Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

It shouldn’t take undercover journalists to expose policing’s sexist and racist culture

(Version anglaise seulement)

par John Fox, Senior Lecturer in Police Studies, University of Portsmouth

As a researcher of police occupational culture, I was horrified, but not at all surprised by the recent Panorama programme in which an undercover reporter exposed sexism, racism and general thuggishness among some Metropolitan Police officers.

Nearly a quarter of a century ago, the BBC produced another groundbreaking example of undercover reporting in the world of policing. In The Secret Policeman (2003), journalist Mark Daly joined Greater Manchester Police as a recruit officer. He covertly…

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