There looking at our own insider threat. There is looking at our own insider threat. There is still so much to do in policing there is still so much to do in policing and across society. I would like to policing and across society. I would like to finish by talking directly and speaking directly to women, you will be and speaking directly to women, you will be right to be angry today, about will be right to be angry today, about what you are reading and hearing about what you are reading and hearing i about what you are reading and hearing. I want to stress that policing hearing. I want to stress that policing is hearing. I want to stress that policing is taking this seriously. Ptease policing is taking this seriously. Please do policing is taking this seriously. Please do come forward and seek help and support please do come forward and seek help and support if you need it. Thank ou. We and support if you need it. Thank yom we will and support if you need it. Thank you. We will now an
The false guise of an arrest. The chair of the inquiry into his conduct and background, says without a radical overhaul of Police Vetting and recruitment, theres nothing to stop another couzens operating in plain sight. June kelly reports. He was a predatory sex offender in a police uniform. A criminal with state sanctioned powers. Wayne couzens should never have been allowed to become a police officer, and Continualflawed Vetting meant he was able to stay in his role despite a series of red flags. These are among the stark conclusions of todays inquiry report into couzens. It examined his career, his behaviour and the way he was vetted. The metropolitan Police Service told the inquiry in 2022 that it still have recruited him if provided with the same information. I found this astonishing. Now is the time for change. Without a significant overhaul, there is nothing to stop another Wayne Couzens operating in plain sight. The report described how in 2004 and 2008, kent police turned down
good evening. the three contenders to become the next leader of the scottish national party have been debating tonight in edingburgh. the three candidates the msp ash regan, finance secretary kate forbes, and the health secretary humza yousaf were responding to questions from a live bbc audience. the voting opened yesterday, there are 100,000 snp members, who have just under two weeks left to decide who they think should replace nicola sturgeon as first minister of scotland. at the beginning of her time as first minister, she said judge me on education and tonight each of the candidates outlined what they would wish to be judged on if they become the next snp leader. eradicating poverty is the heart of everything. any inequality we have weathering education or health or in any other area of government, it always comes back to poverty. we must, if not eradicated, we have to substantially reduce poverty. whoever it is the first minister, certainly if i am, the common thread
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