Needs to be reference to; Representation, Institution, Language and Audience.

‘No Offence’ S1,E1

• Created by Paul Abbott, Produced by Abbott Media
• Originally released in 2015
• 3 Series
• 21 Episodes

• No Offence was broadcast on Channel 4, can still be accessed on All4, it was also broadcast in France.

‘No Offence‘ is a mainstream television series in which the codes and conventions of the police procedural crime drama are intertwined with aspects of social realism. ‘No Offence’ is unusual in popular television series due to the dominance of female characters.

The narrative in Series 1 follows follows a team of detectives from ‘Friday Street police station’, a fictional division of the Manchester Metropolitan Police. The plot focuses on the team’s investigation into the serial murders of young girls with Down syndrome.

EPISODE 1 : PLOT

‘Dinah catches sight of a robbery suspect on her way home from a night out, but when she chases him into the path of a double decker bus, her candidacy for promotion to sergeant is thrown into question. Meanwhile, two young girls with Down’s syndrome have been murdered, and a third young girl is missing. Dinah notices a link between the cases, and it’s not long before the team find themselves running out of time to find the latest victim before the killer strikes again.’ – Wikipedia

The Manchester police force is used as a microcosm (the epitome) of society to examine changing gender roles. The focus of the case which features children and adults with Down’s syndrome, examining the position of people with disabilities in the wider society.