History Series / CasesOfTheFirstDepartment

* TeenyWeenie: The rapist from episode "Phantom from Southern Town" was reported to have a small pennis. [[spoiler:The team couldn't use line-up recognition because his photo leaked out in the media. He refused to confess to all of his crimes, so Maj. Tomas Kozak had an idea to use the information against him. He told him they would measure it and release pictures to press unless he confessed. He did.]]

* CopKiller: Episode "Policajt na odstrel"

''Cases of the 1st Department'' (original title ''Případy 1. oddalení'') is a Czech series that premiered in January 2014 on [=CT1=].[[note]]public mainstream broadcaster[[/note]] The series is a PoliceProcedural inspired by 14 real cases that were investigated and solved in Prague and surrounding regions in TheNineties and TheNoughties.

''Cases of the 1st Department'' is a Czech series that premiered in January 2014 on [=CT1=].[[note]]public mainstream broadcaster[[/note]] The series is a PoliceProcedural inspired by 14 real cases that were investigated and solved in Prague and surrounding regions in TheNineties and TheNoughties.

%% * BluffingTheMurderer

%% * CopKiller
%% * CreatorCameo: Josef Mares, co-author of the script, is present as a uniform police officer in the first episode.

* AbusiveParents: Two murder victims were abusive to their teenaged son in episode "Key Evidence". The widowed mother remarried and her new husband beated his step-son. They also treated badly the woman's in-laws from her first marriage who live in the neighbouring flat in the same house.

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[-[[caption-width-right:275:The young one, the awesome one, LensFlare, the experienced one, outsider, incompetent boss and the tough one.]]-]

* {{Nepotism}}: Ondrej Kavalir is a young [[TheIntern intern]] who briefly observes the team and works with them. He is a son of somebody important from the presiding committee, the highest devision of the Police. The guys are not too thrilled because he makes lots of mistakes from the very beginning. He's not absolutely hopeless, but his last mistake is ''massive'' and he doesn't join the 1st department permanently.

* RedHerring: Used from time to time. For instance, in "Lab Rat", they find a suspect and everything fits together -- he works in a science lab, seems obsessed with dead bodies, he's a relative of the woman who works in a photo lab which was identified as the origin of the lead photo, his girlfriend got lost, he rents a secluded cottage,... They follow him, but it turns out he's just a wierdo.

** Zigzagged with major Josef Korejs. He's not a bad guy, but he just looks like a slightly weak boss, not quite pulling off all his duties as head of the department. However, he has his moments when his police sense is on and he offers good insight on the case. The worst part is that he's willing to suck up to bigwigs and his men ''know'' he will not support them in crisis. He also prefers the loyal over the competent.

* TrashOfTheTitans: Major Vaclav Plisek's desk is always disorganized and messy. Major Tomas Kozak often tries to convince him to clean it. In episode "A Policeman to Gun Down", they have to look though a suspect's garbage. Kozak jokes that he's pleased that he decided to clean up. Surprisingly, Plisek's home is clean and cozy, even though he's an old bachelor.
* TeenyWeenie: The rapist from episode "Phantom from Southern Town" was reported to have a small pennis. [[spoiler:The team couldn't use line-up recognition because his photo leaked out in the media. He refused to confess to all of his crimes, so Major Tomas Kozak had an idea to use the information against him. He told him they would measure it and release pictures to press unless he confessed. He did.]]
* YouHave48Hours: In episode "48 Hours", Capt. Martin Prazak arrests a suspect even tough he was instructed only to follow him and find out his identity. However, Prazak knew that he was about to attack his next victim, a frail old guy who has just collected his monthly pension from the post office. The suspect has no ID and refuses to speak. His fingerprints are not in the Czech database. They can arrest him only for two days without telling him what are the charges and they have in fact less than 48 hours because they lost some time in transporting him to the station and they have to prepare his release with a public prosecutor in advance. Their only lead is a train ticket from Kladno to Prague and the fact that he might be a foreigner from eastern Europe as he "might have hissed something in Russian or Slovak" when he was being arrested.

