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What is it really like to be in the police? In this podcast, I interview many police officers who’ve dealt with many fascinating, frequently dangerous and sometimes rather weird things. If you‘re interested in policing, this no holds barred podcast is definitely for you. **Warning: graphic content and some swearing** Sponsored by Aquila Intelligence Solutions https://www.aquilatransfer.com
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Welcome to the Foxtrot Whiskey Bravo (Flying with NerdyBeth) your host Beth will be sharing the world of aviation from my perspective. Buckle up and enjoy the flight. If you have any question just ask it's a open space to ask and gain some new knowledge. Tune in on the 1st & 3rd Sunday for Causal Sunday's. Then on the 4th Wednesday for Knowledge Wednesday's.
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International men’s grooming icon Matty Conrad has travelled the world inspiring countless stylists to be better barbers and better humans. Over the years he has collected a lot of great stories, a lot of friends, and a lot of friends with great stories. He’ll be interviewing these friends (who happen to be other top industry professionals) tackling today’s most interesting and divisive topics, sharing valuable advice on how to achieve success in a highly competitive field, and inspirational ...
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In this episode, I chat to Andy Fairie, who has retrained as a psychotherapist after leaving policing. He is also the host of the SFQ podcast and author of Listening Skills for Effective Policing. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1915713455/ref=cm_sw_r_apin_dp_PBTXNNHH7DSR1J3QPT59Iain Donnelly által
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In this episode, I had the pleasure of speaking to Dave Marshall, who recently retired after serving over 30 years in policing. Dave is the author of the book 'THE FALL OF POLICING: When Woke Cancelled The British Bobby' where he discusses the decline of British policing. According to Dave, over time, the British police have shifted their focus fro…
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***WARNING - This episode contains extremely graphic descriptions and should not be listened to in the presence of children*** In this episode I speak to Ex-Inspector Jack Frost who was trained to work with forensic scientists at crime scenes involving multiple fatalities. Jack and his colleagues were deployed after the suicide bombings on the Lond…
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In this episode I dive into the worrying rise in police resignations. In England and Wales, Home Office data revealed 3433 voluntary resignations in the year ending March 2022, a rise of 72% from the previous year and a rise of 196% since the year ending March 2012. Professor Sarah Charman from Portsmouth University has interviewed scores of ex-pol…
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This week I give my thoughts on recent developments in UK policing. Lots of signs that a new breed of police leader is prepared to make tough decisions, stick up for their staff and show some backbone!Iain Donnelly által
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This episode features a fascinating chat with Paul Franklin, the SIO who investigated the attempted murder of Vicky Cilliers by her husband Emile Cilliers. First he tried to blow her up in a gas explosion and when that failed he tried to kill her by tampering with her parachute.Iain Donnelly által
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This week I enjoyed chatting to Andrew Snowden, the current police and crime commissioner (PCC) for Lancashire. We had a wide-ranging chat about the work of PCCs, the controversy that surrounded their introduction under the Cameron/May government, political interference in policing, as well as hearing his thoughts on many of the current challenges …
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This week I had some of my own assumptions and prejudices well and truly challenged when I spoke to Skye Morden, who came out as a transgender police officer some years ago. The massive level of support that Skye has received from her police colleagues is in stark contrast to the level of hate that she has received at the hands of some sections of …
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This week I had the privilege and pleasure of chatting to Christian Plowman, who served many years in covert policing in the Met and then went on to forge a successful career working for Interpol and a range of NGOs tackling the illegal trade in ivory and products from endangered species in Africa. Fascinating stuff.…
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This week I go completely off-piste and chat to someone who I would describe as a friend, but who led a life that I knew nothing about when we first met. Craig Bulgin was outwardly a hard-working, professional builder and loving family man when I met him. It was only sometime later that he hinted that his life had not always been like that. This wa…
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This week I dive into the horrible world of drug dealers and organised crime in my chat with expert witness and ex-detective Ian Broughton. Illegal drugs are the single biggest driver of crime, human misery and violence in our inner cities and increasingly across once-peaceful parts of the UK. Ian spent a large part of his police career investigati…
