COP: a journalist infiltrates the police

The story of a French journalist who infiltrated the country's police force, revealing a culture of racism and violence in which officers act with impunity.What happens behind the walls of a police station?

In order to answer this question, undercover journalist Valentin Gendrot puts his life on hold for two years.

He decides to undertake training and become a police officer.

Several months later, Gendrot is working in a police station in one of the tough northern arrondissements of Paris, where relations between the law and locals are strained.Gendrot hides nothing.

He witnesses police brutality, racism, blunders, and cover-ups.

But he also sees the oppressive working conditions that officers endure, and mourns the tragic suicide of a colleague.Asking important questions about who holds institutional power and how we can hold them to account, Cop is a gripping expos of a world never before seen by outsiders.