Tango Juliet Foxtrot - the police podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

In this episode, I try and help people understand what will be going on behind the scenes as UK policing deals with the worst outbreak of violent disorder since the 2011 riots in England.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

The very sad Nicola Bulley incident needs to act as a catalyst in the re-setting of the relationship between UK policing and the media. This episode explores why I think this urgently needs to happen.

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.

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 was the first time that I had heard his full story and it frequently made for difficult listening.

Craig is a great example of how it is possible to turn your life around and get away from a criminal lifestyle.

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 investigating drug-related crime and became one of the most knowledgeable people in the UK on these issues. I learned a lot in our chat, and I'm sure you will too.

Ian can be contacted for training or his expertise at court at https://www.expertwitnessservices.co.uk/

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 book tickets to see him live here: https://alfiemoore.com/tickets/