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In this episode, I had the great joy of chatting to one of my favourite comedians, Alfie Moore, star of BBC R4 show 'It's a Fair Cop'. Alfie left policing after nearly 20 years to embark on a new career as a stand-up comic. As well as a highly successful theatre tour all over the UK, Alfie's show on Radio 4 is now on its seventh series. You can boo…
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Both new and experienced officers are leaving the police service in droves as a result of poor pay, low morale, weak leadership and political interference. Joe Crocker is now helping serving officers to understand what their options look like and how to present themselves and their skills to maximise their opportunities outside of law enforcement.…
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This week I chatted to Matt Johnson, who left policing with severe PTSD and reinvented himself as a successful author. https://mattjohnsonauthor.com/ His first book, Wicked Game was long-listed by the Crime Writers Association for the 2016 John Creasey New Blood Dagger Award and at the end of 2016 it was listed by Amazon as the highest-rated debut …
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Mental health issues are now reaching epidemic proportions in UK policing, and a recent academic report (Op Soteria Bluestone) showed that burnout symptoms for emotional exhaustion shown from a survey of officers are higher than amongst NHS staff during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic. Zane McCormack was a high-performing officer at the top…
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Sir Mark Rowley, the Commissioner of the Met gave evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee this week and it provided a fascinating insight into the bewilderingly complex job that he has taken on. The preoccupations of the MPs and their obvious lack of understanding of the realities of modern policing was alarming but not at all surprising.…
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This week I chat with Andy Conway, who has been planning and managing the security of high profile visitors, politicians and royalty visiting the 2022 football World Cup in Qatar. Andy had a long and interesting career in policing, running the Prime Ministerial protection team for a number of years.Iain Donnelly által
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There has been a lot going on as ever in policing, so I decided to give you my thoughts. Lucky you. You're welcome. I talked about the Iceberg of Ignorance (Sidney Yoshida)....here's a link to more information. https://andonix.com/uncovering-the-iceberg-of-ignorance/Iain Donnelly által
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In this episode, I chat with Caroline Goode QPM. Caroline was the senior investigating officer for the investigation into the murder of Banaz Mahmod. Banaz was only 20 years old when she was killed by her father and other family members for leaving a violent, abusive, arranged marriage and starting a new relationship. I really enjoyed talking to Ca…
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I thought it might be useful to address some of the many recent issues impacting the best job in the world that is quickly becoming the worst job in the world. I also give you some news about the TJF audiobook. Sorry about the Anglo-Saxon swearing, but sometimes you need to say it as it is.Iain Donnelly által
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This week I explore the good, the bad and the ugly of the new direct-entry detective scheme by chatting with Tom Murray, who spent the best part of 40 years investigating crime, before becoming a mentor to the new cohorts of direct-entry detectives. This scheme was created following a national shortage of detectives that was yet another unwelcome a…
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The subject of current police training has attracted a lot of criticism, latterly...much of it from me! I thought it would be important to separate fact from fiction. Therefore, I had a chat with my old colleague Ron Winch, who is the course director for police trainees at Birmingham City University, helping to prepare police officers for what is h…
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This shorter episode deals with the shocking revelations of widespread misconduct in the Met since 2013 and a systematic failure to weed out bad officers. https://www.met.police.uk/police-forces/metropolitan-police/areas/about-us/about-the-met/bcr/baroness-casey-review/Iain Donnelly által
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This week I have a really interesting chat with the very lovely Hannah Bailey from Blue Light Wellbeing. (https://www.bluelightwellbeing.uk). We talked about the most common reasons why police officers come to see Hannah for support with their mental health, and Hannah provided loads of great advice for anyone experiencing difficulties as well as m…
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This week I have a very entertaining and enjoyable chat with Neil Sinclair, who has led an incredibly active and interesting life; first as a professional rugby player, then moving into policing to work in a wide range of fascinating roles in national security and counter-terrorism. Neil then went on to a very successful career in the private secto…
