Detective Inspector Jo Walker leads Hertfordshire Police’s Child Protection Unit. It’s a gruelling and pressurised role – last year, her team secured 136 convictions for child abuse and cruelty. We meet Jo as she supervises investigations into a suspected groomer of young girls and into a case of historic abuse, where the victim is coming forward years after the offence. Complaints like this have leapt fourfold in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal and the work takes its toll: "I have faces and images in my head which I will take with me to my grave," she says. "You never forget a face...I'm tough but I'm not that tough." Through it all – and with the help of her ex-policeman husband, sixteen-year-old son and two dogs – Jo manages to stay sane and cheerful.
| Name | Type | Role | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sarah Macfarlane | Director |