Wider threat to the public. Local people have described horrifying details at the scene, but we wait for further offical updates from the Police And Ambulance service. These are the live pictures coming into us here and as you would expect, a number of emergency vehicles, 13 ambulances were told are on the scene and a loss of Police Presence and that has been the scene for a number of hours. Horrifying developments over the last few hours. With me is our home Affairs Correspondent daniel sandford. Daniel, for people who are just tuning in to this, take us through what we know. This tuning in to this, take us through what we know. Tuning in to this, take us through what we know. This is an incident that happened what we know. This is an incident that happened just what we know. This is an incident that happened just over what we know. This is an incident that happened just over three what we know. This is an incident i that happened just over three hours ago, just before 11 50am. Police
preparation for the event tonight and they said that is the new faulkner biography. i said well, you got the faulkner part right. the best way i can describe this book is equal parts military history, social commentary, and literary criticism. and i think it will appeal equally to fans of any of those subjects. what the book really did for me is force me to give some serious thought to where faulkner stands at a time when we are asking ourselves some difficult and long-overdue questions about our country s historic difficulties when it comes to matters of race. was he something of a pioneer on those issues or was he or another white writer profiting off of racist caricatures of black americans? dr. michael gorra, as you might imagine, has some thoughts on that. he is a professor of english literature at smith college in massachusetts. he is the author of several books including portrait of a novel, the making of an american masterpiece, which was a finalist for the pool surpr
the scope of what we are talking about when we are talking about changes in policing. instead of focusing primarily on reform, there are conversations about defunding or shrieking or abolishing the police, fundamentally changing the institution of the police and what they do. data is really being proffered in many ways as this sort of panacea or silver bullet with many of these issues. in the defunding debate, let s say we are going to defund the cut costs. people say data can be used to allocate resources more efficiently. or let s reduce racial bias and officer decision-making. let s automate it. or you want to reduce the categorical suspicion of young black males and more accurately predict crime, try predictive algorithms. i think we need to be cautious , when we using data are trying to solve social problems with technological solutions. the first thing i would suggest in moving forward is that we pause,moment to stop, to and really invert the order of operations of what
ministers committed to ending rough sleeping by the end of this year. an inquiry into how a serving metropolitan police officer was able to abduct and kill sarah everard has concluded he remained on the force because of failures in recruitment and vetting. the inquiry said red flags were missed at the three different police forces where wayne couzens served over several years. he was off duty when he kidnapped the 33 year old in march 2021. he is now serving a whole life sentence for rape and murder. her killing by a serving police officer prompted a widespread outpouring of anger and grief and sparked demonstrations over concern for the safety of women. the chair of the inquiry said that without a radical overhaul of police vetting and recruitment there is nothing to stop another wayne couzens operating in plain sight. we are expecting the full police response shortly but we have heard an opening statement from chief constable gavin stevens who said the harrowing murder of s
for any reason must be removed from policing and every effort must be made to ensure that similar people neverjoin. that is why we are providing funding to the national police chiefs council to develop an automated system to flag about police officers. we are changing the rules to make it easier for forces to remove those who cannot hold the minimum level of clearance and police chiefs are getting back the responsibility for sharing these conduct hearings so that they can better uphold the standards in the forces that they lead. there will be a presumption for dismissal for any officerfound to have a presumption for dismissal for any officer found to have committed gross misconduct and i can announce today that there will also be an automatic suspension of police officers charged with certain criminal offences. but the work must continue. part two of the report is considering systemic issues in policing such as vetting, recruitment and the culture, as well as the safety of w