Decision makers

Title

Decision makers

Genre

Interview; Documentary; Vox pop; Speech

TX Date

Unknown

Year of production

1981

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Duration

00:24:51

Description

Decision Makers: Policing and the Inner City, presented by Dave Loyn. Reactions to the Lord Scarman report, which followed a summer of riots in Brixton and Lambeth. Includes vox pops with local people. Speaking are: Lord Scarman (Leslie Scarman); Ras Simi, Rastafarian; Astel(?) Parkinson, youth worker in Brixton; Barry Pain, Chief Constable of Kent; Jan Cooper, Brixton Council of Churches; Paul Boateng, Chairman of the Police Committee of the GLC; Bob Nind, Vicar of St Matthew’s in Brixton; Ted Knight, leader of Lambeth Council; Sir Philip Knights, Chief Constable of the West Midlands; Margaret Simey, head of the Merseyside police authority; Roy Hattersley, shadow Home Secretary; Environment Secretary Michael Heseltine at the Conservative Party conference. Researcher: Charlie Rose; Engineer: Heather Branwell.

Contributors

Michael Heseltine; Roy Hattersley; Ted Knight; Dave Loyn; Heather Branwell; Leslie Scarman; Astel(?) Parkinson; Jan Cooper; Paul Boateng; Bob Nind; Margaret Simey; Charlie Rose; Ras Simi; Philip Knights; Barry Pain

Keywords

London; Reports; Social problems; Interethnic relations; Police; Unemployment; Racial discrimination; Riots; Lambeth; Policing practice; Black peoples; Brixton; Scarman Report; Urban areas; Multiethnic societies; Institutional racism

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