Garry Rogers played a key role in one of the UK's most successful
undercover policing operations, targeting the football hooliganism which
blighted the domestic and international game. From Old Trafford to
Turkey and Sweden to Sardinia, this working class lad turned undercover
cop infiltrated some of the most notorious hooligan gangs at club and
England level as part of Greater Manchester Police's groundbreaking
Omega Unit.
When the force extended its undercover policing operations to target
serious and violent crime, it was Garry who gained the trust of armed
robbers, drug dealers and a murderer securing the evidence to take them
off the streets, often for many years.
But after five years at the cutting edge of covert operations, and with
a new, inexperienced and ultimately corrupt officer in charge of the
unit, Garry found himself dangerously exposed to violent criminals
living just minutes from his family home. And when he turned to the
force for support he was met with a wall of silence, accusations, and
what one chief constable later described as a Masonic conspiracy that
eventually pushed him out of the job after 28 years. Now he's determined
to tell his story - the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the
truth.