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Policing the 80s

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

An eight-part series in which William Woollard investigates the style and quality of law enforcement in Britain today.
2: Watching a City
' It's so unpredictable ... anything from an old woman who's collapsed through drinking too much. to a gang of yobboes on the rampage. You just can't tell. I suppose I'm a sort of fireman who just dashes in where I'm needed.'
(PC DICK THORPE of Leeds Police)
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER
BBC Birmingham
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Contributors

Unknown:
William Woollard
Unknown:
Dick Thorpe
Producer:
Jock Gallagher
Source: Radio Times

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