
* [[Big Secret]]: There are usually three or four of these per episode, invariably complicating the murder investigation.
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* [[Eureka Moment]]: Brian is sometimes given to these.
** Parodied with a subversion in one episode when Gerry sees someone he recognises in an old 1980s video about a peace protest. We're lead to assume that he's just had a sudden breakthrough about the case... until he proudly announces "I ''had'' her!"
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* [[Giving Them the Strip]]: In "Dark Chocolate", Gerry escapes the [[Conveyor Belt O' Doom]] by taking off his jacket.
* [[Innocent Innuendo]]: Brian often tends to wander into these.
* [[Insult Backfire]]: At the end of the pilot, Sandra refers to the boys as 'criminals'. They react with offence. She amends the insult to 'crooks'. ''This'', they can live with.
* [[Interservice Rivalry]]: When an old case crosses with a new case, most commonly due a murderer trying to cover their tracks, UCOS are supposed to hand the old case over to the people investigating the new case and back off. Needless to say they don't like doing this.
* [[Ironic Echo]]: In the pilot, the deputy commissioner tries to shut down Jack when he approaches him for a warrant by smugly pointing out that he's not actually a police officer any more. At the end, when the same deputy commissioner is getting his arse kicked in the climactic punch-up and begs Jack for help, Jack -- who, with the others, his happily standing on the sidelines watching the chaos -- 'apologetically' points out that he's "not actually a police officer anymore, remember?"
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* [[Kick the Dog]]: Subversion / parody - in the pilot, Sandra - a decent person - is forced to shoot one that is attacking her, but the resulting public outcry completely derails her career and makes her a laughing stock ("You shoot ''one dog'' in this country...")
* [[Monkey Morality Pose]]: Brian, Gerry and Jack at the end of "Powerhouse".
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* [[Old Fashioned Copper]]: - Jack, Brian and Gerry, although the writers [[Lampshade Hanging|hang a lampshade]] on the trope by having the characters gleefully excuse their actions with the (reasonable) justification that, technically, they aren't actually cops anymore.
** Played with at times; sometimes, the old-fashioned way of doing things makes things worse, and the new methods ''are'' the better ones, for their flaws.
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* [[Political Correctness Gone Mad]] - although they're not too bad for the most part, the boys can at times have difficulty adjusting to more modern ways of thinking about things like race, gender equality, etc., which can cause tension.
* [[Put On a Bus]] - P.C Clarke, the squad's uniformed IT officer-slash-gofer, disappears between Series 1 and Series 2.
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