Is your neighbor a fugitive and you didn't know it?

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A 55-year-old man, let's call him Manolo, runs a pastry shop in your neighborhood.

You've known him for two decades now.

A nice guy, kind, married and with a family.

And one day, the

Locating Group (GLF) of the National Police appears to arrest him for drug trafficking.

He was on the run from justice.

And your concept of Manolo changes in five seconds.

"The patience of the hunter is the wisdom of the investigator"

.

, chief inspector of the Fugitive Location Group,

begins to motivate his section.

Nineteen members, three of whom are women, make up the GLF.

A unit that emerged in 2004 with the need to create groups that would work to locate and arrest fugitive criminals.

They do this by collaborating with

González and his team have not rested in capturing those who circumvent national and international justice.

It is a job that takes months of research and planning, and sometimes leads nowhere, but they do not stop looking.

"You have to use a lot of imagination to locate the fugitive," confesses González.

Because sometimes, of course, he can be your neighbor.

Although there are times when they hit the right key and manage to find him:

, the Chief Inspector happily comments.

And yet, we do not know the work behind this section.

"Why not take it to television?" thought the General Directorate of the National Police.

And they do it like that.

Lights, camera and action.

Or rather: and arrest.

have opted for an

in which all viewers are immersed in the daily environment of the National Police section with the docuseries 'Fugitives', created by

.

This format has five chapters - the first is broadcast this Monday at 10:30 p.m. - in which fiction and non-fiction are mixed to find out how bad the bad guys are and how to stop them.

Some of them deny their crime and proclaim themselves "innocent" of any crime, others consider that they are "in their right" to circumvent the law.

The reality is another.

And this section wanted to show it.

Nicolás Ortiz, from La Caña Brothers, Elena García and Susana Alonso, creators of the docuseries, Fernando González, Chief Inspector of the GLF, and Jorge Ortiz, from Movistar Plus+Movistar Plus+

His work revolves around research.

And his mission, lock up the fugitives.

Obsessing over them is normal.

Above all, with those who have not yet been captured.

And one of them stands out from the crowd.

González affirms: "We have not stopped looking for

", a character who kidnapped, tortured, raped and murdered the

in 1992. But he is not the only one, since there are many more like him.

However, the GLF has important arrests such as

-accused of industrial espionage in Switzerland-,

-sentenced to 193 years for the Atocha massacre in 1977, although he only remained in jail for a year-, the drug trafficker

, and many more.

The most recent was the case, in collaboration with the staff of the National Police, which resulted in the arrest of a member of an

, since "many of the relevant information passes through this section and we distribute it", emphasizes the chief inspector.

This is because they preside over the European Network of Active Fugitive Search Teams

, and control every piece of relevant information on the most wanted fugitives in Europe.

Every case is a world.

With its peculiarities, its questions and its surprises.

That is why they must have a vest and a weapon in hand to run for their prey.

The creators of

, Susana Alonso and Elena García, have been there in every step that the GLF took to find the fugitive.

," explains García.

Because when this unit arrests the condemned, the satisfaction is indescribable.

Your job on that case is done.

And they go on to the next.

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