Anti Corruption Unit 9

**Anti-Corruption Unit 9**, also known as **AC-9** is a smaller professional standards department within Central Police.

## Information

The department also carries out professional standards investigations into officers in Central Police. However, unlike AC-12, they are also responsible for operating the witness protection programme. One of the safe houses operated by the department is a property at St. James Close, in the Dorden area of The City.

Throughout the series, the department has been shown (unlike AC-12) to have a propensity for corruption amongst its officers. Although mentioned several times throughout the show, the location of where the department operates out of is never shown.

## Members

* Detective Inspector Matthew Cottan (Series 2)
* Detective Sergeant Jayne Akers (Series 2)
* Detective Constable Jamie Desford (Series 4)

## Series 1

### The Probation

After Tommy Hunter is arrested by Central Police and agrees to become a protected witness and testify in exchange for immunity, he is placed into AC-9's protective custody.

## Series 2

### The Ambush

Witness protection officer DS Jayne Akers contacts DI Lindsay Denton at 4th Street Station, informing her that a protected witness (later revealed to be Tommy Hunter) needs to be extracted due to a credible and immediate threat to life. Whilst transporting Hunter from an AC-9 safehouse on St. James Close in Dorden back to the station, the police convoy is ambushed, resulting in the deaths of Akers, PC Vincent Butler and Sgt Alex Wallis.

### The Caddy

In various flashbacks, it is revealed that corrupt AC-9 officers DS Jayne Akers and her superior DI Matthew Cottan conspired to have Hunter removed from custody and handed to his associates in the Organised Crime Syndicate. However, the officers did so for different reasons.

Akers wanted Hunter given back to his associates so he could be killed and no longer be able to commit heinous crimes against young women such as Carly Kirk whilst remaining immune from prosecution. Cottan pretended this was his reason also, but in reality wanted Hunter dead so he could not reveal the fact that Cottan was a long term mole with the Organised Crime Syndicate who had been working for them since he joined Central Police. Despite the two agreeing the handover was to be simple and bloodless, Cottan gives alternative orders to the gunmen to murder Tommy Hunter and any potential police witnesses, including Akers, whilst leaving DI Lindsay Denton alive to take the fall.

## Series 4

### Episode 6

DC Jamie Desford of AC-9 is seen liaising with both ACC Derek Hilton and DS Sam Railston of Murder Squad. The unit accompanies the Assistant Chief Constable to an AC-12 crime scene located in the Queens Chase Woodland, and helps liaise when authority of the scene is transferred to Murder Squad.

When DCI Roz Huntley is arrested and interviewed at the AC-12 Building, AC-9 is also permitted to listen in to the interview.

## Series 6

### Episode 4

As a result of police cuts to anti-corruption, DCC Andrea Wise reveals to Superintendent Ted Hastings that PCC Rohan Sindwhani plans to reveal that AC-3, AC-9 and AC-12 will be merged into one department and the members of each unit will be able to apply to join the new department or be redistributed elsewhere in the force.