it was great, the training was amazing. the people i work with, they felt like family. it was a really great environment, initially. but the longer i was there, i started to see some horrific behaviour from my senior officer. and it went on for quite a while and injanuary 2018, i got an e mailfrom him. it was just the line, the final crossing of the line. it was an e mail that basically said that female officers shouldn t be working together because of our physical capabilities and to balance out testosterone. i put in a grievance. suing the police, it s not an easy thing to do. you don tjust put a grievance in because the minute you do that, you ve got a target on your back. but i didn t have a choice at that point because i d experienced such bad behaviour leading up to that e mail. like what? i d been accused of throwing my utility belt with a loaded gun, which never happened. but because i was challenging some of the behaviours and the orders that were given out by management,
dan whitworth is a reporter covering this for money box on radio 4 and he told us more about this scam. it started like many of the investigations we do here with an e mailfrom one of our investigations we do here with an e mail from one of our listeners, adam. that is james s son. he e mailed a couple of weeks ago and explained what had happened to his father. in short what had happened was this. over the course of 13 months, criminals had scams and then stolen £153,000 from james, the victim, by indoctrinated him, by grooming him into believing that he was actually helping a woman in the united states escape an abusive relationship, and then to help pay for these expensive medical bills. the transfers that the criminals encouraged him to make started off small, but then they got larger and larger. there were multiple transfers of £10,000, a few of £15,000, and james also deceived by the web of lies that this criminal
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