Life imitating fiction

There used to be a rather good BBC television series called New Tricks, starring Amanda Redman, James Bolam, Alun Armstrong and Dennis Waterman, involving a group of detectives assigned to the Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad (UCOS). These detectives looked into old unsolved murder cases. Now, according to the BBC news website (here), it seems Strathclyde Police will do much the same thing:

"A team has been set up by Strathclyde Police to investigate about 35 murder mysteries.
The Unresolved Case Unit has been tasked with re-examining crimes such as the notorious Bible John killings of three women in Glasgow in the 1960s.
Detectives hope new technology and scientific progress can now help to track down the murderers. "