Police 150
- Title
- Police 150
- Genre
- Interview; Documentary; Music; Special
- TX Date
- Unknown
- Year of production
- 1980
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- Duration
- 00:42:12
- Description
- Dickie Arbiter presents a special programme investigating the history, changes and current roles of the Metropolitan Police as they celebrate their 150th anniversary, including possibility of arming police in the future. Speaks to: PC Bill Leighton(?), mounted branch; Detective Chief Superintendent Brian Worth, CID; head of the traffic department, Commander Brian Fairbairn; Superintendent Jan Jeeta(?); Hendon Police Training School Commander, Ken Hanham(?); PC Paul Harrison at Heathrow Airport; Chief Superintendent Peter Jackson, head of the police driving school at Hendon; Chief Superintendent Gordon Newton(?), head of the Complaints Investigation Bureaux; Deputy Assistant Commissioner Colin Hewitt(?); Deputy Assistant Commissioner Peter Neivens. Includes excerpts from the Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert and Sullivan. Produced and written by Dickie Arbiter, studio production by Ray Gannon(?). Breaks in recording.
- Contributors
- Brian Fairbairn; Dickie Arbiter; Peter Jackson; Brian Worth; Peter Neivens; Bill Leighton(?); Jan Jeeta(?); Ken Hanham(?); Paul Harrison; Gordon Newton(?); Colin Hewitt(?); Ray Gannon(?)
- Keywords
- Motor vehicles; Traffic; Airports; Heathrow Airport; Fraud; Crime; Future society; Terrorism; Police; Cars; Women; Marriage; Crime prevention; Burglary; Police personnel; History; Horses; Computers; Security; Policemen; Guns; Gender roles; Gender stereotypes; Firearms; Complaints (public services); Robbery; Road accidents; Criminal investigation; Training; Suffrage; Social change; Anniversariess; Henry Fielding; Bow Street Runners; Hendon Police Training School
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