How Do You Fix The Met Police?
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.1 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley joins Matt to talk about his plan to overhaul Britain's largest force, warning it will be a 'bumpy journey', and Matt heads out with with two officers to find out what an afternoon answering 999 calls is really like.
Plus: Columnists Tim Montgomerie and Jane Merrick discuss whether the government can stop the small boats, Tony Blair and Keir Starmer, and whether you should rewild your garden.
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| 0:00.0 | Picture this, static cars, idling engines, angry horns, now picture you, zooming past |
| 0:12.4 | it all, light and breezy, ah, the sweet feeling of whizzing past traffic, book your train |
| 0:21.6 | journey via AvantiWestcoast.co.uk, AvantiWestcoast, feel good travel. |
| 0:30.3 | In 2004 Andrew Malkinson was jailed for life after a woman was raped in greater Manchester. |
| 0:37.2 | I couldn't find a way to demonstrate I was telling the truth. |
| 0:40.3 | But the police got the wrong man, who then fought for two decades to clear his name. |
| 0:46.2 | Today we told this court I was innocent and finally they listened. |
| 0:51.4 | 17 years, a series from the Times and the Sunday Times, listen wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:00.0 | Hello, this is the Webbox Podcast, I'm Matt Charlie, don't forget you can listen to me live, |
| 1:11.2 | Monday to Friday, 10 till 1 on your DOB radio on your smart speaker, or download the Times |
| 1:17.0 | Radio app. Right, coming up on today's episode, trust in the police has collapsed more than |
| 1:22.5 | a half of people so they have no confidence in the police in dealing with crime and there's also |
| 1:26.8 | been the avalanche of allegations and convictions against serving police officers for |
| 1:31.3 | committing terrible crimes. Coming up on today's episode, I've been out with the police |
| 1:35.6 | in South London to find out what it's really like answering 9-9 calls and I've been |
| 1:40.0 | being to smart roadie the Metropolitan Commissioner about his plans to turn his force around, |
| 1:45.0 | really fascinating interview coming up with him. Before that, as ever, we take a look at the news |
| 1:49.1 | with today's columnist panel. The columnists on Times Radio. |
| 1:58.8 | And we say a very good morning this morning to service commentator Tim Montgomery, hi Tim. |
| 2:04.6 | Good morning, good morning, good morning. I'm good for it to you. And from the IJ Merrick, hi, |
| 2:10.9 | Jay. Hello. No, slightly less cheery, cheery, Jay. We're not getting a jingle. Matt, I was looking |
| 2:20.7 | forward to some sort of jingle. You've got to be, you've got to be regulars for that. We can't, |
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