[-[[caption-width-right:275:The young one, the awesome one, LensFlare, the experienced one, outsider, incompetent boss and the tough one.]]

[-[[caption-width-right:275:The young one, the awesome one, LensFlare, the experienced one, the outsider, incompetent boss and the tough one.]]-]

The series was co-written by Josef Mares (a real policeman and head of the 1st department) and Jan Malinda who works as a journalist. ''Cases of the 1st Department'' can boast of being extraordinarily authentic and precise in the description of police work, slang, methods of investigation, co-operation with other police departments, public prosecution or forensic exprets in present-day Czechia. The police often know quite soon who committed the crime, but they have to figure out how to bust them, get them to confess and find conclusive evidence.

* CityNoir: Downplayed. Prague is not absolutely horrible and dark here, but the city is wonderfully shabby, gray, rainy or cold. It's noticeable especially if you compare it to Prague's usual idealized depictions set in sunny picturesque streets or beautiful historical palaces. Some murders happened in ghettos and poor neighbourhoods, and even the police building looks almost pitiful compared to high-tech sets of other police procedurals.

* TeenyWeenie: The rapist from episode "Phantom from Southern Town" was reported to have a small pennis. [[spoiler:The team couldn't use line-up recognition because his photo leaked out in the media. He refused to confess to all of his crimes, so Major Tomas Kozak had an idea to use the information against him. He told him they would measure it and release pictures to press unless he confessed. He did.]]

The series has a top notch A-star cast in the main roles, however, the perpetrators are often played by less known actors which adds to the unsetling feel.

* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Mjr. Plisek is the oldest, most experienced policeman who has been with the department over 30 years. He has excellent combinatory skills and he often connects old cases with fresh ones.
* BerserkButton: Mjr. Plisek gets furious when he learns that the case they're investigating was a practical joke. He's [-this-] close to beating the guys up because it's waste of money and effort.

** Subverted when mjr. Kozak's daughter wants to appease her father (who got angry because of a clogged bathtub) by telling him she will cook schnitzels. He says ok and she says she's gonna download the recipe.

* HeroesLoveDogs: Mjr. Plisek says he likes animals, and he thinks that a victim's disappeared dog is an important lead in the case, which proves to be right. He later adopts the dog because the victim's mother couldn't take him (she was a KindheartedCatLover with a flat full of cats). Brandy appears in several subsequent episodes, just being cute or biting his colleagues.
* HotScoop: Andrea Skopcova is a very attractive TV reporter and a single mother of two who dates cptn. Petr Andel. She's slightly unusual in that she has a mole in the Police Department who gives her information on open cases, and her reports often complicate investigation. She is also willing to shoot morally wrong reports, like accusing an honest cop of being dirty when her boss is not satisfied with her work that has portrayed the Police as helpful public service.
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: Luckily subverted. Mjr. Plisek is a heavy smoker and he coughs from episode one. In "48 Hours", he has a coughing fit and spits blood. All points to lung cancer, but it's something less serious and he's cured after an operation.

** A rather humorous dab at ''Series/CSINewYork''. When Plisek's is at the hospital, his fellow patient is about to watch the show on TV and says that Czech criminal investigators suck. Mjr. Plisek is unimpressed. He thinks the patient doesn't deserve to be opposed and doesn't mention to him that he's the cream of the Czech Police.

* HeroesLoveDogs: Mjr. Plisek says he likes animals, and he thinks that a victim's disappeared dog is an important lead in the case, which proves to be right. He later adopts the dog because her mother couldn't take him. Brandy appears in several subsequent episodes, just being cute or biting his colleagues.

The series was co-written by Josef Mares (a real policeman and head of the 1st departmant) and Jan Malinda who works as a journalist. ''Cases of the 1st Department'' can boast of being extraordinarily authentic and precise in the description of police work, slang, methods of investigation, co-operation with other police departments, public prosecution or forensic exprets in present-day Czechia. The police often know quite soon who committed the crime, but they have to figure out how to bust them, get them to confess and find conclusive evidence.

