Urban Cops
Urban Cops (Korean: 도시경찰; RR: dosigyeongchal; lit. City Police) is a South Korean reality show broadcast on MBC every1, where celebrities team up with real life police to experience their work and solve crimes within the city.[1][2] The show is the second spin-off of Rural Police after Sea Police, which feature the same premise but in the countryside and coastal region respectively. Like the first two series, the cast are appointed as entry-level police officers (Korean: 순경; RR: sun-gyeong) and work alongside a team of mentor officers.
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 Promotional poster for season 1 | |
| Hangul | 도시경찰 |
| Genre | Reality show, Police |
| Starring | Jang Hyuk (Season 1) Jo Jae-yoon Kim Min-jae Lee Tae-hwan Chun Jung-myung (Season 2) |
| Country of origin | South Korea |
| Original language | Korean |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes |
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| Production | |
| Production location | South Korea |
| Running time | 90 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network | MBC every1 |
| Picture format | HDTV 1080i |
| Audio format | |
| First shown in | South Korea |
| Original release |
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| Chronology | |
| Related shows | Rural Police Sea Police |
Season 1 aired on Mondays at 20:30 (KST) from January 14 to March 18, 2019.[3] Jo Jae-yoon from Sea Police joined the cast alongside three new faces. They were appointed entry-level police officers in the Intellectual Crime Investigation Team at Yongsan Police Station in Seoul, shadowing them on their open cases.
Season 2, Urban Cops: KCSI, aired on Mondays at 20:30 (KST) from July 29 to September 30, 2019, with the same cast returning except Jang Hyuk, who was replaced by Chun Jung-myung. In this season, the cast joined the Korean Crime Scene Investigation's (KCSI) Forensic Investigation Unit at Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency.
Promotional poster for season 2, Urban Cops: KCSI
Following the popularity of Seasons 1 and 2, the production crew stated in September 2019 that they were discussing the possibility of Season 3.[4]
Cast
Main cast
| Name | Season 1 | Season 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Jang Hyuk | Episodes 1-10 | |
| Jo Jae-yoon | Episodes 1-10 | |
| Lee Tae-hwan | ||
| Kim Min-jae | Episodes 4-10 | |
| Chun Jung-myung |
Police officers
Season 1 — Intellectual Crime Investigation Team (Yongsan Police Station, Seoul)
- Team Leader: Lee Dae-woo
- Investigators: Lee Yoo-shin, Lee Woo-ho, Jo Kyeong-jun, Yoo Seung-ryeol and Choi Woo-cheol
Season 2 — Forensic Investigation Unit (KCSI, Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency)
- Unit Chief: Lee Sang-bae
- Team Captain: Kim Jeong-yong
- Team 1: Park Seong-woo (Leader), Jo Yeong-hun
- Team 2: Choi Pyeong-yeop (Leader), Jang Dae-yeong
- Team 3: Na Je-seong (Leader), Hwang Seong-yeong
List of episodes
Season 1
| Episode | Title | Airdate |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Our First Time Being Detectives | January 14, 2019 |
| 2 | You Are Surrounded | January 21, 2019 |
| 3 | Let's Go Till the End | January 28, 2019 |
| 4 | The Time of Dogs and Wolves | February 4, 2019 |
| 5 | A Better Tomorrow | February 11, 2019 |
| 6 | An Unfair Bargain | February 18, 2019 |
| 7 | Hide and Seek | February 25, 2019 |
| 8 | An Ordinary Person | March 4, 2019 |
| 9 | Veteran | March 11, 2019 |
| 10 | Extreme Job | March 18, 2019 |
Season 2
Synopsis of episodes in Urban Cops: KCSI
| No. | Title | Original air date | |
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| 1 | "The Beginning" | July 29, 2019 | |
| Chun Jung-myung, Jo Jae-yoon, Kim Min-jae and Lee Tae-hwan start their first day with the Forensic Investigation Unit (FIU) at Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency (SMPA) by meeting their mentors, who brief them on the FIU’s tasks. After lunch, they check the equipment in the forensic investigation vehicles. They reconvene for further briefing, but are interrupted by a case alert. Jung-myung and Min-jae are dispatched with Team 3 to investigate the theft of cash from an apartment. However, the case is closed as a mistaken report after the caller finds the cash in an overlooked spot. While packing up, they’re dispatched again to a voice phishing victim's report. Meanwhile, Jae-yoon, Tae-hwan and Team 2 arrive on the scene of a roadside death. | |||
| 2 | "The World They Live In" (Korean: 그들이 사는 세상) | August 5, 2019 | |
