Force the issue: Can the Met Police ever win back our trust?

Public trust in the Met Police is at a nadir – with a raft of scandals and crimes involving serving officers having shook faith in the force. What’s gone wrong and can it ever win back the confidence of those it is meant to serve? Ros Taylor spoke to Kathryn Farrow, a doctoral student at Oxford University, who has studied the way British police forces work, to find out.

• “Officers do need to have a certain amount of discretion but the flip side of that is there’s often a lack of accountability.”
• “Especially in frontline policing, it’s not rare for officers to be off with stress.” 
• “I'm not sure to what point they will be able to recover that trust, they will have to show that they’ve changed.” 

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Written and presented by Ros Taylor. Producer: Chris Jones. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production: Simon Williams. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production

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