Interview #25 | Matt Calveley (Former Police Officer)

British Murders with Stuart Blues

Stuart Blues

True Crime

4.7 • 699 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

I welcome former police officer Matt Calveley to the show in this interview episode.⁣

With an astonishing career spanning three decades in the Metropolitan Police, Matt arrested over 1,000 criminals, covered a quarter of a million miles on foot and wheels and was injured more than 30 times on duty.

He retired in 2016 with over a dozen commendations, a People of Achievement award and the Livia Award for Professionalism and Services to Justice.

On London's front line, he dealt with horrific death scenes, served as a Custody Sergeant, provided jury protection during a huge corruption trial, qualified as a mass fatality specialist and once got bitten by an escaped squirrel monkey called Clive.

In his memoir 'Cops and Horrors: Secret Tales from the Front Line', Matt offers an up close and personal view into the life of a dedicated officer serving in one of the biggest police forces in the world.

'Cops and Horrors' was released on April 14, 2022, and is available to purchase here:

Cops and Horrors (Mirror Books) | Amazon UK

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0:58.2	Hello everyone and welcome to British murders, the podcast that focuses exclusively on British murder cases and serial killers.
1:03.5	I'm your host, Stuart Blues, and I have a very special guest joining me for this interview episode.
1:07.7	He spent three years as a police officer in the Metropolitan Police.
1:12.0	I'd like to give a warm welcome to Matt Calvley. How are we doing?
1:15.5	Yeah, good, thanks. It was actually 30 years, not three years, but... Did I say three? I thought I said three decades. I wrote now, I'm going to leave that in.
1:20.1	I wrote three decades as well. It serves me right for me now. Three years. That'd be a good career,
1:24.3	wouldn't it? Retired after three years. Yeah, I wish. Couldn't hack it. Couldn't hack it. So how did I say your surname right as well? I forgot to ask
1:31.9	you, Calvla. Is that how you say it? Yeah, that's right. Yeah, that's correct. I've had a few
1:36.5	horror shows with guest surnames that I've had to leave on the cutting room floor, you see. Well, most people can't spell it, but the pronunciation is not a problem.
1:45.7	There was a habit to put Calvalley.
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