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Iain Donnelly

Why do so many senior police managers speak in jargon-laden riddles?

In the last twenty-four hours, there has been a social media post doing the rounds on Twitter and LinkedIn, making fun of a completely...

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Interview with Tony Long

Tomorrow I will be talking to Tony Long, the ex-Metropolitan Police firearms officer and author of the book Lethal Force Tony was...

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It's time to stop accusing the British police of endemic racism

We currently live in extraordinary times. It feels as if many people who live in comfortable, Western democracies have rather lost their...

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Why are the British police so bad at sticking up for themselves?

For many years, I have thought long and hard about the dramatic contrast between my 'lived experience' of spending thirty years as a...

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Five reasons why I wrote the book and started the TJF podcast, probably making myself a target.

***WARNING: Graphic content*** Why did I write the book, start the Tango Juliet Foxtrot podcast and stick my head above the parapet?...

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Line of Duty - When life starts to imitate art

The last few weeks have been really horrible for UK policing. We saw the arrest and charging of a serving Metropolitan police officer for...

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Time for a serious talk about British police uniforms

It struck me while I was listening back to one of my TJF podcasts with Kay, my wife, that I need to be as balanced as possible in what I...

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Bristol: You will never deal with bullies by trying to appease them

The events in Bristol yesterday were a crystal-clear reminder that the line that separates order and chaos in a democracy is a very...

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Is it now time for the British police to seek the right to take industrial action?

The events of the weekend in Clapham have been both depressing and predictable in equal measure. Depressing, because yet again the...