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 Investigation into the secret and dangerous world of international dogfighting. For a year and a half, a BBC undercover team operated alongside dogfighting gangs in the UK and Europe, capturing on camera the savagery of organised fights. The film also reveals how American pitbull terriers - a banned breed created to be the ultimate canine gladiator - have been sold by the gangs into inner city Britain.
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 Mark Thomas puts the arms trade under the spotlight in this special edition of Dispatches, asking how easy it is to broker arms. Working his way through a spider's web of vast and, in some cases, archaic legislation, Thomas unearths a series of dangerous loopholes, inconsistencies and, even more shocking, simple omissions that would have the most avaricious arms broker salivating with glee.
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 Sex Slaves is a gripping documentary expose inside the global sex trade in women from the former Soviet Bloc.
The film takes viewers into the shadowy, multi-billion dollar world of sex trafficking.
Part cinema verité, part investigation, Sex Slaves puts a human face on this most inhuman of contemporary issues.
From the villages of Moldova and Ukraine, to underground brothels and discotheques in Turkey where many women are trafficked and forced into prostitution, we witness first-hand the brutal world of white sex slavery.
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 In this episode, Ross Kemp travels to South Africa, where he meets members of the ruthless Number gang jailed in Cape Town's Pollsmoor High Security Prison. Kemp learns they subject new inmates to brutal initiation rituals, who then face a terrifying choice between joining their ranks or becoming a victim. Many of the lower-ranking members refuse to open up for fear of breaking a code of silence More..punishable by death.
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 British TV presenter Louis Theroux (son of Paul) parachuted into South Africa again, this time for the BBC, to look at the policing of crime in Johannesburg. The film focuses on the private security business, mainly the controversial Mapogo a Mathamaga, who mete out violence on the spot to suspected criminals ("an African solution to an African problem," says a farmer who has Mapogo on retainer). It also covers the clearly criminally compromised Bad Boyz, who "reclaims and secures
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Louis Theroux joins the Philadelphia Police Department patrolling the most dangerous part of one of the most violent cities in America. With gun carrying drug dealers on every corner, it is now normal for the centre of Philadelphia to stage 30 or 40 homicides a month. Embedded within the Philly rapid response teams, Louis feels a palpable sense of adrenalin mixed with frustration as police and the drug dealing ‘corner boys' take each other on night after night. Here is a community desperate for protection but unwilling to talk to the law enforcers for fear of street retribution.
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Ross Kemp on Gangs is a BAFTA award-winning documentary series shown on Sky1 then repeated on Sky3. On 20 May 2007 the series won a BAFTA award for best factual series. The show is hosted by actor Ross Kemp, best known for his role of Grant Mitchell in the show EastEnders. Kemp's character on Eastenders has been involved in several storylines involving gangs.
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