"Pigs" was the first episode of the German-Polish “Polizeiruf” in which Alexandra Gisa Flake and Frank Leo Schröder were primarily responsible for the investigations. In the end, the old farmer's wife from the pig farm turned out to be the perpetrator.

In our criticism we wrote: »Such minimalism has rarely been seen among new commissioners. This is good for the case because you can concentrate on the essentials. Why bother with the habits of the police officers if they will soon be crushed by the nervous public service system?