00:01:23.020But the first thing actually we wanted to talk about is we both ourselves have experienced this.
00:01:27.820You know, I've seen people get mugged repeatedly now in London and I don't spend a lot of time in London.
00:01:33.060And more broadly, we hear from our supporters, friends, people who live in London, that they just increasingly feel less safe.
00:01:40.300Do you think there's a reason for this? Do you think it's true that people are less safe?
00:01:45.000Yes, I think that's most definitely the case.
00:01:48.640And I actually think people don't speak enough about how dangerous London has become because they had enough. They have reached a level of detachment from reality only because they have realized they are speaking about the topic.
00:02:08.000you know they're bringing it up nothing really happens so a lot of people know how dangerous
00:02:13.160london is but actually don't talk about it so your friends i think are rather in a minority
00:02:18.780of people who still talk about that topic for example the new statistics saying that
00:02:26.020the crime in london is going downhill is going downhill only because people are not literally
00:02:33.920bothered to report it and i'll give you an example from my own self i um i don't have many many
00:02:42.080hobbies one thing i like a lot it's mountain biking i'm a big mountain bike fan uh so i bought
00:02:48.340me a brand new quite expensive mountain bike because i'm a big guy and i'm quite heavy so i
00:02:53.320wanted to buy a nice piece of machinery there after a couple of months got stolen i didn't
00:03:00.680report it myself why because i know it's not going to go anywhere so yes to answer your question
00:03:06.660they're absolutely right uh it's getting very very volatile uh it's getting very dangerous
00:03:12.860i've seen that even when i was um back in um back working for the met i remember people will be you
00:03:20.940know someone get their phone snatched and then suddenly you know people getting pushed away you
00:03:26.020know pushed on the floor and then getting their thoughts snatched then people branding knives
00:03:31.940and getting your phone away and i was i was seeing you know the the the violence was escalating
00:03:39.160drastically that's my personal view to be honest uh also i've seen that a lot of people started to
00:03:46.360you know criminals started to uh you know attack police officers absolute uh disrespect towards
00:03:54.120you know law enforcement and and anything of uh such sort so uh yes uh i think london is on a very
00:04:00.660very bad path and something has to be done immediately and the question that will be on
00:04:05.680everyone's lips is why is this happening and i think your personal story ties very much into
00:04:11.040this so why do you think it's happening okay uh from a police perspective i think a lot of officers
00:04:19.020they call it disillusionment with the job uh they understand in a way that they're fighting
00:04:27.540a losing battle uh i think for the first time in the history of the met uh voluntary resignations
00:04:35.800has surpassed people who retire wow and that's that's absolutely extraordinary and whatever i
00:04:41.940say here everyone can go and look it up uh i am here mostly because i want to speak to the regular
00:04:49.360member of the public you know for the taxpayer and ask them to go and check these things for
00:04:54.180themselves to actually realize that the situation is not it's not good at all so it's the does that
00:04:59.800disillusionment with the job it's impossible tasks i used to work in uh westminster from being famous
00:05:07.920Charing Cross police station. It is not exaggeration when I say that is non-stop call after call after
00:05:17.480call after call. It is impossible for you to keep on top of that, let alone proper investigate further
00:05:23.540on. There's some wonderful people still in the Metropolitan Police and I think Londoners are
00:05:28.840incredibly happy to have them. I have been inspired by such people. Probably that's why I
00:05:34.200last in the med so long because i thought to myself not everything is lost but i think the
00:05:40.580the amount of work is impossible nobody wants to join the police because specifically lately
00:05:46.040lately the the last few years you know there was a lot of bad media coverage uh some egregious
00:05:52.940examples you know if you want to speak about these egregious examples later on you know we can we
00:05:58.240can address that but they don't recruit and they're losing mostly the best people they have
00:06:04.360this is a recipe for a disaster and it's just matter of time before something happened and
00:06:10.780they won't be able to control it and i think deep down they know that i really think deep down you
00:06:15.740know the senior leadership of the metropolitan police realizes that so tell us your story then
00:06:20.660how did you decide to join the police why did you join the police and then what happened from there
00:06:26.520maybe just tell you know a lot of people were saying you've got an interesting accent just
00:06:29.880tell us a little bit more about you yes of course i am originally bulgarian and um i came to the
00:06:38.040united kingdom because um because of my grandfather to put it that way from a very very young age he
00:06:45.640taught me to read the classics so i started with uh yeah with russian classics um unbelievable you
00:06:52.120You have to read those to Jesken, you know, probably in Tolstoy and Gorky.