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This week I had the privilege of interviewing one of my policing heroes, Ex-Detective Chief Superintendent Hamish Campbell. Hamish spent nearly 40 years in the Met police, most of that time investigating serious crime. He came under intense media scrutiny as the Senior Investigating Officer in the Jill Dando murder enquiry in 1999, which resulted i…
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This week I chat to Maggie Oliver. Maggie worked in serious crime investigations and helped to expose the serious sexual abuse of vulnerable children that had been going on for many years in Greater Manchester and most notably in Rochdale. Maggie eventually turned whistleblower in frustration that she was not being listened to, and ultimately decid…
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The last week has been a true baptism of fire for the new Met Commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley with the shooting of Chris Kaba in very contentious circumstances by one of his firearms officers on the 5th of September and the death of Queen Elizabeth on the 8th of September. In this additional episode of the podcast I try and take a balanced look at th…
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This week I chat to Phd student Mark Brown, who is studying the reasons for the crisis in policing in England and Wales since 2010, and proposing how policing could recover. We debate whether the destruction wrought by the Tories is a case of good old-fashioned stupidity and incompetence or whether it was a deliberate act of Neo-Liberal creative de…
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This week I describe my shock at finding out that I had worked with a serial child rapist, Anthony Smith, who was sentenced to 24 years in prison last week. I then have a brilliant chat with Jon Adams, who served in North London before moving his family lock stock and barrel out to Western Australia, where he is currently a sergeant in a town south…
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This week I had the pleasure and privilege of chatting to Jackie Malton, the real police officer upon whom Linda La Plante based her phenomenally successfully fictional detective Jane Tennison in Prime Suspect. Jackie is an incredible character, full of fun and fascinating stories from a very successful police career. Her new book was published yes…
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This week was a very weird (but enjoyable) episode, because I interviewed Steve Donnelly, my brother. Steve did 15 years in the Met police doing a lot of difficult and dangerous jobs before retraining in law and becoming a successful criminal barrister.Iain Donnelly által
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In this episode I flesh out the points I made in a LinkedIn post yesterday that generated tens of thousands of views and scores of comments. Here is the post https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6961584077950836736/ Also mentioned in this episode is a video of recent serious disorder in Wolverhampton Here is the video; https://www.f…
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This week I chat with David Howell, who spent over 30 years in policing, much of it in police aviation. After a bruising encounter with terrible leadership, David is now pursuing his passion of understanding what makes a great leader and a great team in policing and other complex organisations. You can find David here: https://ableandrush.com…
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This week I talk to Hannah Bailey, who found herself completely burnt out from a career in policing and also facing a life-threatening cancer diagnosis. She left the police and turned her life around to become a successful therapist treating people in similar situations in the emergency services, health service and the military. This was such an up…
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This week is all about investigating murder, the most serious of all crimes. Steve was a brilliant guest who has investigated literally hundreds of murders and I really enjoyed our chat. You can find his book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Murder-Investigation-Team-Steven-Keogh/dp/1789466423/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2KAEBFZ7468Z6&keywords=steve+keogh+murder…
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This year marks the 100th anniversary of the creation of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, in June 1922. In 1999 Her Majesty the Queen collectively awarded the George Cross to the men, women and families of RUC officers. Between 1969 and 1998, over 300 officers were murdered by terrorists and many thousands more carry the physical and mental scars of …
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This week I have a great chat with an ex-colleague Martin Brennan, who retired from policing as a Det Supt, having spent most of his career investigating serious and organised crime. Martin tells a fascinating story of how he was forced to rethink his entire life after a medical emergency brought on by working excessively long hours and dealing wit…
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This week I chat to my good friend and ex-colleague Duncan Johnston, who spent many years working as a protection officer for politicians, foreign dignitaries visiting the UK and members of the British royal family. I really enjoyed our chat and this will be followed by Part 2 next week as we had a lot to talk about.…
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