Culture of Jersey picked up on the neighbouring coast of the Norman mainland. One of the best known portrayals of Jersey on the small screen was the BBC's crime drama - "Bergerac", featuring John Nettles as Jim Bergerac as a policeman in "Le Bureau des Étrangers" (a fictional department, based on the real "Bureau des Étrangers", for dealing with non-Jersey residents). This was filmed mainly in Jersey, but storylines increasingly moved further afield to England and France. Jersey has two local radio stations, BBC Radio Jersey and Channel 103 The island's patron saint is Saint Helier. The established church is the Church of
History of the Ministry of Defence Police the various admirals-superintendent were also able to issue search warrants which, again, made life much easier for the police. Many of the traditions of the dockyard police and watchmen before them, were carried on by the Metropolitan Police. They continued to serve in the dual role of policemen and firemen; they carried deputations from HM Customs and Excise to assist in the prevention of smuggling, and in the early days they were still responsible for seeing that convicts employed in the yard did not loiter or evade work. The Metropolitan Police also formed a Water Police Branch. At Devonport Dockyard