Jamila Blake was a character in The Bill from 1996 until 1999.
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Profile[]
WPC Jamila Blake, 28, was born of middle class parents - her father was of Bengali origin and a solicitor, her mother was a secretary in the practice where he launched his career. Jamila was a 're-join', returning to the Met after an absence of three years. She was an exceptional WPC with a very promising career, but disappointed her superiors by leaving the Met after four years service to enter a potentially lucrative telephone sales business with her husband.
After a couple of years of unstimulating work, however, she and her husband were drifting apart and Jamila decided to part company with both her husband and the business. She returned to the force and joined the Sun Hill relief in 1996 as Cathy Marshall's replacement following her tragic death months before.
Because Jamila hadn't been away from police work that long, she didn't undergo a retraining programme, but although fully versed in PACE, she found modern policing had changed somewhat in the short time she had been away. Confident, hard-working and ambitious, Jamila was never afraid to get "stuck in" and enjoyed a "black" sense of humour.
In 1997, Jamila was placed on attachment to CID. She followed up leads on a trivial car theft case alongside Jim Carver. Their investigations, however, lead them to a gang of armed robbers. The robbers got away but they got a name thanks to Jamila. At one point during her secondment, a nurse received malicious phone calls from a mentally disturbed ex-prisoner in which she alongside Geoff Daly made an arrest of a rapist. After three years at Sun Hill, she left in 1999.
In 2021, actress Lolita Chakrabarti shared her memories of working on The Bill in a two-part edition of The Bill Podcast.
Family[]
- Unnamed Husband - divorced
Service Record[]
- 1989 - Joins the Metropolitan Police
- 1993 - Resigned from the force.
- 1996 - Rejoined the force and transferred to Sun Hill.
- 1997 - Seconded to Sun Hill C.I.D.
- 1999 - Left Sun Hill.
Major Storylines[]
| Preceded by: W.P.C. Cathy Marshall |
Sun Hill PC 1996 - 1999 |
Succeeded by: Unknown |