No Comment: What I Wish I'd Known About Becoming A Detective

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In 2000 he started rehab and began the journey to get his life back, addressing his demons and working on developing a stronger and more resilient mindset. I’d seen Line of Duty, of course,” she says, “and so I knew that ‘no comment’ could happen, but when it happened to me… oof! That kind of culture both provides cover and and space for individuals with the most noxious views and others who have real intent to do harm, but it also provides a culture in which terrible things can become normalised.

I’m sure some people who have not behaved the best would rather it hadn’t seen the light of day, but it’s honest – at the end of the day, it’s what happened,” she says.

More than twenty years on, Ronnie is still obsessed with delivering his peak performance, but success has now taken on a new meaning for the world champion. Her friend Mel was living in police accommodation when she caught a senior officer using his mobile phone to spy on her in the shower of their shared bathroom. These days, trying to stay sane in a completely chaotic world makes life incredibly difficult, especially if you're struggling with your mental health. As for the pitiful rape prosecution rate, her time working on sexual and domestic violence cases inside the Met’s community safety unit (CSU) convinced McDonald that the real culprit wasn’t police misogyny but the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) criteria that set a high bar for prosecuting.It is a more nuanced story than the one usually told about the Met, but one partly echoed by Louise Casey’s recent report on the force, which declared it institutionally racist, sexist and homophobic, but also warned of frontline officers experiencing higher burnout rates than frontline doctors during Covid. McDonald has now written a book about her experiences, No Comment: What I Wish I’d Known About Becoming a Detective, in which she lays bare the realities of life in the police force, and which the police force is unlikely to use as an advertising manual for potential new recruits.

Piecing together evidence from original documents and artefacts, this book tells the story of Anne Boleyn's relationship with, and influence over her daughter Elizabeth. And so when she saw an advert for the Met’s new detective scheme, she was intrigued, and swiftly enrolled. Over the centuries, our ability to react to these sweeping killers has evolved, most notably through the development of vaccines. The culture was openly expressed in front of diverse groups of officers who that trainer didn't know at all, and he was kind of quite happy and confident that he could express that culture without anyone objecting. Time and again, she would complete an investigation only to be told by a CPS lawyer on the other end of the phone that there was “no realistic prospect of conviction”.And then the regular who's been dealing with her rolled his window back up again, and immediately said 'she'd get [sexual expletive]'. You are doing meaningful work – albeit very frustrated by the system, but it feels like this really matters. But I’ve got a better impression of what crime looks like now, and you’re far more likely to be attacked by your partner or someone you know,” she said. The Metropolitan Police was recently described as institutionally misogynist in a review by Baroness Casey, who found that a "boys' club" culture was rife and the force was failing to protect the public from officers who abuse women. The vast majority of people join the police to make a difference and to help, and they’re awarded these powers to help with that.

The police may not be super-keen or all good, but they are investigating every single report of rape fully, the same with domestic abuse: they really are.

Given that she could have held precious few memories of Anne Boleyn, it is often assumed that her mother exerted little influence over her. McDonald says she is optimistic that Rowley – who echoed her concerns in May by accusing the CPS of “cherrypicking” easy cases to prosecute – can make improvements. A short secondment, to a murder investigation team, left her wondering why they seemingly enjoyed unlimited resources once it was too late to save the victim, while her domestic violence team – capable of preventing murders – was run ragged.