| Nervous about their first case, Jae-yoon and Tae-hwan do their best to help Team 2 look for potential signs of murder. Eventual autopsy results indicate death from natural causes. Meanwhile, Team 3 is at a public locker where voice phishing criminals retrieved their victim’s money just hours prior. Min-jae successfully collects DNA, while Jung-myung painstakingly looks for fingerprints. Back at the office, enthusiastic learner Tae-hwan is the first one up for night duty. Six minutes to end of shift, he's suddenly dispatched with Team 2 to a truck theft. He has his first go at photographing the scene and dusting for fingerprints, and finally gets to knock off at 1am. The next morning, the mentors are in early to prepare for the morning presentation to Unit Chief Lee. Arriving over an hour later, the newcomers scramble — Jae-yoon finishes his first case report, but Jung-myung races to finish his, minutes before the meeting. | |||
| 3 | "A Cool Mind, A Warm Heart" (Korean: 머리는 차갑게, 가슴은 뜨겁게) | August 12, 2019 | |
| Jung-myung submits a half-complete report that's heavily corrected by Unit Chief Lee, unlike Jae-yoon’s report which passes. After a peaceful lunch, Tae-hwan and Min-jae follow Team 1 to the SMPA Forensic Analysis Team and the National Forensic Service to request inspection of the previous day’s evidence. Meanwhile, Jung-myung and Jae-yoon are dispatched with Team 3 to a pub theft involving alcohol worth $10,000. The scene is photographed by Jae-yoon and empty wine bottles taken into evidence. As Team 3 wraps up, they’re called to a worksite accident where the victim has fallen to his death. The team investigate the rooftop for signs of foul play and later inspect the body at the hospital, where Jae-yoon becomes deeply affected. Returning to the office, they process the wine bottles for fingerprints. Team 1 returns late at night from an undisclosed case, wrapping up their day shift just 30 minutes before Jae-yoon ends night duty. | |||
| 4 | "Locard's Principle" (Korean: 로카르의 법칙) | August 19, 2019 | |
| The next day, the four arrive for work much earlier, but find their mentors already in a meeting. In the daily morning briefing, Jae-yoon is embarrassed when his report turns out to be full of errors. The first case alert is a cash register theft at a restaurant, which Jae-yoon and Min-jae are dispatched to. Meanwhile at the office, Jung-myung works on a case report with Tae-hwan’s help. Right as Jae-yoon and Min-jae return, a missing person case alert sends them right back out with Team 2. As the missing person left behind a will, they scan the apartment for signs of blood but find nothing unusual. Jae-yoon and Min-jae struggle with working in protective gear in the summer heat. The work day ends just past 9pm for everyone except Jung-myung, who is on night duty. The night passes uneventfully as he works on reports for dispatches that were not aired due to the victims’ circumstances. | |||
| 5 | "Even If the World Deceives You" (Korean: 세상이 그대를 속일지라도) | August 26, 2019 | |
| Tae-hwan begins the next day practicing fingerprint analysis through AFIS. The office soon turns tense with an alert about the discovery of human organs, but it turns out to be a false alarm. Tae-hwan and Min-jae then assist Team Leader Choi to obtain clearer fingerprints off wine bottles from an earlier case. A phone call about a building collapse in Jamwon-dong, Seoul[5] leads to the first activation of the forensic investigation bus, which Jung-myung and Jae-yoon board. Amidst the rescue operation, the team photograph the scene for joint investigations on the cause of the collapse. Eventually, the duo retreat to the office while their mentors work late into the night. The next morning begins cheerfully with the four practicing how to lift footprints, but they’re interrupted by a preparatory arson alert. Tae-hwan and Jae-yoon move out with the Fire Investigation Team to investigate an apartment sprayed down with petrol, where Tae-hwan struggles with the pungent gas fumes. | |||
| 6 | "Don't You Worry" (Korean: 걱정 말아요 그대) | September 2, 2019 | |
| During practical training, Jung-myung and Min-jae are dispatched to a car burglary, where they work hard to collect fingerprints and DNA evidence. Meanwhile, Tae-hwan leaves work on time, while Jae-yoon spends night duty writing reports. A new morning opens with a foreboding downpour, but Jung-myung has a good start with report approval and news of arrests made in his prior cases. The team's relaxing teatime is disrupted by a full personnel activation. Heavy rain has flooded a rainwater pump facility, with 1 dead and 2 missing.[6] While rescuers race against time, the team collect evidence for the accident inquiry. Tae-hwan and Min-jae work to identify the body, but struggle with the fingerprints for hours in the forensic bus. At 6pm, they leave the scene with heavy hearts. Meanwhile, Jung-myung and Jae-yoon, who were dispatched to another case of unnatural death, return to the office after dark similarly troubled. | |||
