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Is Special Ops: To Catch a Criminal coming back?

Special Ops: To Catch a Criminal (2025–present) — crime on U&Dave

The answer: Between seasons — last episode November 2, 2025, no return date announced yet.
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Genre
Crime
Network / streamer
U&Dave
Premiered
January 5, 2025
Runtime
~60 min per episode
3seasons
13episodes

About Special Ops: To Catch a Criminal

Gritty factual series revealing the work of elite police forces across the UK.

Formerly titled Special Ops: Crime Squad UK, this behind-the-scenes docu-series follows the investigative work of a variety of specialist units within UK police forces created to crack the toughest of cases. From cyber heists, romance fraud and people trafficking to drugs rings and murder.

The series boasts unique access to the highest-level detective techniques used to tackle crimes where ordinary policing has failed to make progress. This gritty but intelligent series reveals the workings of police operative units made up of the most elite detectives in the country.

Filming with numerous task forces across the country, Special Ops: To Catch a Criminal reveals the real, lived experience of the police officers involved, through exclusive interviews, archive, CCTV and body cam footage.

Special Ops: To Catch a Criminal episode schedule

13 aired

Aired · 13

DateEp.Title
November 2, 2025 S3·E4 Operation Swip
October 26, 2025 S3·E3 Operation Jet Stream
October 19, 2025 S3·E2 Operation Chatham
October 12, 2025 S3·E1 Operation Renaissance
April 13, 2025 S2·E3 Operation Mantle 2
April 13, 2025 S2·E2 Operation Ghoul
April 13, 2025 S2·E1 Operation Safeguard
January 5, 2025 S1·E1 Operation Inuit
January 5, 2025 S1·E5 Operation Checkroom
January 5, 2025 S1·E2 Operation Zori
January 5, 2025 S1·E3 Operation Earth
January 5, 2025 S1·E4 Operation Harlequin
January 5, 2025 S1·E6 Operation Napoleon