Home Secretary in wide-ranging interview with Fed chair

16 September 2020

The Home Secretary has compared her role as a politician with that of a police officer in an online interview with the Police Federation of England and Wales.

Priti Patel talked exclusively online to the Federation’s national chair, John Apter, as part of a new ‘The chair asks’ feature in Police magazine and responded to his question around her passion for policing.

“It’s about the shared values we have,” she said, “Policing is in my family and I’ve seen the most extraordinary and exceptional things around policing. My work is all about putting people first and I see big similarities with policing.

I’ve always had that connectivity with public service and those on the front-line who give their all to serve their communities, so I think it’s a natural affinity that we have.”
Read Police magazine and watch the interview with the Home Secretary.