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Rod Charles: The Balance of Things
Former Metropolitan Police Officer Rod Charles believes in the balance of things. Despite the death of his nephew, Rashan Charles, in police custody on the 22nd of July in 2017, Rod continues to advocate that “there are so many good police officers out there.” As an...
I’m an ex-officer. The Met police today looks and feels as racist as it was before Macpherson
The Black Lives Matter movement has grown in momentum in the five months since the George Floyd killing. As a 30-year veteran officer who swore to “protect and serve” the community – an oath similarly taken by the man who held his knee on Floyd’s neck for 8 minutes...
Family of Christopher Alder call for end to systemic racism
Christopher Alder collapsed and died at Queens Gardens police station in April 1998. Since his death, his sister Janet has fought tirelessly to find the truth behind her brother's death and the events afterwards which saw him lie in a mortuary when his family thought...