Pocket Sergeant Podcast
Hosted by former police officer and award-winning app creator Paul Cooper, this podcast explores the untold realities of frontline policing in the UK.
Each episode features honest conversations with current and former officers, legal professionals, experts, and those with lived experience – covering everything from policing culture and mental health to groundbreaking innovation and criminal justice reform.
Whether you’re a serving officer, aspiring recruit, or simply curious about life in uniform, the Pocket Sergeant Podcast pulls no punches and gives you the insight the headlines miss.
Inspired by the app that’s helped tens of thousands of officers in policing, this podcast continues the mission: supporting those who serve.
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Pocket Sergeant Podcast
Professor Jane Monckton-Smith | Homicide Timeline | Coercive Control | Pocket Sergeant Podcast Ep 04
In this powerful episode of the Pocket Sergeant Podcast, Paul Cooper is joined by leading criminologist and former police officer Professor Jane Monckton Smith, whose ground-breaking work on homicide timelines is transforming how the criminal justice system approaches domestic abuse and coercive control.
Drawing from years of research, frontline policing, and academic study, Jane breaks down the 8-stage homicide timeline she developed—used across the UK and internationally to identify danger signs, protect victims, and prevent murders. She discusses the chilling patterns that repeat across domestic homicides, the systemic failures in police training, and why many victims never get the protection they urgently need.
Jane also shares harrowing real-world examples, the limitations of protective orders, and how policing and society must change to better respond to victims of domestic abuse.
Do you think you could be a victim of domestic abuse? If so, you can all the National Domestic Abuse Helpline on 0808 2000 247
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