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Podcast: The Bunker – News without the nonsense
Episode: Force the issue: Can the Met Police ever win back our trust?
Description: Public trust in the Met Police is at a nadir – with a raft of scandals and crimes involving serving officers having shook faith in the force. What’s gone wrong and can it ever win back the confidence of those it is meant to serve? Ros Taylor spoke to Kathryn Farrow, a doctoral student at Oxford University, who has studied the way British police forces work, to find out.
“Officers do need to have a certain amount of discretion but the flip side of that is there’s often a lack of accountability.”
“Especially in frontline policing, it’s not rare for...