Special Ops: To Catch a Criminal - Episode Guide

Season 1

Operation Inuit

Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Jan 5, 2025

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Thames Valley Major Crime Unit investigate a tragic murder fuelled by jealousy, anger and pride. A tale of love gone wrong.

Operation Zori

Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Jan 5, 2025

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Street shootouts can be deadly. A gunfight in suburban Kent leaving a seriously wounded victim sparks a frenetic, highly-pressured race to hunt down the perpetrators.

Operation Earth

Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Jan 5, 2025

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An RSPCA Special Ops team investigate an international criminal puppy farming operation, while Lancashire officers prosecute an owner for animal cruelty and cropping dogs' ears.

Operation Harlequin

Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Jan 5, 2025

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The SFO go undercover to investigate a holiday home company offering exclusive residences in the sun-drenched Caribbean. They discover fraud worth a quarter of a billion pounds. 

Operation Checkroom

Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Jan 5, 2025

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Counter Terrorism Policing foil an extremist Islamist terror plot, and the CPS Special Crime Unit bring those responsible for a fatal crash on the M62 to justice.

Operation Napoleon

Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Jan 5, 2025

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Manchester police take down a gang of teen car thieves while the Serious Fraud Office unravels a 400-million-pound global fraud in the steel industry.

Season 2

Operation Safeguard

Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Apr 13, 2025

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The Dorset Criminal Investigation Department are called to investigate a gang who have scammed a 71-year-old pensioner out of thousands of pounds worth of savings. What they discover turns a one off scam into a major international investigation trying to apprehend a gang of organised criminals who are preying on pensioners all over the UK.

Operation Ghoul

Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Apr 13, 2025

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The RSPCA Special Operations Unit stumble upon a multinational illegal dog fighting ring being run by a known criminal from his home in Chigwell, Essex. The Officers kick off what turns into a mammoth investigation and with the aid of Essex police take the suspect into custody. During his arrest a mobile phone is found and becomes central to the hunt for justice.

Operation Mantle 2

Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Apr 13, 2025

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After Wiltshire Police start to investigate the tragic death of a 71 year old woman at a retreat advocating alternative therapy, suspicion immediately falls on the self-proclaimed practitioner in charge. He considers himself a Godlike figure who can cure all ailments and disease - despite having no medical knowledge. He urges his devotees to discard Western Medicine to adopt instead an ancient Chinese therapy known as Paida Lajin, or Slapping Therapy. His victim had suffered from serious Type 1 diabetes stopped taking her meds whilst at his retreat.

Season 3

Operation Renaissance

Episode: 3x01 | Airdate: Oct 12, 2025

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Arson leads to a gunfight as Merseyside Police respond to a pair of attacks on the Wirral that lead to a gang member being hunted.

Operation Chatham

Episode: 3x02 | Airdate: Oct 19, 2025

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Footballer Raheem Sterling is one of a string of multi-millionaires targeted by a highly-organised burglary gang being pursued by Surrey police.

Operation Jet Stream

Episode: 3x03 | Airdate: Oct 26, 2025

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When a woman reports being held against her will, Thames Valley Police suspect modern-day slavery and are shocked by the identity of the main suspect.

Operation Swip

Episode: 3x04 | Airdate: Nov 2, 2025

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City of London Police begin a dangerous high-speed chase when the UK's most notorious phone snatcher races into the Square Mile on an illegal electric bike.

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