Tango Juliet Foxtrot - the police podcast

Episode 88: The gruesome work of body recovery officers - Interview with Jack Frost

***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 London Underground in July 2005.

People like Jack deserve our respect and thanks for the particularly distressing job that they do.

Episode 87: Why are so many people leaving the UK police? Interview with Professor Sarah Charman

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-police officers who resigned recently from policing. Her findings are deeply worrying for the future of the organisation.

Episode 86: NX121 and the withdrawal of firearms officers from the streets of London

In this episode, I look at the implications of charging officer NX121 with murder and what this means for our safety in the UK.

Episode 85: Interview with Scott Hamer - Royalty Protection

After a break for a few months I'm back.

In this episode I have a great chat with Scott Hamer, who will tell us all about his police career and being a close protection officer for the Royal Family.

Episode 84 : Last TJF podcast ......at least for now

Life has been tough for the last while...so this will be the last podcast for a bit.

Episode 83: The Met withdrawing from Mental Health calls, and is time running out for the CPS and the Police Degree Programme?

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!

Episode 82: Attempt murder by parachute - Interview with ex-DI Paul Franklin

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. 

Episode 81: The Casey Report

My no-holds-barred assessment of the Casey Report. 

**Spoiler alert** I think it's good.....

Episode 80: The life of a serving Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) - Interview with Andrew Snowden

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 faced by policing in the UK.

Episode 79: What is it like to come out as a transgender police officer? - Interview with Skye Morden

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 the media and from online trolls.

This is her story.