The Crime Agents
Episodes
Special Investigation: Inside Britain’s illegal care home crisis
01 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this special investigation, Andy exposes the scandal of the hundreds of illegal children's care homes which are operating all over the UK. In a joi...
Q&A: Should all police officers carry Tasers & should kids be banned from social media?
29 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Figures show that over 100 police officers are assaulted every day in the UK -&n...
Levi Bellfield: catching a serial killer
25 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Levi Bellfield was the first British prisoner to be sentenced to not one, but two whole life orders. He murdered three women, including the schoolgirl...
Q&A: Death threats, Soham Murders & why does Andrew still have protection officers?
23 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's Q&A episode, Neil reveals why he was once the subject of a death threat - and how one of his colleagues used some old-school tactic...
The manosphere: how dangerous are these toxic influencers?
18 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Andy & Neil take a deep-dive into the manosphere: a world of toxic misogyny and con artists. But where exactly is the line between infl...
Q&A: Filming police officers, Iran’s terror threat & how can youth workers stop gang crime?
16 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
After his rant last week about 'police auditors', in this week's Q&A Andy is challenged over his view and asked whether the George Floyd case in f...
Ian Huntley killed in prison attack: how and why?
11 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Ian Huntley, the notorious double child murderer, died last weekend after being attacked in prison. It wasn't the first time he had been attacked whil...
Q&A: Is it time to increase the age of criminal responsibility?
09 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's Q&A episode, Andy & Neil debate whether or not it's time to increase the age of criminal responsibility. It's currently 10 in E...
Does Trump’s Iran war make the UK less safe?
04 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode, Andy & Neil look at what impact the expanding war in the Middle East is having here in the UK. The Iranian regime has a lo...
Q&A: Andrew’s arrest, the evidence against Lucy Letby & should Hitler salutes be illegal?
02 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Andy & Neil take your questions on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's arrest, with Andy revealing the intriguing details he's been told by hi...
Who’s winning the war on gang violence?
25 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
More than one child is murdered every week in the UK - but what if the solution to gang violence isn't tougher prison sentences or more stop & sea...
Q&A: Tracking down Epstein's emails & was Jim Ratcliffe's immigration rant illegal?
23 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's Q&A episode, Andy & Neil explain how the police will be attempting to get their hands on the original versions of the emails in...
Special episode: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested
19 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Join Andy & Neil for this special episode as they react to the news that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been arrested on suspicion of Misconduct i...
The gangs targeting Premier League stars
18 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In towns and cities across the UK, the wealthy are being watched. Organised criminal gangs are targeting millionaires, high-profile sports stars and s...
Introducing: Up To Speed
17 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Crime Agents listeners, we've got a new podcast we think you'll love.Step inside sport’s greatest soap opera, Formula One, with a brand-new podc...
Cheating death: ‘I was ambushed by Russian hitmen’
16 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this special bonus episode, Andy is joined by Sky News cameraman Richie Mockler, who tells the extraordinary story of how he and his team cheated d...
Mandelson, Epstein & Andrew: when policing and power collide
11 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Andy is joined by Lewis Goodall from The News Agents to look at the ongoing police investigation into Peter Mandelson, the former Lab...
Q&A: Andrew's bodyguard & was police chief right to go over Maccabi Tel Aviv debacle?
09 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's Q&A episode, Andy & Neil address the row which has recently engulfed West Midlands Police. Was the force right to ban Maccabi T...
Lucy Letby: time for a retrial?
04 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Did Lucy Letby really murder seven babies, and attempt to murder seven more? This case has received global attention and has caused more public debate...
Q&A: undercover officers at risk from AI, cake fines & does the 'perfect crime' exist?
02 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's Q&A episode, Andy and Neil discuss whether AI is making life more dangerous for undercover police officers. Does AI put them at gre...
‘Britain’s FBI’: how will it work?
28 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
As part of the biggest reform to policing in the UK for 200 years, the government has announced a 'British FBI': a new body which will focus on counte...
Exclusive: inside Britain’s counter terrorism HQ
27 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In 2017, a series of terror attacks hit Britain, claiming dozens of lives - including children's - and sending a wave of fear across the country. The ...
Are the police still institutionally homophobic?
21 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
When Stephen Port - a serial killer who murdered four gay men - was finally brought to justice, the Metropolitan Police admitted that basic mistakes i...
