Same Kit Different Day

This episode features Abu Idris, reducing restrictive practice lead and violence reduction specialist at an NHS foundation trust here in the UK.

This time on the dedicated Same kit different day podcast Doug speaks with Collin Singer, founder of Wagtail UK. For the last 17 years Colin has established an international business training and supplying detection dogs across a variety of sectors.

As many schools emerge from lockdown, Doug catches up with the Headteacher of a school he trains. Mark Mackley has been a headteacher for many years in Lancashire and gives his thoughts on the pandemic and physical intervention in general.

In this episode speaks to the CEO of PPSS group. Topics covered include the framework for implementing Personal Protective Equipment and being shot in his own ballistic vest. No really.

In this episode Doug speaks with Dr Tony Bleetman on use of force, banning or restricting certain holds, the cultures that affect policing and we seek his view on the death of George Flloyd in Minneapolis.

In this episode Doug talks to Jordan Wylie, a former soldier, bestselling author, extreme adventurer and also one of the stars of Channel 4’s BAFTA-nominated and award-winning shows Hunted and Celebrity Hunted.

In this episode Doug talks to Dr Vincent Uzomah about the time he was attacked in June 2015, by a pupil. A boy, aged only 14. Dr Uzomah was a

part-time supply teacher at a secondary school at the time.

"I was teaching in the classroom and he just pulled out a knife and stabbed me in the stomach," Dr Uzomah tells me. "It was such a horrible experience. No-one should have to go through the same thing."

This week Doug chat's to Bethany's Dad whose daughter, Beth has been locked in a hospital cell for 3yrs with no treatment, he asks is there is a better way. He'd like to see the right people doing the right thing in the right place.