在这部警察故事剧情/喜剧片中,奥斯卡最佳导演获奖者丹尼·博伊尔指导Channel 4最新喜剧《警察故事》。本剧关注一批伦敦警察高层，由《霍比特人》演员詹姆斯·纳斯比特、奥利维亚奖最佳男主角博迪·卡维尔主演。
2014年春天将播出一集试播集，九月播出6集全长正片。
伦敦警方急需改善形象，于是警察局长Richard Miller叫来美国新媒体领域的专家、公关形象设计师Liz Garvey（Brit Marling）帮助伦敦警察局的公关宣传部门进行改革。获得奥斯卡奖的导演Danny Boyle制片并执导该剧。Sam Bain和Jesse Armstrong撰写剧本。 剧名《巴比伦》有着多重含义：首先，伦敦市的别称就叫做「现代巴比伦」（The Modern Babylon）；其次，巴比伦在黑人英语中是对白人尤其是警察社会生活的鄙视用语；第三，巴比伦有奢华淫靡的意思，吻合剧情中「警察部门因丑闻而面临公关危机并急需改善形象」的事实。
American PR consultant Liz Garvey is hired by Metropolitan chief constable Richard Miller to help the police force improve its image. At the same time documentary film maker Matt Coward is shadowing Territorial Support Group officers Davina, Robbie and Clarkey as they arrive at a not very well-organized Kurdish protest march where Robbie has to remember he is being filmed and tone down the abuse. Elsewhere Officer Warwick accidentally apprehends an innocent mother whom he has erroneously suspected of being a drug addict. Liz's introductory speech is interrupted by news that a sniper is randomly shooting people around the capital and her disgruntled assistant Finn, annoyed at being passed over for promotion, deliberately makes her look stupid at a press conference by withholding information - as a result of which he is almost sacked. Liz discovers that the sniper is an embittered divorcee who is posting messages on Twitter, from which she locates where he is hiding. The TSG dump Matt to join the stake-out team, who defy Miller by raiding the house, Warwick taking out the sniper. However the success of the exercise is due more to luck than design, a fact about which Liz and Miller decide to keep quiet.
