... the Police/Crime genre the conventions and iconography we would expect in a police series/drama include the police uniform, police car and siren. The locations we would expect to find in a police series/drama are a police station, where the main police characters would meet together- as they would meet in a pub or café if the series was a soap opera- and outdoor locations such as council estates as many police dramas are set in the inner city, although there are some exceptions for example "Juliet Bravo" which is set in the outskirts of the city and in the countryside. The characters we would expect to see are: good - the police - and bad - the criminals. The narrative (main storyline) we would anticipate would be along the lines of a criminal commits a crime and the police catch and arrest the criminal. Within the crime genre there are ...

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