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Picket line arrests at News International (1986)

Genre

Interview

Unidentified male speaker (poss. a police officer) on violence on the part of demonstrators at the News International plant in Wapping in the printers dispute. He describes some of the weapons employed by...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Private Detective Wiggins apprehends criminal; Brian Wiggins Interview (1986)

A Reading private detective has been talking about how he spotted escaped prisoner Joseph Hanson this morning, a few yards from the town’s main police station. 35-year-old former policeman Brian Wiggins,...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Wapping dispute violence (1987)

Genre

Interview

Kenneth Newman, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police on the outbreak of violence at the Wapping printmakers dispute against New International and defending police action. Female interviewer not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Anti-terrorism and nuclear safety (1978)

Genre

Speech

Speech by Conservative home affairs spokesman William Whitelaw, at the International Association of Airport and Seaport Police conference in London, on the need for international cooperation to combat crime...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

News International dispute - Violence at Wapping (1986)

Genre

News report

Report from the scene on violence at the News International printers’ demonstration at Wapping, London. Police loudspeaker and pickets’ chanting heard. Female reporter not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

South African police accused of extreme practices (1994)

Genre

Interview

Brian Dooley of Amnesty International on claims the South African government are sending police who carried out torture and execution in Bophutswana to the troubled Zulu Natal province to police the state...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Policing of strikes (1990)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Peter Imbert on public confidence in the police following the charges against some police officers being dropped because of too long a delay in bringing...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Sir Peter Imbert calls for national crime agency (1989)

Genre

News report; Speech

Peter Russell reports on a call by Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Peter Imbert for an FBI-style national detective agency to combat increasingly sophisticated international crime. Speaking to the...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Douglas Hurd on Wapping dispute violence (1987)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Home Secretary, Douglas Hurd, responding to a call for an inquiry into police violence at the News International dispute in Wapping, East London. Says the mob were deliberately violent and...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

First International police exhibition and conference (1987)

Genre

News report; Speech

Report on the first International Police Exhibition and Conference at the Barbican in London where UK Home Secretary, Douglas Hurd, announces new fingerprinting methods and claims new laws/confiscating...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio