Frontline Chat

The new Chief of Manchester Police has gone back to basics and is currently turning the force around from the worse performing to best improving, and he says it's all about getting the little things right. Do you agree?

Come and join Dave Wardell from Finns Law and Britain's Got Talent finalist, along with former ARV officer and now writer and speaker, Harry Tangye for a weekly catch up on Frontline Chat! We are going to talk about police kit today. what works, what doesn't, and what it all is!

Karen Henthorn is an incredibly versatile actor who has appeared in numerous dramas, soaps such as Coronation Street and Eastenders, and series including Silent Witness, Casualty, Heartbeat, Holby City, The Bill and Shameless. She also teaches screen acting at Italia Conti Academy. What's her favourite role and why? What, and how were her experiences in War Horse?

What is policing Scilly like? Often lovingly known as the Isles of Scilly, it's a series of several Islands off the Cornish Coast that need a small police force like any other habited location. Colin grew to fame with his facebook messages which caught more attention than the force facebook page itself. We look back on those memories and see what he's up to now.

Tanja first went missing in 1966 as a toddler and has had missing episodes throughout her life for a variety of reasons. In 2017 she was finally (re-)diagnosed as being on the autistic spectrum. She regularly presents workshops and training sessions on autism, neurodiversity, suicide prevention, missing people, co-production (and any combination thereof). Tanja has also worked to help runaway children at an international railway station to re-establish contact with their family or carers. She has undertaken several degrees as a mature student; the latest one an MRes in Forensic Investigation with Cranfield University Defence and Security, looking at search techniques for ‘no-body' homicides. She now works for the NHS and other organisations, specialising in autism training, suicide prevention, equality & diversity, quality & safety reviews, domestic abuse, co-production, and complaints scrutiny. Passionate about missing people and those left behind, she continues to volunteer for a number of relevant charities and the police in a variety of roles. Tanja brings both the personal perspective of a missing person, a carer for a missing person/at risk of going missing person, county lines missing young people, as well as practical and research experience in the field.

We are talking to a genuine Spitfire Pilot Tim Granshaw who learned to fly the plane our ancestors flew to save our country. What's it like? How did he end up flying people around in a two-seater. Who invests in a flight and what stories do they tell?

Find out all the details of how police use divers and what the role involves with special guest, Andy Joyner. Join Dave, a current serving police dog handler and of Finn's Law fame and Harry Tangye, a former Police ARV Sergeant for a chat about anything and everything in police diving.

Join Dave, a current police dog handler and Harry, a former ARV officer for their chat with Sam, a former police officer who left the police early suffering from PTSD.

Come and join, currently serving police dog handler Dave Wardell from Finns Law Fame and former armed response and traffic officer Harry Tangye on this week's events.

Come and join, currently serving police dog handler Dave Wardell from Finns Law Fame and former armed response and traffic officer Harry Tangye on this week's events.

Our light-hearted FrontLine Chat channel this week has a very special guest talking about his career and suffering from OCD. Actor and writer Ian Puleston-Davies who's been in numerous films and drama's including Coronations Street's Owen Armstrong, Vera, Lewis, Tin Star, The Bill, Tess of the D'Urbevilles and much, much, I mean really, much more. He also talks about the huge effect his OCD has caused him during his extensive career and what coping mechanisms he uses. Come and join us for a fun and informative hour.

This episode is a good one! Much fun had with those calling in and Dave talks about the dog he's just attended to get it out of its bad habits as it was extremely aggressive having come from a puppy farm. Fascinating chat and includes who our guests are coming up in the near future!

Join Harry and Dave with their special guest Arthur Smith, comedian, writer and presenter, on #FrontLineChat . We are talking about his father who was a Police Officer in the 1950's in South London having been a wartime prisoner in Colditz. Many laughs along the way.

Joining Dave and Harry this week on #FrontLineChat is Tim Davies, who flew fast jets in the RAF for 20 years, and as an instructor for 10 years learning a lot about human behaviour as he went. We discuss his career and his spin recovery programme. Some fascinating conversations are guaranteed.

Come and join Dave and Harry with our special guest and very good friend of Harry's where we will talk about all the adventures in Olly's nearly 30 years of his policing.

A catch up with the week's events along with other policing subjects which hit the media.

Come and join Harry and Dave in the first of 2021 FrontLine Chat podcasts. We talk about everything and everything and take live questions about the policing world.

Police Interceptor and West Yorkshire cop of 19 years dealing with some of the most severe incidents you can imagine, joins us to talk about his new book on his PTSD, Handcuffed Emotions.

