Detectives claim EastEnders has damaged their profession

By Ben Leach Published: 7:00AM GMT twenty-two February 2010

Archie Mitchell, played by Larry Lamb, was killed in the Queen Vic beer hall on Yuletide Day Photo: BBC

The BBC One array has been criticised for the approach dual illusory detectives have investigated Archie Mitchells murder.

Viewers have seen them speak about the box to Walford residents and even take bribes.

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But genuine hold up detectives pronounced the piece of DC Deanne Cunningham played by singer Zoe Henry is "irritatingly inaccurate" and is giving them a bad name.

Alan Kalbfell, who is a Detective Inspector with the City of London military and speaks on interest of the National Detectives Forum, said: "It is frustrating to see the traffic portrayed in such a bad manner.

"EastEnders is watched by a extended range of people, from immature to old, and they will think this is how detectives operate. It"s not.

"There is no disbelief this is deleterious to the profession. There is no approach that 99.9 per cent of people you do the pursuit would mental condition off deliberating an ongoing box with people on the travel if it could infer unpropitious to the case.

"Yet EastEnders have no complaint display this. It creates us see unprofessional."

The storyline finished last Friday with Stacey Branning admissing to the killing.

A mouthpiece for the Police Federation said: "We only goal that EastEnders viewers realize the show is utterly illusory since genuine detectives do not action similar to this."

A mouthpiece for EastEnders apologised to genuine hold up detectives but insisted they had consulted with military about how characters should be portrayed.

She said: "I"m contemptible if we have annoyed genuine hold up detectives but this is heightened novella and all the things that we show competence not regularly paint genuine life.

"We regularly have a military expert on shows similar to this that we go to prior to casting."