00:09:00.380And, you know, you're going to work becoming the best constable you can possibly be while attaining to this university degree and, you know, even further fulfill your professional, you know, goals.
00:09:15.840I don't think to myself, that sounds very nice. In my head, I'm thinking this will be probably something very well related to the legislations, which a constable most definitely needs to know inside out.
00:09:30.080that's absolutely paramount so i thought to myself okay you know that's great i'm happy
00:09:34.660i come to london i find myself a place it was a little bit of a covid we had a few lectures
00:09:39.340online and then eventually we started going to university and this is the first time when i was
00:09:47.400starting to think this is not very well conducted brand new building in in the city of london east
00:09:56.160india um i can name it i was assigned to a university called anglia ruskin university
00:10:03.200so we go there and sometimes in the beginning i know it's the beginning we're the first course you
00:10:08.320know they used to call us also the guinea pigs and please bear that in mind because it will become
00:10:13.360very relevant later on so we go there in the beginning sometimes the internet wasn't working
00:10:18.960very well well you know it's a brand new building that's absolutely fine then uh guys you are in room
00:10:24.48010 oh no no no guys i'm very very sorry you're in room 12 oh i apologize you're in room 15 you know
00:10:31.700and i'm thinking to myself um this is all paid with taxpayers money millions upon millions of
00:10:38.840pounds of pounds are implemented into that program and i understand we are the first class uh but i
00:10:45.720think there must be some expectations from an establishment which is paid by taxpayers money
00:10:53.020to be adequately prepared to make the program, you know, relative and, you know, smooth, as smooth as possible.
00:11:03.080Anyway, you know, those things, they were a little bit strange.
00:11:07.540But then we started having some lectures and the materials given to us,
00:11:15.360I think a lot of it has no relevance with the training of a frontline police constable.
00:11:23.020specifically in the beginning of their career for example um they used to teach us theories
00:11:29.960such as broken window theory well that that's okay maybe for someone if if someone wants to
00:11:36.260expand in their professional conduct in the future to come as a criminologist maybe they can look
00:11:42.280upon that in the fullness of time but not at the moment you need to know how legislations are
00:11:50.100presented and how legislations are presented in circumstances in which a constable may happen
00:11:58.600to be part of you know was that a burglary was that theft was that robbery do you understand
00:12:04.600what to do you know it should be more police oriented specifically about the job not about
00:12:09.860theories. Then we had one training in which one of the questions asked of us was as follows.
