Bergerac (TV series) Bergerac (TV series) Bergerac is a British television series set in Jersey, which ran from 18 October 1981 to 26 December 1991. Produced by the BBC in association with the Seven Network, and first screened on BBC1, it starred John Nettles as the title character Jim Bergerac, who initially is a detective sergeant in Le Bureau des Étrangers ("The Foreigners' Office", a fictional department dealing with non-Jersey residents), within the States of Jersey Police, but later left the force and became a private investigator. The series ran from 1981 to 1991. It was created by producer Robert Banks Stewart after
Police services of the Empire of Japan in Great Britain. The military fell under the jurisdiction of the "Kempeitai" for the Imperial Japanese Army and the "Tokkeitai" for the Imperial Japanese Navy, although both organizations had overlapping jurisdiction over the civilian population. After the Manchurian Incident of 1931, military police assumed greater authority, leading to friction with their civilian counterparts. After the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937, police regulated industry and commerce to maximize the war effort and to prevent speculation and hoarding, mobilized labor, and controlled transportation. Civil police services were also set up overseas (in Korea, Kwantung Leased Territory, Taiwan, Karafuto, some