Giving access to footage of officers in action would help restore community trust in policing

As a custody sergeant in Brixton, south London, in the 1980s, I worked in police cells that were held in deep suspicion by local communities, which is probably understating it. The cells were seen by many young people as being a dangerous, lawless zone, where you would be stitched up regardless of what you had done. But things changed, both in the way the police cells were run and the perception of them in local communities.

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