Force the issue: Can the Met Police ever win back our trust?

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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🗓️ 27 April 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Public trust in the Met Police is at a nadir – with a raft of scandals and crimes involving serving officers having shook faith in the force. What’s gone wrong and can it ever win back the confidence of those it is meant to serve? Ros Taylor spoke to Kathryn Farrow, a doctoral student at Oxford University, who has studied the way British police forces work, to find out. “Officers do need to have a certain amount of discretion but the flip side of that is there’s often a lack of accountability.” “Especially in frontline policing, it’s not rare for officers to be off with stress.” “I'm not sure to what point they will be able to recover that trust, they will have to show that they’ve changed.” www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Ros Taylor. Producer: Chris Jones. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production: Simon Williams. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Instagram | Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:20.2	police force in the UK with problems but its difficulties seemed so
1:23.7	profound and intractable that it's hard to see how it can survive in its current form.
1:28.7	There was the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving met officer, the endless stream of misogynist racist and homophobic
1:35.5	whatsaps, even mocking disabled children.
1:38.8	The strip searches of young girls at school, I could go on but it would take too long. What exactly has gone
1:45.0	wrong in the Met? How has its culture degenerated in this way? And what will it take
1:50.4	to turn the force around.
1:53.0	Catherine Faro is a doctoral student at Docks of University who's studying the police.
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