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Sweeney 2 Sweeney 2 Sweeney 2 is a British action film by Euston Films, released cinematically in the UK in 1978. A crime drama about the Flying Squad, a division of London's Metropolitan Police, it was made as a sequel to the successful 1977 film "Sweeney!", which was a spin-off from the popular British television series "The Sweeney" (1974-78). Some of the action in the film is transferred from the usual London setting to Malta. The series was based upon a fictionalised version of the Flying Squad. The term "The Sweeney" is derived from Cockney rhyming slang, originating in the expression "Sweeney