00:12:21.820How treating everyone equally would potentially lead to inequality? You know, this is a little
00:12:29.480bit Orwellian. Yes, yes, this is a little bit Orwellian. I'm looking at that and I'm thinking
00:12:34.760officers police officers in training uh told that question in a very very interesting uh
00:12:42.980very interesting wording you know and it seems to me it goes against uh the very core principles of
00:12:49.040impartiality you know it makes you think oh my god what do you mean i'm treating everyone equally
00:12:55.200and might lead to inequality it's very very very confusing very very confusing and i think this is
00:13:00.500extraordinary bad thing to introduce to officers specifically some of my colleagues were very very
00:13:05.840young people you know in their 20s and i'm thinking they're getting confused here and uh i thought to
00:13:11.860myself this is this is crazy i don't want to be part of that you know this is waste of taxpayers
00:13:15.900money i want to be a police officer people are getting robbed people are getting stopped selling
00:13:21.720drugs fights all over the place let me be let me get off this course and let me specialize you know
00:13:27.540let me just be the officer i want it to be to protect this city and i truly mean that from the
00:13:32.740heart anyway so i was very very lucky because my class my class was actually very outspoken about
00:13:40.820that on few occasions we actually made it very very clear the whole class that we want to be
00:13:45.940taken off this course guess what we were told on many many many occasions guys you either do this
00:13:56.720or you're going to lose your job i want everyone that will be watching the show just to think for
00:14:04.440a second if they think it's appropriate to tell a police officer in training that if you do this
00:14:12.140if you don't do this i'm sorry you're going to lose your job that's coercion to the best i think
00:14:18.420to the max this is this is um really really really really bad and when they said that quite a few
00:14:24.280times i was looking around me and i could see the faces of my colleagues they were so gloomy
00:14:31.500you know they have nothing to say about that and dimit just interject one thing i think it's
00:14:37.860important to say that the one of the problems is that having a university degree was made a
00:14:44.400requirement for police officers absolutely and this is why you're all sitting doing this course
00:14:48.880yes i imagine most of you would rather just be out there being given practical skills to do
00:14:54.140with how to police in a heartbeat right in a heartbeat yes yeah uh and they used to say that
00:14:59.820quite a few times you know guys if you don't do this you're going to lose your job however
00:15:04.760a few days after that they'll come and they'll say you know something don't worry guys you're
00:15:10.220the first class you're going to pass and i'm sitting there i'm thinking this is uh this is
00:15:15.340extraordinary thing to say um i really was uh that was bewildering oh don't worry guys you know
00:15:20.920you know you're the first class you know yeah we have made some mistakes but you are the guinea
00:15:26.140pigs like i've mentioned in the beginning of our conversation and i'm thinking to myself this is
00:15:31.440this is extraordinary conduct you know if if this is a serious university uh you know uh i don't
00:15:39.580think they'll be acting like that you know there will be a dialogue there will be a discourse
00:15:43.400a proper discourse of why we actually don't want to be on that course not be taught where we have
00:15:49.580to do it or you're losing your job but um that was no that was not the most extraordinary thing
00:15:55.860we have been told on few occasions and i'm not exaggerating and if some of my colleagues are
00:16:03.160watching that i beg of them to come forward and say the same thing and i'm already i already
00:16:08.060spoken to one of them and he said yes demi i clearly clearly remember that on one occasion
00:16:14.140at least the lecturer who was supposed to deliver a material to us read that material to us said
00:16:21.600she looked at the you know the powerpoint and she said and i quote oh my god who wrote this
00:16:29.480please guys don't shoot the messenger i'm only here to read you that and i'm looking around me
00:16:36.740I'm thinking, am I drinking crazy peels?
00:16:40.440A lecturer openly mocking the very same material
00:18:00.940So, I write everything I told you in the letter, and I specifically said to them, I truly think it is indeed an exceptional circumstance for someone to mock the very same material they're going to read as teachers. That's extraordinary.
00:18:16.800uh my application uh wasn't uh adequately uh under the umbrella of um exceptional circumstances and
00:18:28.980i was told that i have to continue with that course then uh in a little bit more strong
00:18:35.880worded email from my uh site i said i am not doing this and that's that you know and then
00:18:44.040Then after I sent that email, I received an email from another external company, which
00:18:51.480was given the contract initially, and that external company has given the four universities
00:33:57.920I'm here to speak only about frontline policing.
