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The Thin Blue Mind: End of the Year Review
Welcome as we review the year in policing 2022.In partnership with Policing TV, the leading police media channel.
The Thin Blue Mind: Steve Bradshaw
Steve Bradshaw is a recently retired Police Inspector. He has spent the majority of his policing career as a firearms officer before being promoted up the ranks where he became a Force Incident Manager, taking command of high risk critical inci...
The Thin Blue Mind: Lieutenant Colonel Will Meddings
In this episode we talk to Lieutenant Colonel Will Meddings, an infantry officer in the Royal Anglian Regiment. Throughout his career he has commanded soldiers on operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, in teams sizing from a 12 man patrol fi...
The Thin Blue Mind: Wellbeing within the Police Service.
In this episode we look at leadership and the associated topics of wellbeing within the police service.The Thin Blue Line podcast in partnership with Policing TV, the leading policing media channel
The Thin Blue Mind: Misdemeanours And Folklore
In this episode we sit down around the virtual fire and discuss our own police antidotes and those stories that have gone down in policing folklore. The Thin Blue Line podcast in partnership with Policing TV, the leading policing ...
The Thin Blue Mind: Police and Criminal Evidence Act.
In this episode we consider the Police and Criminal Evidence Act. The rule book for police since 1984 after the previous decade saw some massive miscarriages of justice. The Thin Blue Line podcast in partnership with Policing TV, t...
The Thin Blue Mind: Richard Horton, Nightjack
Richard Horton began his career with a short spell in accountancy before joining the police. Serving in the east side of Lancashire he performed several duties before becoming a Detective, a role he dedicated himself to for more than twenty yea...
The Thin Blue Mind: HMIC "Bad practises within the UK Police Service"
In this episode we consider the recent report by the HMIC on bad practises within the UK police service. It makes grim reading. What makes it worse it that it is not politically driven but based on solid verifiable evidence. What is clear...
Tango Juliet Foxtrot Podcast: Ex-DC Maggie Oliver
Policing TV brings you a new Podcast from Award Winning author Iain DonnellyMaggie Oliver worked in serious crime investigations and helped to expose the serious sexual abuse of vulnerable children that had been going on for many years i...
Tango Juliet Foxtrot Podcast: Steve Donnelly
Policing TV brings you a new Podcast from Award Winning author Iain DonnellyThis week was a very weird (but enjoyable) episode, because Iain interviewed Steve Donnelly, his brother. Steve did 15 years in the Met police doin...
The Thin Blue Line: Letter to the Prime Minister
In this episode we consider the current state of policing in the UK and we make no apology of the fact that we think it’s bleak. Of course that’s just our opinion as are the suggestions we respectfully offer up to the new Prime Minister.
The Thin Blue Mind: Andy Rhodes
Andy Rhodes is the former Chief Constable of the Lancashire Constabulary and the national lead for wellbeing for the police services within England and Wales.Recorded over Christmas 2016 and in a remarkably candid interview he shares hi...
The Thin Blue Mind: Trauma Informed Policing
The Lancashire Violence Reduction Network are a team of specialists from health, education, police, youth offending, probation, local government and social care who are working together to share best practices and connect services to tackle vio...
The Thin Blue Mind: Death Penalty
In this episode we continue looking at the penal system and discuss whether the death penalty has a place in modern society. The Thin Blue Line podcast in partnership with Policing TV, the leading policing media channel
Tango Juliet Foxtrot Podcast: Jason Roach
Policing TV brings you a new Podcast from award winning author Iain Donnelly How do the best police officers think? Interview with Professor Jason Roach.First aired on 23rd May 2022
Tango Juliet Foxtrot Podcast: Jaiye Warwick
Policing TV brings you a new Podcast from award winning author Iain Donnelly Jaiye Warwick-Saunders was the first openly gay black officer in the Met. What could possibly go wrong? Jaiye describes his career in this episode....
The Thin Blue Mind: Prisons
In this episode we will be looking at prisons, what is their purpose and are they fit for the job?The Thin Blue Line podcast in partnership with Policing TV, the leading policing media channel.
The Thin Blue Mind: The Real Prime Suspect
In a break from the usual discussions Dave Thomas speaks to Jackie Malton, a no-nonsense girl from Leicestershire who joined the police force in the 1970s when women were kept apart from the men. She became the model for Lynda La Plant’s charac...
The Thin Blue Mind: Firearms Incidents
In this episode we will be looking at firearms officers, the training they receive, firearms incidents and the post incident procedure following a fatal shooting. We are joined by Darren Ware. Former soldier and police firearms officer and now ...
Meeting PC Lee Broadbent, Chair, Greater Manchester Police Federation
On Sunday 18th September 2022, it will be ten years since Greater Manchester Police officers Nicola Hughes and Fiona Bone were murdered in a gun and grenade ambush after they were lured to a house in Manchester, in response to a false repor...
The Thin Blue Mind: Police and Crime Commissioner
In this episode we will be looking at the office of the Police and Crime Commissioner or PCC. Brought in to replace the old police authorities and make Chief Constables more accountable. But has it worked? We will be looking at this and providi...
The Thin Blue Mind: Police Pursuits
In this episode we look at the subject of police pursuits and how they could infringe the offences of careless and dangerous driving. There is currently no exemption in law to these offences and no account is taken of police driver training and...
The Thin Blue Mind: Mike Cunningham
In this episode Dave Thomas speaks with the then CEO of the college of policing Mike Cunningham. Recorded a while back just prior to his retirement, Mike is in reflective mood as he looks back on his career.In this week's NightJack piec...
