Unforgettable: The Sweeney

[talking about criminals and CID officers who drank in the same pubs]

Barry Phillips: They'd send a drink across and we'd send a drink back. They were a different type of villain in those days, and they accepted that if they were arrested that was just part of their job. They were personable people, and when you get them socially they're personable people, as are CID officers and Squad officers. But the line is drawn: they go to work to commit armed crime and our job's to nick them.