Leroy Logan - Closing Ranks: My Life as a Cop
Season 1, Episode 59, Oct 26, 2020, 12:13 PM
Star Wars actor John Boyega will play Leroy Logan in an upcoming TV series made by Oscar-winning director Steve McQueen, telling stories from London's Caribbean community between the 1960s and 80s. In this episode, Leroy shares his OMI with Rachel Schofield on a career that had dark days of racism and inequality between the brighter moments of success and recognition.
Rachel Schofield shares OMI with retired Superintendent Leroy Logan MBE, founder member of the Black Police Association: His 30 year career in the Metropolitan Police makes him perfectly placed to reflect on what has and hasn't changed in race relations over recent decades.
In CLOSING RANKS, MY LIFE AS A COP, we hear what made a gifted scientist become a police recruit, despite the huge reservations of his Jamaican father and the mistrust of the police within his North London community.
In CLOSING RANKS, MY LIFE AS A COP, we hear what made a gifted scientist become a police recruit, despite the huge reservations of his Jamaican father and the mistrust of the police within his North London community.