00:34:00.700you have to be most definitely in my opinion above average when it comes to uh an average
00:34:09.400fitness test what an average male can do or a female some of uh one of the fittest police
00:34:16.280officer i've ever worked with was a female she was always downstairs with uh with me in the gym
00:34:20.800she was incredible but i don't know what is stopping them i think i have a theory what is
00:34:30.000stopping them a very good friend of mine who is still in the police he's there i mean a few decades
00:34:37.680now told me that a lot of people come and when they see the the horrible circumstances of what
00:34:43.600policing means they become very very cynical not only their approach uh in work but uh you know in
00:34:51.180their personal lives and i think he's actually correct it takes a lot of effort uh to go to the
00:34:59.080gym it takes a lot of effort to be immaculate every single day and in my opinion being a police
00:35:04.500officer holding that uh incredibly important role in london it is the demanding position
00:35:11.260and if you're not ready to reach that level perhaps perhaps you can go home you can speak
00:35:19.180to someone in work and say to them you know buddy i i don't think i'm i'm the best version of myself
00:35:26.380let me let me get let me get some help what can i do you know uh i'm always giving people the
00:35:32.320benefit of the doubt i'll never say you know that job is not for you no no no never i want to help
00:35:36.700you out buddy but you need to do it on your own and like you said yes um i quite often go to uh
00:35:44.060central london and uh uh you know i walk past by people and um when there's a police guy and
00:35:51.580suddenly few officers looking like you just described them come out i can just hear the
00:35:56.620public oh my god look at them i mean it's uh it's actually quite dangerous because uh uh one
00:36:03.660gentleman uh was uh walking and he saw these officers having a coffee and he said they look
00:36:09.300like a caricature in uniforms and it's not only you it's it's it's it's a quite quite of a quite
00:36:17.720of a situation, and that situation can only be addressed within the individuals to begin with.
00:36:23.120However, the institution is quite difficult to inspire them to be that best version of themselves.
00:36:33.040But surely, Dimitar, this comes from the top. It's the people at the top who set the standards
00:36:37.940of any organization. Because if you don't set the standards at the top, then look, there's some
00:36:43.440people like yourself who are self-motivated, who are really passionate, but there are other people
00:36:49.260who are just there because it's a job. And if you let standards slip, then it's going to affect
00:36:55.240everything and everyone. To me, this is a crisis of leadership, isn't it?
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00:38:28.020It is definitely a crisis of leadership. And let's speak about leadership indeed. I think, I don't want to offend anyone in the senior leadership of the Metropolitan Police. There's some lovely, lovely, extraordinary great people there.
00:38:48.540But in general, I think they have reached a level of astonishingly being capable of self-deception.
00:39:01.480And I call that the magic Excel document.
00:39:05.720We need 10 people to go to that place and we need 20 people to go to that protest.
00:39:14.560Let's see how we can manage the numbers.
00:39:25.020And I always thought to myself, these people in these positions of so much power and decision making, they should know better than anyone else.
00:40:12.240I think some of them understand that. And I would like to say that quite a few of them understand that quite well. But why nothing is done, I think it's because the politics are so complex on that level.
00:40:26.880So I think the police needs rebuilding from scratch, not today, tomorrow, before it's too late.
00:40:42.440It has to be solely based on the pillion principles.
00:40:51.800Well, for example, treat everyone equally. I mean, treat everyone equally. Honesty, integrity, the rule of law, be impartial. That's very, very important.
00:41:11.100I think impartiality has gone a little bit downhill because officers like this document I saw in this document, I told you, I saw in one of the trainings, you know, saying that treating everyone equally can lead to unequal outcome.
00:41:52.540I think you should exercise more discretion, of course, based on your impartial approach.
00:41:59.340If someone steals a sandwich because someone has nothing to eat, of course, you're going to give them that discretion and you're going to treat them differently if someone just steals a sandwich because they can't be bothered, you know, to pay.
00:42:13.960In that sense, I understand, yes, maybe your treatment according to the particular circumstances might be different, but discretion has gone.
00:45:31.120They were very, very clever with this.
