Tango Juliet Foxtrot - the police podcast

Episode 43:The world of Close Protection officers - Interview with Duncan Johnston

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.

Episode 42: Manchester Arena bombing -forensic investigation of a mass casualty terrorist attack.

In this week's episode, I have a fascinating conversation with Bob Gallagher MBE. Bob has had an incredible career, firstly in the Royal Navy, very nearly losing his life in the Falklands War of 1982. He went on to become one of the most experienced crime scene investigators in the UK. Bob began his career working on the Harold Shipman serial killer investigation and ended it as the lead crime scene investigator for the Manchester Arena attack that killed 22 people. ***WARNING: This episode contains extremely graphic and potentially upsetting material***

Episode 41: How do the police use technology to investigate crime? Interview with Leigh Allen.

This week I have a fascinating conversation with Leigh Allen, who is one of the most knowledgeable people in the UK regarding the use of technology to investigate crime. Leigh started using tech to solve crime way back in the 1990s and has remained involved in emerging technologies right up to the present day.

Episode 40:How do the best police officers think? Interview with Professor Jason Roach.

This week I interview Professor Jason Roach, who has spent most of his career as a psychologist researching how the best police officers think, how they make decisions and what differentiates the very best from the just average.

Episode 39: Falklands War Commemoration- Interview with Ex-Det Ch Supt Adrian Tudway

This week I want to commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the Falklands war, with an interview with Ex-Royal Marine and Ex-Detective Chief Superintendent Adrian Tudway. This was a genuinely fascinating conversation with someone who has lived an incredibly full life. I hope that you enjoy it as much as I did.

Episode 38: Undercover policing - interview with Shay Doyle ex-undercover officer and author of Deep Cover

This week I talk to Shay Doyle (not his real name). Shay worked undercover for a number of years against some of the most dangerous organised crime gangs in the UK. It's a fascinating and terrifying story.

Episode 37: How are extreme threat counter-terrorism operations managed today?

In the last two episodes, we heard about how drastically wrong a counter-terrorism operation can go, with the death of an innocent man at Stockwell. Many lessons were learned from that case and today these high tempo operations are run very differently.

This week I chat with Warren Barlow. What Warren doesn't know about managing these highly complex operations in real-time isn't worth knowing. He has designed and run hundreds of high-risk terrorist training operations and did it himself for real many times. 

Warren now runs his own training company, using highly realistic, immersive learning technology to put staff and decision-makers through their paces in a wide range of scenarios. You can contact Warren here: https://learn.interopltd.com

Episode 36: Death of Jean Charles De Menezes Part 2 - The Aftermath

This week, Adrian, one of the two surveillance officers who followed Jean Charles onto the Tube train at Stockwell where he was shot, describes the immediate aftermath of the incident and the impact on him and his colleagues in the days, weeks, months and years after this horrific incident.

Episode 35: Death of Jean Charles De Menezes - interview with one of the surveillance officers on the train

This was one of the most gruelling conversations that I have ever had. In this episode I spoke to one of the two Special Branch surveillance officers who were with Jean Charles De Menezes on a tube train in July 2005, when he was shot dead by Met police firearms officers, mistakenly believing that he was a suicide bomber. This officer has never been interviewed publicly before and in this episode of the podcast he describes the lead up to the shooting in great detail as it unfolded.

This horrific incident was subject to exhaustive investigations and the outcome of these investigations can be found here:

http://policeauthority.org/metropolitan/downloads/scrutinites/stockwell/ipcc-one.pdf

http://policeauthority.org/Metropolitan/downloads/scrutinites/stockwell/ipcc-two.pdf

 

Episode 34: Counter terrorism policing to primary school teacher - Interview with ex-DS Tom Squibb

This week I chat with my long-standing friend and ex-colleague Tom Squibb. We reminice about our time hunting terrorists in London and Tom describes his very unexpected change of career to become a rural primary school teacher.