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Policing in the moral maze

Policing in the moral maze

How should the police be held to account without becoming politicised?

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Melanie Phillips
May 27, 2022
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BBC Radio’s Moral Maze resumed this week for its summer series, and for the first show my fellow panellists and I discussed the police.

Around the country, the police appear to be staggering from one furore to another — from wearing rainbow helmets and “taking the knee” to failing to stop the Extinction Rebellion demonstrations; from the false “sex-ring”…

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