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Jon Kennedy is a retired Detective Chief Inspector who spent his entire 30-year career with the Metropolitan Police. During his career he was posted to the Territorial Support Group, the Murder Squad, Internal Affairs, Safeguarding and other various command groups within the Met. He has been part of senior leadership teams for major public order events such as the Notting Hill Carnival, New Year’s Eve and other large scale public order events. At times he was responsible for high profile murder cases and other serious crimes. 

Jon has been interviewed by most of the TV channels in the UK and has travelled all over the world, from Europe to the Falklands islands. Jon has just recently had a paper published by the Home Office Affairs select committee into ways of increasing the arrest and charge rate for the sex offence beginning with ‘R’ and ending in ‘ape’.

Throughout his career Jon has been driven by a need to maintain high professional standards, to support the victims of crime to lead from the front and continually confront those that were unable or unwilling to maintain such standards.

In March 2023, Baroness Louise Casey, concluded a year-long investigation into the Metropolitan Police force. The report found that ‘the Met’ is institutionally racist, sexist and homophobic; has inadequate management; examples of predatory and unacceptable behaviours, humiliating initiations and a bullying culture… 

Expect to hear Jon’s reaction to the Baroness Casey report findings and the everyday perspective on working in ‘the Met’. Jon’s describes his initiation, talks about some his scariest moments, tells some hilarious stories and much more...

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Reach Out to Jon on https://www.instagram.com/jonkennedy_pt/
Baroness Casey Report: https://www.met.police.uk/SysSiteAssets/media/downloads/met/about-us/baroness-casey-review/update-march-2023/baroness-casey-review-march-2023.pdf
Publication: https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5802/cmselect/cmhaff/193/report.html

00:00 Intro
02:47 Police Initiation
07:41 Is The Police Misogynistic
14:08 Is It Worth Joining the Police
19:12 Weeding Out Corrupt Cops
30:29 Discipline or Bullying
41:59 Are TV Shows Like Reality
43:50 Early Career
51:11 Bullying in the Riot Police
58:28 Riots, Petrol Bombs & Hooligans
01:12:05 Scariest Moment in 30 Years
01:18:01 Impact on Family Life
01:27:28 Working with High Profile People
01:35:21 RAF Nearly Bomb Traffic Cops
01:38:47 Pork Pie and Dead Body Story
01:49:22 Bad Boys, Bad Boys... Story
01:52:19 Final Thoughts on the Police
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