Q&A: Should Musk be prosecuted over Grok & racism on The Traitors?
19 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's wide-ranging Q&A, Andy and Neil address the controversy over Grok, Elon Musk's AI tool which is widely used on X, and discuss wheth...
The secrets of undercover policing
14 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
You've seen it in the movies, but what does undercover policing really involve? What makes an effective covert officer, and just how brutal is it for ...
Q&A: spotting a grooming gang, radical Islam & time to scrap juries for rape trials?
12 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In light of Andy's recent investigation - which alleged that a former Met police officer was part of a VIP grooming gang - in this Q&A episode, he...
Was Nicolás Maduro flooding Britain’s streets with cocaine?
07 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The UK is the drugs capital of Europe, and more cocaine arrives here from Venezuela than from any other country. This week, in light of Donald Trump's...
"I was attacked with a sofa" - tales from the front line
24 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this Christmas special, Andy and Neil ask each other the questions they've always wanted to know the answers to. Andy explains how the unlikely com...
Bondi terror attack: the heroism and the horror
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Andy and Neil unpick last weekend's events at Bondi Beach in Sydney, where 15 people were murdered in an ISIS-inspired, anti-Semitic terror...
The Copper and the Grooming Gang: Special Investigation - Part 2
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this follow-up to Andy's exclusive report, which revealed that a former Met Police officer has been accused of being part of a grooming gang by mul...
The Copper and the Grooming Gang: Special Investigation - Part 1
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this special episode, Andy exclusively reveals bombshell allegations of child abuse against a former Met Police officer, who has been accused of be...
Q&A: Caroline Flack, best cop dramas & can the NCA stop the boats?
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In The Crime Agents' latest Q&A episode, Andy and Neil discuss the way police and the CPS treated Caroline Flack, the TV presenter who took her ow...
Jury trials to be scrapped: the verdict
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Justice Secretary has announced one of the biggest changes in hundreds of years to the way the British justice system works. Jury trials for crime...
The criminals making millions from Christmas
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Christmas: for most of us, it's a time of joy and celebration. But for a new group of organised criminals, Christmas means opportunity. Retail crime a...
What really happens when someone calls 999?
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What proportion of 999 calls in the UK are genuine emergencies? The answer will shock you. In this episode, Andy and Neil play you some of the most bi...
When justice fails: why are rapists getting away with it?
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why do less than 3% of all reported rapes in the UK lead to a conviction? Andy and Neil describe that statistic as "shameful" and "a scandal" - and at...
Why do men commit so much more crime than women?
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Men are responsible for nearly 80% of all crime carried out in the UK and make up over 90% of Britain's prison population. In this Q&A episode, An...
"The police shot my mother" - one man's fight for justice
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
One day in September 1985, a dawn raid in South London went badly wrong. Police were looking for a man called Michael Groce - but they raided the wron...
Special episode: could the mass train stabbing have been prevented?
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As a train guard fights for his life and several other passengers recover in hospital, Andy and Neil bring you the latest on the story which continues...
Armed response: inside firearms policing
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever wondered how it feels to carry a firearm on the streets of London? Or what it's like to be among the first responders after a terror att...
Should NX121 have faced a murder charge for killing Chris Kaba?
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's Q&A episode, Andy and Neil debate the effectiveness of the IOPC: the Independent Office for Police Conduct. Last year, the watchdog...
The Louvre heist: how they pulled it off
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Last weekend, a gang of thieves made off with hundreds of millions of Euros' worth of jewellery from the Louvre in Paris - including some of France's ...
Q&A: Who killed Jill Dando?
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this Q&A episode, Andy and Neil debate what happened to TV presenter Jill Dando, who was murdered on her doorstep in 1999. Was she taken out by...
Madeleine McCann: why the case remains unsolved
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When three year-old Madeleine McCann went missing from a Portuguese holiday resort in 2007, it was a story which had the nation gripped for all the wr...
Phone hacking: the police vs the press
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Once upon a time, the police and journalists were friends and allies. But as the phone hacking scandal unfolded, and it became clear that many journal...
The Crisis Room: Manchester terror attack - what happens next? - The Crisis Room
03 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today, Andy from The Crime Agents joined forces with fellow Global podcast The Crisis Room for a special episode to react to yesterday's terror attack...
SPECIAL EPISODE: another crisis for the Met
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this emergency episode, Andy and Neil react to the shocking revelations in last night's Panorama, which exposed widespread racism, misogyny, and gr...
