Police Stations of the World

Crimes, Misdemeanours and Public Disturbances

A series of 4 x 52 minute documentaries, in co-production with France 5.

Episode 1: Davao / Philippines – directed by Jérome Bouyer

Davao City in the southern Philippines has a reputation for having the best police force in the country. At the heart of the largest town in south-east Asia, the policemen of the Santa-Ana police station transit daily between simple wallet theft and murder in broad daylight to domestic arguments and abandoned children, trying to respond as well as they can to the demands of the towns inhabitants.

Episode 2: Ciudad Juarez / Mexico directed by Béatrice Limare

At the USA border, the Mexican town of Juarez is an epicentre for drug trafficking, violence, crime and more than drastic humane conditions, and this, even more so since the terrorist attacks of 9/11.
There are many ways that they can be seen.
This film has chosen the most demanding, the one that consists of getting as close as possible to the realities, filming within the heart of a local police station, that of Delicias.

Episode 3: Casablanca / Morocco directed by Jean Bernard Andro

El Kebirs Police Station – downtown Casablanca Morocco – is run by Chief Inspector Zaid. If the affaires that take place here often consist of promiscuity and precarious living conditions, they also turn all too often towards comic tragedy, those of an everyday Morocco in full evolution that is confronted with tenacious traditions. This is a portrait without concession, of a Morocco where internet co-exists with djinns (spirits), One far from the tourist trail.

Episode 4: Kiev / Ukraine directed by Jean-Yves Chauchard

Darnitsky, 600 000 inhabitants, a residencial area of Kiev. One of the oldest towns in Eastern Europe, a delinquent’s paradise since the fall of the Soviet Union, has been on good behaviour. However after 70 years of communism and the lost hopes of the 2004 Orange revolution, the loss in its points of reference has accentuated the excesses: alcoholism, drugs, domestic violence, and theft are common to the everyday life of Darnitsky’s police.