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All Things Considered: Leroy Logan

Leroy Logan

BBC Radio Wales - All Things Considered, Leroy Logan

Roy Jenkins talks to founder member of the Black Police Association Dr Leroy Logan.

His father was once beaten up by the Metropolitan police. So why on earth would Leroy Logan wish to join them? Roy Jenkins talks to the former Met superintendent Leroy Logan.

Roy Jenkins' guest today is a man who once failed to recognise his own father because he’d been beaten up so badly by police officers. 
As a boy, he’d himself been stopped several times as he was carrying his trumpet home from music practice. 
Yet in his twenties, he gave up a career as a hospital research scientist to become… a policeman.
Dr Leroy Logan served the Metropolitan Police for more than 30 years before retiring with the rank of superintendent. 
Incidents from his life were dramatised in Steve McQueen’s recent BBC1 series Small Axe, and he’s written his autobiography, Closing Ranks, My Life as a Cop.
As a founder member of the Black Police Association, he was rarely far from controversy, witnessing at first hand many of the effects of institutional racism. He’s never been afraid to call it out, drawing strength from an active Christian faith, and with a passionate commitment to justice and the needs of young people in particular.

This programme was first broadcast in January 2021.

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