Miniseries · Movistar Plus+
Riot Police
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Victoria Luengo
Laia Urquijo
6 eps
Raúl Arévalo
Diego López Rodero
6 eps
Álex García
Alexánder Parra
6 eps
Hovik Keuchkerian
Salvador Osorio
6 eps
Roberto Álamo
José Antonio Úbeda
6 eps
Raúl Prieto
Elías Bermejo
6 eps
Patrick Criado
Rubén Murillo
6 eps
David Llorente
Rosales
6 eps
Thimbo Samb
Yemi
6 eps
Malcolm Sitté
6 eps
Tomás del Estal
6 eps
Mónica López
Diana
6 eps
Marta Poveda
6 eps
Chema Tena
Ruiz
6 eps
Alfonso Bassave
Serna
6 eps
Nico Romero
Aitor
6 eps
Carlos Blanco
1 eps
Antonio García Ferreras
Él mismo
1 eps
Javier Aroca
Él mismo
1 eps
Paco Revilla
Revilla
2 eps
David Menéndez
1 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Riot Police actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Riot Police reads strongest on Serialized, Character Depth and Bingeability.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
A fictionalised look into the human tragedy of riot police and police brutality in Spain.
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S01E02
López
The six riot police continue with their lives unrelated to being investigated. But the Internal Affairs team advances without discovering anything special. Only Laia believes that there is more than bad luck after the death of the immigrant. When the team leader asks that the investigation be closed and everything is about to end, Laia discovers the loose end that leads her to discover that the riot police deleted a video that included the entire incident. Although they deleted it to avoid being lynched on the networks, now that makes them look guilty. Just after helping to break up a violent disturbance in the dead immigrant's neighborhood, the six policemen are called to their superior's office. Everyone will pay the consequences for their actions. All except Alex, the nephew of a big boss in the body.
- Directed by Rodrigo Sorogoyen
S01E01
Osorio
A van of six riot police is sent to carry out an eviction in the center of Madrid. Normally two or three teams attend, but it is August, there are few troops and they must go alone. The eviction is difficult and hard, but just when they believe that everything is under control, the most violent and youngest of the six makes a bad decision that makes everything explode and a Senegalese immigrant falls from a height of two stories, dying within hours . The six policemen believe that they are innocent and that their bosses will support them, but on the other side of the city, an Internal Affairs team begins an investigation. Agent Laia Urquijo, the only woman on the team, senses that she is facing an important case and is going to leave her skin on it.
- Directed by Rodrigo Sorogoyen
S01E03
Revilla
As they face the reality of potential jail time, the riot police decide to take drastic action by turning the story around on the victim.
- Directed by Borja Soler
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Fran AraújoExecutive Producer
- Eduardo VillanuevaExecutive Producer
- Domingo CorralExecutive Producer
- Sofía FábregasExecutive Producer
- Isabel PeñaExecutive Producer
- Rodrigo SorogoyenExecutive Producer
Direction
- Rodrigo SorogoyenDirector
- Borja SolerDirector
Where to watch
Streaming
Availability verified against regional listings.
- YouTube TVStreaming
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