#130 - Peter Bleksley - The Government Has Surrendered the Streets
The Peter McCormack Show
Peter McCormack
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🗓️ 21 November 2025
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
Peter Bleksley is a former undercover detective, crime author and one of Britain's most outspoken critics of modern policing.
In this conversation, we unpack why trust has collapsed, crime has surged and what it will really take to fix British policing.
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TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 – Introduction 00:06:00 – Visible, Known, Trusted Policing 00:09:45 – Why No One Reports Crime 00:13:20 – How Bureaucracy Killed Policing 00:17:30 – Police Abandoned the Frontline 00:20:30 – Shoplifting, Drugs & Public Fear 00:26:00 – Women on the Frontline Debate 00:31:00 – Taser Policy, Safety & Reality 00:35:00 – Bureaucracy vs Evidence Gathering 00:40:00 – Informants, Surveillance & Undercover Work 00:45:20 – Why the PCC System Failed 00:50:00 – Sentencing, Prisons & Rehabilitation 00:55:00 – What's Wrong With Young Men? 01:00:00 – Outsourcing, Work Ethic & Minimum Wage 01:05:00 – Softness, Victimhood & State Expansion 01:10:00 – Indoctrination, Education & Marxism 01:15:00 – Immigration, Integration & Crime Concerns 01:20:00 – Political Class Is Failing Britain 01:25:00 – When Was Britain Last Better? 01:30:00 – What Would Fix Policing? 01:35:00 – Final Thoughts - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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| 0:00.0 | I have a huge amount of respect for those cops on the front line. |
| 0:03.0 | They do some brilliant work. |
| 0:05.0 | But by and large, they're not out on the streets patrolling. |
| 0:09.0 | The police will tell you they don't have the resources to do that. |
| 0:12.0 | And what we've got is the streets being surrendered and this plague of crime, |
| 0:16.0 | knife crime runs rampant, car crime, vehicle crime, all of that, that is making this place a worse place to live. |
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| 1:10.3 | Dot com. All right. Good morning, Peter. How are you? |
| 1:12.9 | Very well, thank you. I am, I'm very, I'm very much like I've ordered to this. I want to talk to you about |
| 1:18.8 | policing in this country because like a lot of other things, I'm worried about it. Are we in a crisis? |
| 1:25.8 | Oh, completely. Policing per se is in a crisis. |
| 1:29.8 | That's what I mean. |
| 1:30.5 | In so many regards. |
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