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Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley in conversation with Trevor Phillips at the Policy Exchange in London, September 11, 2023
THERE is a supreme irony in the British police complaining about being filmed, campaigners charged today.
Writing on corporate social media platform LinkedIn today, London’s Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley bemoaned that officers have to work “in the glare of hundreds of people ready to film their every moment.
“There aren’t many professions where from the minute you arrive at an incident to the minute you leave, you are filmed and then critiqued by an army of armchair commentators,” he said.
Sexual harassment on Britain’s railways is rising sharply, according to the British Transport Police, yet too many women still feel reporting is futile. LYNNE WALSH asks why the burden of safety all too often remains on women themselves
To quell the public anger and silence the far right, Labour has rushed out a report so that it can launch a National Inquiry — ANN CZERNIK examines Baroness Casey’s incendiary audit and finds fatal flaws that fail to 'draw a line' under the scandal as hoped