| 7 | "An Unfinished Story" (Korean: 아직 못다 한 이야기) | September 9, 2019 | |
| The next day is off to a rough start as Min-jae requests for time off, still troubled by the flooding accident death. Jae-yoon and Tae-hwan are also affected by a case where a man set himself on fire. Later, Unit Chief Lee checks in on them, concerned about the impact of the recent extreme cases they’ve done. At the office, Jung-myung makes his own sanitiser spray in the laboratory, while Tae-hwan proves his mettle as the “fingerprint king.” The Long-Term Missing Persons Team also visit to request a digitally-aged composite sketch of a child still missing after 37 years. After a weekend's rest, the four report for duty again on the hottest day of the summer. Min-jae learns how to do a composite sketch, while Tae-hwan and Jae-yoon have a go at CCTV footage analysis. A case alert disrupts the team’s lunch plans, sending Jae-yoon, Tae-hwan and Team 1 to a store theft. They struggle with working in a heatwave, which will soon bring an onslaught of cases too. | |||
| 8 | "I Thought There Was Only Darkness in the Night" (Korean: 밤에는 어둠만 있는 줄 알았다) | September 16, 2019 | |
| Right as the store theft team return, two alerts come in, minutes apart. Jung-myung, Min-jae and Team 2 respond to an attempted break-in, meticulously collecting evidence. Meanwhile, Jae-yoon and Tae-hwan prepare to move out to an unnatural death at Suraksan, but soon stand down when the victim is resuscitated. Later, just 10 minutes before the day shift ends, they’re dispatched to an unnatural death in a one-room apartment. In the crammed room and summer heat, the body has decomposed beyond recognition. The duo struggle both with the stench and the sad reality of the victim dying alone. Their work day finally ends close to midnight. At 3am in the office, a murder alert almost causes full personnel activation, but it turns out to be a false alarm. The four celebrities report early the next day, enjoying a hearty breakfast before the morning briefing. Soon after, yet another unnatural death is called in. | |||
| 9 | "When Life Speaks to Me" (Korean: 삶이 내게 말을 걸어올 때) | September 23, 2019 | |
| Jung-myung, Jae-yoon and Team 3 are at Hangang, investigating a body recovered from the river. Despite the stench of decomposition, Jae-yoon volunteers to enter the scene. An autopsy is conducted in a police tent and fingerprints collected at the hospital. Tae-hwan and investigator Jang swiftly process the prints at the office, identifying the deceased. In the afternoon, Jae-yoon is left alone in office as the others get called away by different mentors and inadvertently gets swept up in Jang's endless scientific talk. Later, the celebrities are dispatched individually with a single mentor for the first time. Tae-hwan and Jang’s case wraps up quickly as they discover on arrival that the offender has been arrested, while Jung-myung proves his thoroughness at the scene of a restaurant break-in with Team Leader Na. Night duty for Jung-myung proves uneventful until the final 15 minutes, when an unnatural death alert sounds. | |||
| 10 | "And? End" | September 30, 2019 | |
| Having left work on time, Jae-yoon, Min-jae and Tae-hwan prepare a barbecue feast for dinner. Meanwhile, the night duty team's dispatch isn't required as the cause of death was chronic illness, allowing Jung-myung to clock out promptly. On their last day of work, the four arrive in office early and have a smooth morning briefing. Jung-myung tests his memory against Team Leader Choi, and later visits SMPA with investigator Jo for an urgent fingerprint analysis request. Min-jae also wraps up the composite sketch he worked on through the week. It’s a quiet afternoon without cases, so Jae-yoon suggests playing the ladder game with ice cream for the department and filming crew on the line, which investigator Jo unknowingly loses alongside Min-jae. The team have their final meeting before the formal farewell ceremony, sharing last words with each other. | |||
Ratings
- Ratings listed below are the individual corner ratings of Urban Cops. (Note: Individual corner ratings do not include commercial time, which regular ratings include.)
- In the ratings below, the highest rating for the show will be in red and the lowest rating for the show will be in blue each season.
Season 1
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Season 2
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