00:45:33.140gave us a white piece of paper okay and they say guys this is anonymous you don't have to write
00:45:39.220your name just write down if you think you ever had some privileges and uh i uh took that piece
00:45:47.380of paper and i wrote that i'm bulgarian my ancestors were four and a half century under
00:45:54.180the ottoman empire some of the savageries have been well documented from journalists from france
00:46:01.380to russia and the united states i have more privileges and i gave it to them i don't know
00:46:07.140what happened with that piece of paper but it was the most bizarre thing that i've ever encountered
00:46:12.520in my life what do you think was the point of that exercise did you get a sense of what they're
00:46:16.620trying to achieve by the conversation about blm by the conversation about privilege what what is
00:46:22.060it that they wanted you to learn i think this is this is my opinion i might be wrong but i think
00:46:27.380giving someone this piece of paper and asking that question is solely reading the room to what
00:46:36.260extent some of the people here might think they might have some privileges. And if someone has
00:46:42.700put a privilege or something like that, we need to address it. We need to train them. Maybe we
00:46:51.040need to train people that haven't put that they have any privileges. Maybe they cannot see it
00:46:55.720That you have a privilege and you can't recognize it, you know, that's what I think.
00:47:00.100I think it's way more sinister than that without speaking in depth of what exactly you mean someone has a privilege.
00:47:09.780I mean, this is a conversation that we can have here for hours on end.
00:47:14.360It's quite extraordinary to introduce that out of the blue on a white piece of paper and just give it to frontline police officers who need to go back to the street and, you know,
00:47:23.340tackle criminals, you know, and wrestle with them on the floor. What privileges are you talking
00:47:29.260about? Jesus Christ. Yeah. It's so extraordinary. I guess what I'm getting at, trying to understand,
00:47:36.460not getting at, I'm trying to understand is what the truth is about the idea that police officers
00:47:43.860have been trained now for some years to treat different people differently. Is this something
00:47:49.740that you see or saw, whether on the front line or in your training or anything?
00:47:54.340And I'm open to the possibility that maybe it's exaggerated or maybe it's not true,
00:47:57.800but I'm really trying to understand what your perspective is on it.
00:48:01.840Well, this document was obviously introduced to some police forces.
00:48:07.100The question which was introduced to us, that definitely was in Augusta,
00:48:12.740I think when you introduce fundamentally such incredibly difficult topics without very much explaining them, you're putting a seed of questioning.
00:48:32.980The person starts questioning themselves, do everything I know and do actually might be biased?
00:48:41.240it's confusing them if you suspect let's say for the sake of argument that someone may be biased
00:48:49.080or have some inclination towards treating different people differently maybe people that
00:48:55.860look like him just for the sake of argument you may have a training i mean the training is already
00:49:03.880there the the police fundamentals i i like i said they're already there transparency honestly
00:49:10.260in honesty you know impartiality you don't need to make these young people questioning themselves
00:49:17.420all the time because eventually they will be confused and eventually when you confuse sometimes
00:49:23.740in a situation which requires your immediate professional attention as in the case of may he
00:49:31.520rest in peace this young man henry novak may lead to uh tragic outcomes and um that thing with i
00:49:41.000don't think so mate makes my blood boil to begin with nobody should ever speak to a member of the
00:49:48.260public regardless of the circumstances even if you're a suspect even if i know you're the bad
00:49:53.300guy hey mate don't approach people like that eventually maybe you get to know someone and
00:49:59.380speaking to them for five, 10 minutes, maybe then you can, you know, slide it in. Hey, thank you,
00:50:04.340mate. Thank you very much. But in the beginning, as I said, you represent the office of a constable.
00:50:09.880You need to be immaculate, in my opinion, of speaking to these people. I always approach,
00:50:14.600even the suspects, even the suspects, you know, hey, tomorrow is a better day. I'm not here only
00:50:21.680because of them, of the person that called me. I'm here because of you as well. Let me see,
00:50:26.120how can i help you out i never approach anyone a mate listen to me mate that's extraordinary
00:50:31.760i've seen that it only escalates things and um in the case of henry novak
00:50:38.360why they haven't given why they didn't attend to him medically it's it's uh it's seriously beyond me
00:50:48.080uh fundamentally the most important thing of policing is preserve life even if i know
00:50:58.280this guy's a victim you know this guy he's the perpetrator you know i just i just saw him
00:51:03.960shooting that fellow over there but that fellow is being attended already and in the process of
00:51:08.760me detaining him i knock him out so badly that he doesn't want to come back to you know to to to
00:51:14.280life you need to immediately attend to him no matter what you have done if if there's so if
00:51:20.600there's deranged men on the street stabbing people and in the process of you detaining him you shot
00:51:25.780him in the leg or you shot him in the chest you know immediately you need to attend to them as
00:51:30.080well you need to preserve their life by all means necessary they should have stripped him and i'm
00:51:35.760sorry to say naked immediately and see if he's bleeding not just roll him over and put in the
00:51:41.700handcuffs. This is, you know, I can't watch this video. I watched it a few times and I can't anymore
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00:51:52.060It's just the most egregious thing I've ever seen in my life.
