PolicingTV wants to tackle the big policing and criminal justice topics in a new engaging and visual way. The Policing Insight community can now watch and hear stakeholders debating and sharing the latest knowledge, opinion and analysis through interviews, expert panels and informative series.
Former Durham Chief Constable Mike Barton shared his concerns over the impact of the Downing Street investigations on public confidence, the fear that the service has ‘inadvertently walked away’ from policing by consent, and his colleagues’ struggles dealing with ‘dim-witted PCCs’.
PolicingTV is anchored by Editor Danny Shaw, the former BBC Home Affairs correspondent – a journalist for over 30 years, specialising in policing, criminal justice and the law. His regular ‘Talking crime with Danny Shaw’ interview series uses his experience and insight to get to the heart of the key issues relating to crime.
Among the early interviewees is straight-talking former Durham Chief Constable Mike Barton, who shared his concerns with Danny over the impact of the Downing Street investigations on public confidence, the fear that the service has “inadvertently walked away” from policing by consent, and his colleagues’ struggles dealing with “dim-witted PCCs” – as well as how picking up over 1,000 coppers’ dog-ends sent an important message about policing standards!
Danny also recently spoke to former Met Detective Superintendent Shabnam Chaudhri, who was one of the force’s most senior female Asian officers, about her own 30-year career and the challenges facing the Met and policing more broadly.
Danny Shaw interviews Shabnam Chaudhri as part of his Talking Crime series – Click here to watch
Shabnam, who retired from the service in 2019, outlined the need for a Macpherson-style public inquiry into misogyny and racism in policing, and the opportunity to find a “completely independent” candidate – potentially from outside policing, who isn’t “already embedded” in the current leadership culture of the service – to become Commissioner of the UK’s largest police force.
The interviews with Mike Barton and Shabnam Chaudhri can be viewed now on PolicingTV, with many more to follow.
Manifesto for change
Also already available on the site is the first episode of PolicingTV’s expert panel series ‘Manifesto for change: Preventing male violence in policing’, sponsored by IBM.
The series explores in-depth a range of issues around preventing male violence, including the need for prevention rather than management of the problem, an insight into police perpetrators of violence, support for victims, and male intervention.
The series consists of six ground-breaking, 90-minute roundtables that explore in-depth a range of issues around preventing male violence, including the need for prevention rather than management of the problem, an insight into police perpetrators of violence, support for victims, and male intervention.
The series draws on a range of expert evidence from both within and outside policing. This first episode, chaired by Professor Louise Mullany from the University of Nottingham, focuses on the scale, prevalence and impact of male violence within policing.
It includes contributions from Met Police Assistant Commissioner Louisa Rolfe; Jane Monckton-Smith, Professor of Public Protection at the University of Gloucestershire; former HM Inspector for Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services Zoë Billingham; and Sue Fish, the former Chief Constable of Nottinghamshire Police and now a consultant and campaigner on police reform and misogyny.
National Police Chiefs’ Council Chair Martin Hewitt and Violence Against Women and Girls Lead, DCC Maggie Blyth, will be among future contributors, alongside Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, Designate Domestic Abuse Commissioner Nicole Jacobs, and Nazir Afzal, the former was Chief Crown Prosecutor for NW England and Director in London, who was most recently Chief Executive of the country’s police and crime commissioners.
Preventing male violence in policing (Ep1): Scale, impact and establishing a will to change – Click here to watch
Future episodes of the Manifesto for Change series will be published on PolicingTV over the coming weeks.
In addition to producing inhouse content, PolicingTV will be a platform to publish videos from other creators that complement PolicingTV and Policing Insight (subject to editorial approval). These will include recordings of third-party event sessions, academic and practitioner presentations, as well as opportunities for commercial partners to promote innovative solutions and technologies.
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