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🗓️ 1 May 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Under lockdown, police have been given extraordinary new powers. What do the new rules mean for bobbies on the beat, and how will they change our relationship to the police force?
Guest:
John Simpson, Times crime correspondent
Jonathan Ames, Times legal editor
John Apter, chair of the Police Federation of England and Wales
Host: Manveen Rana
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0:00.0 | Under lockdown the police have been given extraordinary new powers. |
0:05.0 | Seeing police on the streets, ordering people back into their homes, |
0:09.0 | evokes images that don't sit comfortably with the British people. |
0:13.7 | What do the new rules mean for Bobby's on the beat? |
0:18.1 | We're doing things that we would never have expected to have done before. |
0:21.6 | I don't want to be challenging the public as to how many times they've been to the shops or where they're going. |
0:27.0 | Are some judges right to say this is what a police state is like? Will it change the public's relationship to the police for good? |
0:34.6 | You're listening to stories of our times from the Times and the Sunday Times. |
0:39.7 | I'm Manpin Rana. Today, policing a lockdown. May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get |
0:58.8 | 10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride so you don't have to walk home in the rain again. |
1:07.0 | Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. |
1:11.0 | Salz decorated her whole house in camouflage. |
1:13.4 | Lovely. |
1:14.4 | Even her dog Billy has a camo coat. |
1:15.4 | After her renovation, she transferred her other balances onto a new Barclay Card |
1:19.5 | platinum credit card, so she'd pay no interest on balance transfers for up to 29 months. |
1:24.0 | Now she's found a way to pay down her debt. |
1:26.0 | Sadly, she can't find anything else. |
1:28.0 | Billy? |
1:29.0 | What you buy is your business. |
1:30.0 | Helping you pay less interest is ours. |
1:32.0 | Check if you're eligible at Barclaycard. |
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