[CMA TV] Fwd: SOUTHWARK HOUR/Paddick & the Pru

[Bill Best]

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> From: Chris Haydon <c.haydon at can-online.org.uk>
> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 12:21:56 +0100
> 
> Press Release for SOUTHWARK HOUR edition due for
> broadcast week beginning Monday 7th November
> 
> SOUTHWARK HOUR: "PADDICK & THE PRU"
> 
> You may remember Brian Paddick from his days in Lambeth.
> As Borough Commander he ordered his officers to go lightly in
> policing the cannabis laws. His big idea was to direct them and
> their available time at more serious crime - of which one
> assumes there must have been plenty.
> 
> Well, in the October broadcast in SOUTHWARK HOUR, the
> monthly community series from south London produced by
> Comm/unity/ TV Trust, a group of excluded young black pupils at
> a Peckham Pupil Referral Unit asserted police were ignorant of
> what life was really like in the 'ghetto' and that a day there with
> them would open their eyes.
> 
> Chris Haydon, who produces and presents the series, wrote to DAC
> Paddick inviting him to accept the boys' challenge, and to allow
> them to take him round some key venues in their part of Southwark.
> 
> Paddick, now Deputy Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan
> Police, accepted the invitation and recently spent the morning in
> Peckham with the boys from the PRU. They took him to a tough,
> somewhat miserable estate, the place of the recent christening
> shooting, of knife carrying, bullying, smashed windows and boarded
> up flats, etc.
> 
> The resulting programme will be broadcast on the Community
> Channel across the week beginning Monday 7th November.
> 
> The programme was an affirming experience for all involved and
> shows signs of having created a relationship that will go at least
> another round or two. The boys have already been invited to visit
> the DAC 'at the Yard'.
> 
> Local media acting quickly and intuitively here led to a spark of
> real potential. Would excluded boys have anything to say ? You can
> find out.
> 
> Transmission times:  to be announced
> (visit www.communitychannel.org <http://www.communitychannel.org> nearer 
> Mon 7th Nov)
> 
> On air:
> Sky digital 585 24 hours a day
> Telewest 233 24 hours a day
> ntl 14 10am to 4pm
> Freeview 46 6 am to 9am ****new****