John Greenfield joins FrontLine Chat today with Dave and Harry to talk about his book, based on the diaries and journals of Police Sergeant William Foyle and his eldest daughter Ellen. Let's compare what it was like then, to what it is like now!

How do you start your career being born in a tiny Devon village, obtaining a CSE grade 1 and an O'level to then become one of the highest ranking police officers in a Force. Here's the incredibly interesting life of Nick Downing.

Come and join Dave Wardell, and Harry Tangye for their #FrontLineChat weekly live Podcast at 4pm today. I have a wonderful man who I've known for 30 years and happens to have been an identical twin to someone who was also in the job!

We talk about the funeral and the Matt Ratana Rugby Foundation and all things police this week. Lost of laughs and fun, and a few serious bits too. Enjoy. We had a little bit of trouble with sound at the beginning so had to delete that bit, so you'll hit the ground running.

Join Dave, a current police dog handler and Harry, a former police armed response officer for a catch up to this weeks events!

Now the Police Force is permitting applicants at the age of 17, what do people think?

It's wonderful to have an experienced paramedic from the Devon Air Ambulance with us today to talk about his experiences. Nigel Lang joins us.

Dave and Harry talk about all the weekly goings on and has a catch up. Plenty of fun with the live comments too! Follow us on YouTube @Frontlinechat

Dave has been kept on at work today so it is just Harry to have a chat which soon flew by with some great comments by the listeners. A tribute to Sgt Matt Ratana and a chat about the weekly events.

Just a catch up to discuss everything that's gone on this week.

Join us for a chat about specialist training in the police for the Dog unit, driving and guns. Get the bits of information only the police know about.

Kit Bradshaw has a masters in journalism and has worked his way up from a freelance journalist to working at Sky. He's just about to start a new job with Meridian TV as a reporter. Here he is honest about what he thinks are the issues with the relationship between policing and journalism at the moment. A fascinating interview.

This week we talk about all the current topics, and Dave has his dogs in the field chilling out in the sun with their cooling jackets!

This Podcast is by Harry and he talks about his introduction to Twitter and how he got into it. He speaks about how to avoid trouble and how he stepped onto a few landmines! At the beginning, he does explain what happens when someone reports a person in a flat with a gun to the police to answer recent criticism. What is the thinking process exactly? #FinnAndFirearms

A truly wonderful episode with Nick Knowles joining Dave Wardell and Harry Tangye on this weeks Finn and Firearms Podcast. All those questions you wanted to know are answered. A lot of fun for sure. Definitely worth a listen!

A former Cop Harry and a present Cop Dave, have their weekly chat, this time to 2 new recruits of Devon and Cornwall Police join the conversation

Scottie is a Jumbo pilot, he was an RAF C130 Hercules Pilot, has a consultancy company and media company and he started the voluntary First Responders Charity which he earned an MBE for. He gets things done and you'll find this episode extremely entertaining. The filmed version is available on Twitter and Facebook under #FinnAndFirearms

Our weekly Podcast with hosts Harry Tangye a former Police Armed Response officer and Dave Wardell, a current Police Dog handler, instigator of Finns Law and BGT contestant. Special guest is the Pioneering female Tornado Pilot Mandy Hickson

A chat with Harry a former Armed Response Cop and Dave a current Police Dog Handler. Light-hearted and some interesting facts learned!

Dave and Harry are two great mates who have an hours light-hearted chat every week, and they decided to put it on Facebook and Twitter and before they knew it, it got bigger and bigger, so they made it into a podcast. This episode is all about Cop Food, Night shifts and lots, lots more!

A former Armed Response and Traffic Cop and a current serving Police Dog handler and law changer, speak to the legend that is John Nichol about his new book Lancaster - "The Forging of a Very British Legend"

A chat about everything Policing and with this week's special guest, Mike Pannett! Former Met Police and North Yorkshire Police Officer, now author and producer.

A live chat between two Cops, well, one former cop, which is on at about 4.pm (usually) every Saturday. Come and join us live or just listen in now to see what went on!

Dave and Harry are two great mates who have an hours light-hearted chat every week, and they decided to put it on Facebook and Twitter and before they knew it, the 5th episode had 9000 viewings so we decided to produce a podcasts. Dave Wardell is a current serving dog handler who was not only on Britains got talent, but also changed laws with how Service dogs are considered in a court of law. Finns Law is now in place and offers more protection. Finns Law part 2 aims to do the same with civilian animals so that heavier sentences can be given. He's also written a best selling book called Fabulous Finn Harry is a former Police officer (April 2020) Armed response officer, VIP protection and he also investigated road death. He's written a number 1 best selling book called Firearms and Fatals Expect some real honesty about policing today, what it's like and what's good and bad about it, but most of all, you should have a laugh!