The World This Weekend on BBC Radio 4 on 24 July explored the kind of training given to police officers in how to conduct relations with the news media. The peg for the story was the confirmation by Surrey Police that a detective had been taken off the Milly Dowler murder investigation following allegations that information had been passed to the News of the World. The force says it has no evidence the detective constable spoke to journalists, but a fellow officer complained that confidential data had been mishandled. On a general level, the government’s announced an investigation into allegedly corrupt relations between the police and the press. Presenter Shaun Ley wanted to know if officers were always given the training they needed. He spoke to Peter Ryan, a former chief constable who was the first national director of police training for England and Wales, before taking charge in New South Wales, after a corruption inquiry at Australia’s largest police force. But before the interview Ley asked if things were as clear cut as they seemed to be in the days when the fictional policeman Dixon pounded the Dock Green beat. Of course most journalists’ experience of the police is not a Deep Throat-style contact but the press office. That’s where enquiries are dealt with from newsrooms around the country. Watch a video about how the Greater Manchester Police press office goes about its daily business. Similar Posts: The Nick Clarke Award Slive: NCAA change is in the air Citrus Heights school lockdown was appropriate amid abuse allegations, experts say UC Riverside Police Carry A Torch for Charity Entoview College Edition Tags: Police, Police Corruption
The World This Weekend on BBC Radio 4 on 24 July explored the kind of training given to police officers in how to conduct relations with the news media.
The peg for the story was the confirmation by Surrey Police that a detective had been taken off the Milly Dowler murder investigation following allegations that information had been passed to the News of the World.
The force says it has no evidence the detective constable spoke to journalists, but a fellow officer complained that confidential data had been mishandled.
On a general level, the government’s announced an investigation into allegedly corrupt relations between the police and the press.
Presenter Shaun Ley wanted to know if officers were always given the training they needed. He spoke to Peter Ryan, a former chief constable who was the first national director of police training for England and Wales, before taking charge in New South Wales, after a corruption inquiry at Australia’s largest police force.
But before the interview Ley asked if things were as clear cut as they seemed to be in the days when the fictional policeman Dixon pounded the Dock Green beat.
Of course most journalists’ experience of the police is not a Deep Throat-style contact but the press office. That’s where enquiries are dealt with from newsrooms around the country.
Watch a video about how the Greater Manchester Police press office goes about its daily business.
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