Cops Like Us

BBC 2, 2020

Inspired by the American hit Flint Town, the BBC series Cops Like Us looked at the present-day crisis in Staffordshire Police funding and public services across the county.

Hardened veteran Staffordshire police officers were brought to tears remembering Stoke when it was a town that had a thriving potteries industry and the people who lived there had work and a sense of pride in their community. The cops described struggling mentally with a broken service and what often feels like a broken population. Emergency response teams trying to combat a backlog of cases, and rise in gang culture, hate crime and domestic violence. A candid and painful series about one of the UK’s most deprived cities.

I was brought in during the edit to lead all master interviews and help establish a style for the series. Edit produced programme one in the series.

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Credits

BBC Commissioner: Gian Quaglieni

Production Company: Dragonfly

Executive Producers: Richard Bond, Ros Ponder, Simon Kerfoot

Producer: Alice Keane

Edit & Interview Producer: Nick Leader