People on the street: How effective is Manchester’s policing?
With reports finding fault in the way that the Metropolitan police have been operating, we have hit the streets of Manchester asking people about their view on our police and whether they are fit for purpose or need more support.
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00:00Hi, I'm Theo with Manchester World and I'm out on the streets of Manchester today asking
00:04people about policing and that's because it's been found that the Metropolitan
00:06Police are failing in many aspects across their role and in Manchester
00:11police have had a bit of a weird month or so with the incident at Manchester
00:14Airport and then receiving commendations for their work during the riots, trying to
00:18know whether people have a positive or negative association with the police in
00:21Manchester and whether they think it could do with some reform.
00:23I believe, I do believe in policing I just think it needs like a huge reform.
00:27Schools, we often have community police workers that come to speak, I feel like there's an
00:31effort that's being made to break down some fear of what you see, you know, where
00:38them doing stuff in schools, being on the streets, being a bit more visible.
00:42It's a corrupt system so you can't blame the individual people but we're just seeing some change.
00:47Yeah.
00:48Racial sensitivity, like being more trained in, you know, matters where maybe
00:55you might have some privilege that's like blocking you from being able to do
00:58your job effectively.