Welcome as we review the year in policing 2022. In partnership with Policing TV, the leading police media channel.

Steve Bradshaw is a recently retired Police Inspector. He has spent the majority of his policing career as a firearms officer before being promoted up the ranks where he became a Force Incident Manager, taking command of high risk critical incidents such as vehicle pursuits, firearms and major threats to the public. But he also led another life as a budding actor and now retired, is free to fully explore his new career. He has appeared in several series aired on ITV and Netflix and has...

In this episode we talk to Lieutenant Colonel Will Meddings, an infantry officer in the Royal Anglian Regiment. Throughout his career he has commanded soldiers on operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, in teams sizing from a 12 man patrol fighting alongside the Afghan Army in Helmand, to a 100-strong company protecting advisors in Kabul. He now commands a battalion of 500 soldiers. In 2016 Will was one of the founders of the Centre for Army Leadership at the Royal Military Academy Sandhur...

In this episode we look at leadership and the associated topics of wellbeing within the police service. The Thin Blue Line podcast in partnership with Policing TV, the leading policing media channel

In this episode we sit down around the virtual fire and discuss our own police antidotes and those stories that have gone down in policing folklore. The Thin Blue Line podcast in partnership with Policing TV, the leading policing media channel

In this episode we consider the Police and Criminal Evidence Act. The rule book for police since 1984 after the previous decade saw some massive miscarriages of justice. The Thin Blue Line podcast in partnership with Policing TV, the leading policing media channel

Richard Horton began his career with a short spell in accountancy before joining the police. Serving in the east side of Lancashire he performed several duties before becoming a Detective, a role he dedicated himself to for more than twenty years. Moving back into uniform towards the end of his career he was a response Sergeant overseeing a team of young and eager police officers. But that isn’t the real story. Richard wrote an anonymous blog called The Night Jack in which he described...

In this episode we consider the recent report by the HMIC on bad practises within the UK police service. It makes grim reading. What makes it worse it that it is not politically driven but based on solid verifiable evidence. What is clear is that the Chief Constables have to own this report and deliver on it. The Thin Blue Line podcast in partnership with Policing TV, the leading policing media channel

Policing TV brings you a new Podcast from Award Winning author Iain Donnelly This week was a very weird (but enjoyable) episode, because Iain interviewed Steve Donnelly, his brother. Steve did 15 years in the Met police doing a lot of difficult and dangerous jobs before retraining in law and becoming a successful criminal barrister. He followed the IRA as a surveillance officer and was one of Salman Rushdie's protection officers during the period of time when he was at a very h...

Policing TV brings you a new Podcast from Award Winning author Iain Donnelly Maggie Oliver worked in serious crime investigations and helped to expose the serious sexual abuse of vulnerable children that had been going on for many years in Greater Manchester and most notably in Rochdale. Maggie eventually turned whistleblower in frustration that she was not being listened to, and ultimately decided to resign from the job she loved. She has become one of the most prominent campaigners a...

In this episode we consider the current state of policing in the UK and we make no apology of the fact that we think it’s bleak. Of course that’s just our opinion as are the suggestions we respectfully offer up to the new Prime Minister. The Thin Blue Line podcast in partnership with Policing TV, the leading policing media channel

Andy Rhodes is the former Chief Constable of the Lancashire Constabulary and the national lead for wellbeing for the police services within England and Wales. Recorded over Christmas 2016 and in a remarkably candid interview he shares his vision of the future, where the police service is at the moment and some of his own battles that have shaped him into the leader he is today. A fascinating insight into a senior leader within senior management. References: www.strongyoungminds.org&n...

The Lancashire Violence Reduction Network are a team of specialists from health, education, police, youth offending, probation, local government and social care who are working together to share best practices and connect services to tackle violent crime and its underlying causes. We talk to Detective Chief Superintendent Sue Clarke who is leading Lancashire Constabulary's initiative to tackle crime through a trauma informed approach. Joining Sue is Rose Latham and Daniel Wolstencroft, who t...

In this episode we continue looking at the penal system and discuss whether the death penalty has a place in modern society. The Thin Blue Line podcast in partnership with Policing TV, the leading policing media channel

Policing TV brings you a new Podcast from award winning author Iain Donnelly How do the best police officers think? Interview with Professor Jason Roach. First aired on 23rd May 2022

Policing TV brings you a new Podcast from award winning author Iain Donnelly Jaiye Warwick-Saunders was the first openly gay black officer in the Met. What could possibly go wrong? Jaiye describes his career in this episode. First aired on 11th July 2022

In this episode we will be looking at prisons, what is their purpose and are they fit for the job? The Thin Blue Line podcast in partnership with Policing TV, the leading policing media channel.

In a break from the usual discussions Dave Thomas speaks to Jackie Malton, a no-nonsense girl from Leicestershire who joined the police force in the 1970s when women were kept apart from the men. She became the model for Lynda La Plant’s character DI Jane Tennison. Feisty and determined, Jackie worked in CID and the famous flying squad before rising to become one of only three female detective chief inspectors in the Metropolitan Police. In The Real Prime Suspect, Malton describes the struggl...

In this episode we will be looking at firearms officers, the training they receive, firearms incidents and the post incident procedure following a fatal shooting. We are joined by Darren Ware. Former soldier and police firearms officer and now a post incident manager with Lancashire Constabulary. The Thin Blue Line podcast in partnership with Policing TV, the leading policing media channel.

On Sunday 18th September 2022, it will be ten years since Greater Manchester Police officers Nicola Hughes and Fiona Bone were murdered in a gun and grenade ambush after they were lured to a house in Manchester, in response to a false report of a burglary. As part of his Policing Friendship Tour, Policing Insight and PolicingTV Publisher recently met Greater Manchester Police Federation Chair Lee Broadbent, to remember those two officers. Bernard and Lee also discuss the broader challe...