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Sensemaker Live: Can the police restore public trust?

Sensemaker Live: Can the police restore public trust?

This event is exclusive to Friends of Tortoise

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People were already losing faith in the police’s capacity to solve crimes, and mixed race people in particular had sharply lower confidence in law enforcement than the general population. Then a serving officer was charged in Sarah Everard’s murder. Instead of acknowledging collapsing public trust in the police’s instincts and intentions – never mind capacity – the Met circled its wagons. So what can be done to rebuild that trust? Is this a fixable problem of leadership, culture, recruitment and resources? Are there times when the public needs to cut police some slack? Or do we need to start again from scratch?

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Giles Whittell
Sensemaker Editor

Helen King
Former Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police

Unmesh Desai AM
Chair, Police and Crime Committee, London Assembly