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
States of Jersey Police States of Jersey Police The States of Jersey Police () is the official police service of Jersey. It was established in its current form by the "Police Force (Jersey) Law, 1974" and consists of around 240 officers. This was some 130 years after the need for a full-time force was identified. A body of paid and uniformed town police was set up in Saint Helier in 1854, which became the nucleus of the Paid Police established to operate Island-wide in 1951 by the "Paid Police Force (Jersey) Law". The Paid Police was renamed the States of Jersey Police in 1960.