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White knuckling it at the wheel of a police car during a chase, the usually calm Constable Grace Ellis (Si\u00e2n Brooke<\/a>) of the Northern Ireland Police Force cries into her radio to the command center, \u201cTell me what to do!\u201d Turning right or left at the next corner could mean life or death.<\/p>\n It\u2019s one of the heart-pounding Season 3 scenes TV Insider observed in production on the Belfast set of BritBox\u2019s critically acclaimed Blue Lights<\/a><\/em>, a great and gritty police drama in the vein of The Wire<\/a><\/em> that\u2019s already been renewed for a fourth season. The day before our visit, it won a BAFTA, the British equivalent of an Emmy, for Best Drama series.<\/p>\n \u201cGrace is a character that puts herself in the line of fire. She\u2019s not afraid, does the unexpected, and doesn\u2019t always tow the party line. She can\u2019t help but stand up for the right thing,\u201d Brooke told us later in the unglamorous storeroom of a pub, one of the many real-life locations all over Belfast that the series uses instead of soundstages. That\u2019s not the only way Blue Lights<\/em> keeps things authentic. Much of the story is in the cast\u2019s bones. Brooke continued, \u201cMy dad was a police officer. I\u2019d grown up not seeing that border between a civilian and a police officer. I saw that there was a person like my dad underneath that uniform. Reading the script, I was like, \u2018Oh God.\u2019 I think that\u2019s why people enjoy the show so much. It shows the human side of what it is to do this job.\u201d<\/p>\n