De IRT affaire(2023)

De IRT affaire is a Dutch docuseries examining one of the Netherlands' most shocking scandals: how a specialized police unit became the country's largest drug importer. Founded in 1988 to fight organized crime, the Interregional Criminal Investigation Team used deep undercover infiltration—known as the delta method—to penetrate criminal networks. The strategy backfired catastrophically. By the early 1990s, IRT officers were running their own drug trafficking operation, importing thousands of kilos from South America directly into the Netherlands. The series features firsthand accounts from the officers involved, revealing how an elite anti-crime force gradually crossed into the very criminality it was meant to stop. A stark portrait of institutional corruption and the dangers of unchecked undercover operations.