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00:53:24.600And I think a large part of the problem, Dimitar, is if you wanted to be a firearms officer...
00:53:30.900And I think a lot of people don't want to be firearms officers anymore because they go, well, if I do my duty and I shoot someone who is posing either a threat to me or a threat to the public or both, I'm the one who's going to get arrested here.
01:00:49.680i don't know if they can't see for themselves that uh this is actually not transparent i say
01:00:56.900that word quite quite often this actually is leaning one way rather the other uh let's not
01:01:03.540forget that the courts are there for one thing and one thing only to be absolutely honest and clear
01:01:12.060about the picture their job is not to try to find someone guilty or not guilty but to find out what
01:01:20.320is the truth and you here come very very correct unfortunately i think we're living in a situation
01:01:28.040in a world in which truth can be interpreted very differently according to the people you know
01:01:36.160people in power. And that worries me a lot, because if we're going to have an ideologue
01:01:43.520making decisions, what is wrong and what is right, then we're on a very, very slippery slope.
01:01:50.620And I think we're very, very close to a point of no return, with some insanities going on in
01:01:56.140London and in England to begin with. Because we're talking about ideologues setting policy.
01:02:01.600Yes. I mean, there's a lot of problems with that. But one of the major problems is ideologues,
01:02:06.160see the world through their lens it's an ideology and with policing you can't have ideology you have
01:02:14.180to have reality absolutely yes yes correct so you look at something like stop and search and people
01:02:20.480are going oh we need to get rid of stop and search now again i've never policed a day in my life but
01:02:26.140to me that seems lunacy which is particularly it is lunacy it is absolutely crazy why is it lunacy
01:02:33.160I would tell you, stop and search is very, very controversial because according to statistics, black kids maybe stopped a little bit more than, you know, anyone else.
01:03:31.260Not only they're getting, you know, high in front of my apartment on the staircase.
01:03:37.440Last time, one of them pissed in an elevator.
01:03:40.320The people who are calling me to do the stop and search and go and attend, most of the time, were black themselves.
01:03:47.540There were black, lovely people living in these buildings who had enough of kids running up and down, smoking weed and causing havoc.
01:03:55.420You know, stealing your bikes and like this guy said, you know, pissing in the elevator.
01:04:00.080So, stop and search is not exactly as people think. Most of the time, it's other black folks calling on these kids. Some of the stop and searches in Soho, for example. Soho is very famous for getting your phone snatched, your watch snatched.
01:04:22.980if um there's a hot crime spot and um you are dressed in a you know uh black uh nike uh
01:04:38.600you know track suit with a mask on of course that's not enough for anyone to stop and search
01:04:44.100maybe just the way you want to dress you know but uh when um you're running away from the police
01:04:51.580and you try to hide yourself away from the police.
01:04:53.900And before that, there was an intelligence sources
01:04:56.420described someone like you feeding that description
01:04:59.660of just robbed the phone 20 minutes ago.
