Almost every month in New South Wales brings stories of police corruption and a police service under attack from both the criminals it tries to put away and the people it has sworn to protect. Are the stories we read just media sensationalism, or is the NSW Police Service in serious trouble? And if it is what's gone wrong?

Tim teams up with Richard Basham, a man with deep insight into the police service through his involvement in a number of criminal investigations, advisory boards and personal friendships with ordinary cops, to reveal the 'untold story' of the police service. To Protect and to Serve will take you behind the scenes of a police service on the verge of collapse ... and leave you wondering what can be done to save it.