* TheMole: The early episodes feature an important problem -- somebody from the department is giving tips to a repoter from "TV One", a commercial station that shamelessly broadcasts it when they shouldn't and intrude and complicate investigations. Several likeable and less likeable people are hinted to be responsible. [[spoiler:He's a rather unimportant technician but he turns out to be a huge pain in the ass after he was transferred to other department.]]

* TakeThat: A rather humorous dab at ''Series/CSINewYork''. When Mjr. Plisek's is at the hospital, his fellow patient is about to watch the show on TV and says that Czech criminal investigators suck. Mjr. Plisek is unimpressed, but he thinks he doesn't deserve to be opposed and doesn't mention to him that he's the cream of the Czech Police.

* CityNoir: Downplayed. Prague is not absulutely horrible and dark here, but the city is wonderfully shabby, gray, rainy or cold. It's noticeable especially if you compare it to Prague's usual idealized depictions set in sunny picturesque streets or beautiful historical palaces. Some murders happened in ghettos and poor neighbourhoods, and even the police building looks almost pitiful compared to high-tech sets of other police procedurals.

* HeroesLoveDogs: Mjr. Plisek says he likes animals, and he thinks that a victim's disappeared dog is an important lead in the case, which provs to be right. He later adopts the dog because her mother couldn't take him. Brandy appears in several subsequent episodes, just being cute or biting his colleagues.

* PoliceLineup: Used seriously, with sheer gravity the situation requires. They make sure that a judge and/or prosecutor is present when during the identification. Sometimes photos were used instead of lining people up.

The series was co-written by Josef Mares (a real policeman and head of the 1st departmant) and Jan Malinda who works as a journalist. ''Cases of the 1st Department'' can boast of being extraordinarily authentic and precise in the description of police work, slang, methods of investigation, co-operation with other police departments, public prosecution or forensic exprets in present-day Czechia. The police often know quite soon who committed the crime, but they have to figure out how to bust them, find conclusive evidence or prove to the criminals that they are guilty. The series has a top notch A-star cast in the main roles, however, the perpirators are often played by less known actors which adds to the unsetling feel.

* RapeAsBackstory: The team suspects that the perpitrator in "Hatred" was raped when she was small. Her female lover ''was'' raped by an old paedophile when she was a teen (with other girls). He was Ms Fialova's first victim.

!! Tropes of The 1st Department:

''Cases of the 1st Department'' is a Czech series that premiered in January 2014 on [=CT1=].[[note]]public mainstream broadcaster[[/note]] The series is a PoliceProcedural inspired by 14 real cases that were investigated and solved in Prague and surrounding regions in TheNineties and TheTurnOfTheMillenium.

''Cases of the 1st Department'' is a Czech series that premiered in January 2014 on [=CT1=].[[note]]public mainstream broadcaster[[/note]] The series is a PoliceProcedural inspired by 14 real cases that were investigated and solved in Prague and surrounding regions in TheNineties and TheNewTens.

''Cases of the First Department'' is a Czech series that premiered in January 2014 on [=CT1=][[note]]public mainstream broadcaster[[/note]]. The series is a PoliceProcedural inspired by 14 real cases that were investigated and solved in Prague and surrounding regions in TheNineties and TheNewTens.

* HeroesLovesDogs: Mjr. Plisek says he likes animals, and he thinks that a victim's disappeared dog is an important lead in the case, which provs to be right. He later adopts the dog because her mother couldn't take him. Brandy appears in several subsequent episodes, just being cute or biting his colleagues.

''Cases of the First Department'' is a Czech series that premiered in January 2014 on CT1[[note]]public mainstream broadcaster[[/note]] The series is a PoliceProcedural inspired by 14 real cases that were investigated and solved in Prague and surrounding regions in TheNineties and TheNewTens.