Frontline Chat - Chat and interviews on policing: Recent Episodes
Harry Tangye
A police dog handler and former armed response officer have a weekly Saturday chat on current policing issues. This often includes fascinating guests who join them. Kick back and enjoy this informal get together, but which often gets to the depth of policing issues.
Steve Cooper, a former Detective Inspector and founder of Rank Success talks to former Police Sergeant Harry Tangye about the police promotion process. It's always been considered a bit of potluck with accusations of all the wrong candidates being promoted and the great leaders, rarely being so, but what are the secrets behind it all and how can candidates be more successful? Here's a chance to listen to an expert I highly respect, having witnessed his own leadership in the Force I served for 30 years.
What's happening to the police service which has been in freefall since the cuts by Theresa May? Recruitment, Training, Monitoring, Experience, Crime/mental health, wages and detection figures,
Join former cop Harry Tangye with Police Inspector Gary Craig from the PSNI and Dale Thomlinson talking about mental health in the police today, and the special new app to help 'Thrive' just launched
Frontline Chat today is all about speaking to the wonderful Tanja Conway Grim who we've had on here before on Autism and now her involvement with the creator Charlie Hedges on their work creating a Missing Persons Information Hub charity. (MPIH)
Join Harry Tangye, former ARV officer and VIP protection officer for this weeks frontline chat. He discussed the IOPC Independent Office of Police Conduct, the RAF Club, being stalked and Harassment and PTSD.
Dave is unable to join us today as he has this thing called, 'policing commitments' and involves a leather ball type thing this Saturday. In the meantime join me for a half-hour as we have a lovely person who works in a Hydra Unit who's popping in for 4 minutes. You'll love her and she's been my friend for over 2 years. It's all about officers learning by the best teaching methods possible. 'Almost as if they were actually there'.
Join Dave Wardell and Harry Tangye for Frontline Chat with special guest, writer and former Police Commander of the Met, John Sutherland otherwise known as @policecommander on twitter and Wordpress.
Join Frontline Chat at 4.00pm on Saturday live, for frank and open discussion on everything policing and diversity with our wonderfully balanced but straight-talking diversity and Inclusion manager of Essex Police, Vernal Scott.
Join Harry and Dave with special guest RDO (resource deployment officer) Lisa Burnett. What's out like being a police radio operator? Join us live 4.00pm Saturday
This is the revealing and inspirational life story of Nick Holmes who talks to Harry and Dave. Nick was a bullied underachiever who left school with minimal qualifications and few prospects at 16 and went on to make a huge difference in the world. From being turned down to join the police for a drunk and disorderly conviction, he later managed to climb the ladder to Chief Supt and then later become a director of an FTSE 100 Gold Mining company.
Serving police dog handler Dave Wardell and former armed response police officer Harry Tangye have a light-hearted relaxed chat about the latest week in policing.
Dave and his family are going through a torrid time with Finn but there is hope so there's a quick update on that. It'll just be Harry today having a chat but it's time to have an update on policing generally as well.
Today's live firearms chat is with Superintendent Andrea Quinton who has worked as a GMP police officer for 30 years and is currently a firearms commander. We'll be discussing her work in response, neighbourhood, CID, prisoner processing, proactive policing and training. She's a trustee for Thin Blue Line Uk
This week we chat about what's been happening in the past week for FrontLineChat. Kick back and join with the natter! The Thin Blue Paw Awards amongst other things where I met another FrontLineChat guest as well. Who was it?!
We have an old friend of mine coming on as a guest. I worked with him in the Traffic Department in Devon about 11 years ago, when he left to work as a police officer in Canada. He's been involved in delivering death notification training in Barbados, western Canada and San Diego, Florida and Phoenix and is now a detective on the professional standards unit. (Police complaints) Let's see how the UK and Canada compare.
After a week that contained the awful shooting of 5 innocent people, including a little girl and her father in Plymouth, with the killer then shooting himself, it's raised many questions. Today on Frontline Chat we discuss what goes through officers minds when they attend a violent or another major incident. What actually goes on in the background and then what happens afterwards.