Is Stop and Search racist?
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's the debate which won't go away: is stop and search a vital tool for making our streets safer? Or is it a blunt, overused tactic which unfairly ta...
How the UK’s drugs trade really works
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The UK is the biggest consumer of illegal drugs in Europe. From the British Pablo Escobar in the 1980s, to Albanian gangs taking over in the last deca...
Q&A: Why is it so hard to secure a rape conviction?
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's Q&A episode, Andy and Neil answer your questions on why the conviction rate for rape and other violence against women and girls is ...
SPECIAL REPORT: What really happened at Tommy Robinson's rally
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tommy Robinson’s Unite the Kingdom march was supposed to be in the name of free speech.Around 150,000 people attended the protest in central London ...
The secret world of child terrorists
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the last year, a child has been arrested almost every week by counter-terrorism police. That's a record - but why is this happening? And who is try...
The real life Line of Duty: how to catch corrupt cops
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you've ever watched Line of Duty and wondered how realistic AC-12 really is, then this is the episode for you. For the first time, Neil takes us be...
'Two-tier' policing: are cops tougher on some protesters than others?
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
All summer, Britain's police have been kept busy by a range of protests. From demonstrations outside asylum hotels, to marches in support of Palestine...
What’s the future of Notting Hill Carnival?
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Notting Hill Carnival is Europe's biggest street festival. It's been a fixture of London's cultural scene for decades and it's attended by millions ev...
Q&A: Should police reveal suspects' ethnicities?
18 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Q&A is back! In this week's episode, Andy and Neil answer your questions on one of the major talking points from last week: an announcement of...
Cocaine and punching police horses: inside football hooliganism
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You've seen The Football Factory and Green Street. You remember the chaotic scenes at Wembley for the Euro 2020 final. And for years you've heard hool...
Policing, politics, prejudice: 30 years on the frontline
11 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's bonus episode, Andy quizzes Neil on some of the most memorable moments from his 30 year policing career. For example, Neil tells the ha...
Inside a Manhunt: on the tail of an armed drug dealer
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When a criminal goes on the run, what do police do to try and catch them? In this episode, Andy is given exclusive access to a Met Police firearms uni...
Broken justice: why criminals are getting away with it
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why are there 5 year backlogs in some of Britain's courts? Why are our prisons so full? And why doesn't any government seem interested in fixing the b...
Is the far-right hijacking legitimate immigration protests?
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Protesters gathered outside the Bell Hotel in Epping for a 5th time this weekend - and there were also demonstrations outside other migrant hotels in ...
Q&A: Were the Sycamore Gap vandals given too long a prison sentence?
25 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Can it be right that the two men who needlessly felled the iconic Sycamore Gap tree at Hadrian's Wall were sentenced to four years in prison? After al...
How to foil a terror plot
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
No one ever forgets a terror attack. But what about the dozens which are foiled at the last minute? Or the threats which are stopped in their tracks m...
Q&A: Should Shamima Begum be allowed back in the UK?
18 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Neil and Andy address the controversial issue of Shamima Begum, and whether it's right that she was stripped of her British citizenship, in this week'...
Death threats and the bomb squad: infiltrating the far-right
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Andy is one of only a very small number of journalists to have successfully gone undercover and infiltrated the far-right. In this episode, he reveals...
Q&A: Were the police and journalists too cosy during the Lucy Letby trial?
11 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
One year ago, Lucy Letby was convicted of murdering seven babies while working as a nurse at the Countess of Chester Hospital. Many believe she was th...
Mission creep: Why are Britain’s police forces at breaking point?
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Police officers are increasingly forced to spend their time doing jobs they were never meant to - and that other public services are simply too stretc...
Face to face with a terror group
04 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Palestine Action – the extreme activist group that infiltrates and vandalises military sites and defence firms - is to become a banned terrorist org...
Inside gangs: Why are children killing each other?
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode of The Crime Agents, investigative journalist Andy Hughes reveals the inner workings of Britain’s most violent street gangs...
Exclusive - The convicted terrorists living on our streets
28 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the very first episode of The Crime Agents, investigative journalist Andy Hughes reveals exclusively how hundreds of convicted terrorists have been...
Introducing: The Crime Agents
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Neil Basu and Andy Hughes - aka The Crime Agents. Neil is a former top police officer and Andy is an investigative journalist who's been covering...