01:05:03.720You might be indeed get stopped and searched,
01:10:09.320And do you put that down to the problems of policing that you told us about,
01:10:13.700which is effectively if you don't have enough police,
01:10:15.720if you're losing good police officers,
01:10:17.740if the quality of the police officers decline,
01:10:19.760and we know under Theresa May's government,
01:10:22.260there were slashes to, or when she was Home Secretary rather, there was huge budget slashes
01:10:27.840and therefore you couldn't, you lost tens, I think over 10,000 police officers. Is the reason
01:10:33.620London has become less safe and more, there's more crime because there's not enough good police
01:10:38.300officers? I think it's partially because of that. And what else? Apathy. People don't care. People
01:10:47.640think that they can get away with everything the social cohesion of so-called diversities
01:10:55.240our strength in london in my opinion is a fairy tale i have never seen a city so beautiful with
01:11:03.480so much potential and yet so divided i i am i am really really shocked to see that i think
01:11:11.240And I think a lot of these young kids, these gangs, they don't care. They have absolutely no connection to anyone and anything but the gangster lifestyle because it seems so easy to get away with it. And yes, it seems so easy to get away with it because, like you said, you know, there's not enough police officers.
01:11:34.780The second part is even there are some police officers, like Francis said, they look at them and they're thinking probably they look like, you know, a sack of potatoes in uniform.
01:20:07.500has introduced a few of these policies that, you know, we need a certain amount of that type of
01:20:15.320people, certain amount of this type of people, which is absolutely crazy. That's insane, because
01:20:18.640the moment you say, I need more Bulgarians, you know, give myself into example, you are taking
01:20:23.880away the opportunity of someone else that might be much better suited for that position. And that's
01:20:28.800true. And I disagree, actually, with that, that they're better in defusing situations.
01:20:35.340the fusing situation needs courtesy and professionalism that's the only thing that
01:20:42.600it needs it doesn't matter where it comes from as long as the other person can see that is genuine
01:20:49.900regardless if it comes from me or you or some other lady it truly truly doesn't matter it has
01:20:58.800to be sincere courtesy is something that you cannot fake discretion is something that you
01:21:04.740cannot fake. Maybe some female officers may possess that more naturally. But then again,
01:21:13.300what makes a person naturally more courteous? We can't pick and choose when it comes to the
01:21:22.220reality of frontline policing. I'd rather have someone who is more physically capable of doing
01:21:27.760things and then work on their courtesy and discretion than someone that has only courtesy
01:21:36.540and discretion but it's not working on the physical ability to do something because
01:21:40.960most criminals really don't much care how courteous you are especially if they're guilty
01:21:50.560they want to get away they want to get away of course that doesn't mean you have to approach
01:21:54.300Hey, mate. But they really, really don't care. They're thinking, how I'm going to get out of this? What I'm going to do? What I'm going to say? You know, it's a whole avalanche in their head. So to some extent, they might be right, but I wouldn't myself use that as a theory to just put more courteous people, regardless of their sex.
01:22:16.820When we saw, I mean, with the Manchester airport confrontation, I mean, you feel sorry for the female police officers involved in that situation who were badly injured.
01:22:29.140But as you just said earlier, in an ideal situation, those guys who punched police officers really should have been very hesitant to do so because of the stature and the presence of those police officers.
01:22:42.700and they would ideally be thinking, I don't want to punch these people because that's going to end
01:22:47.340very badly for me. Yes, absolutely. And clearly that deterrent wasn't there, which is what you're
01:22:51.820saying. No, it wasn't. It wasn't. And to some extent, I actually think it might be invitation.
01:22:57.580Of course. And I think we should address something else here as well, which again may sound
01:23:05.020controversial but um uh we live in a very very multicultural society and i think perhaps we have
01:23:19.180to take into consideration that some cultural upbringing may have different views on women
01:23:28.540yeah i think we might yeah yes that that is very very very important and um oh i see even more what
01:23:37.540you're saying so when it comes to policing the way somebody from a certain background might react to
01:23:43.280a female police officer is different yes absolutely i've seen that many many times i've seen that many
01:23:48.500many times i've been i have done very many self-exits self-exit is um when someone is very
01:23:55.360very angry and you know you need to detain them inside the cell and you know there's a particular
01:24:01.240way how you get away from them and I've seen people being angry being handled by female police
01:24:11.020officers quite often and they come from most of the time particular backgrounds in North Africa