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TV tonight: police crack a global criminal phone network
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 13 January 2026
24 Hours in Police Custody gets exclusive access into the EncroChat investigation. Plus, Jon Richardson causes chaos in the classroom. Here’s what to watch this evening
9pm, Channel 4
In 2020, authorities cracked the EncroChat phone network used globally by criminals. This hit fly-on-the-wall true-crime series gets exclusive access into Bedfordshire police’s covert investigation – starting at a house in Luton, where a hooded figure pulls a shotgun from their rucksack and fires it. The team hack the messages sent in advance of the shooting, which leads to a hunt for the people involved.
Hollie Richardson