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A gloomy day for the Met police or is your faith still in tact?

Posted by Nick Ferrari on February 09, 2010 at 11:15AM

Nick discusses your feeling towards the Metropolitan Police after Commander Dizaei is jailed for four years.

Metropolitan Police Commander Ali Dizaei has been sentenced to four years for assaulting and falsely arresting a man in a dispute over £600. After he's been found of abusing the system in this way has it ruined your faith in the police? And as an avid campaigner for minorities in the police force, have his actions damaged race relations?

A new scheme under consideration? Money for snitching on benefit cheats. Would you shop your neighbour if they were screwing the system? What would your motives be - the injustice or the cash reward? The widow of Gary Newlove - who was murdered outside his home after confronting a gang of youths - came on the programme to talk about the launch of the National Licensed Trade Association, which promotes responsible drinking. After witnessing how much alcohol is a factor in crime, Helen Newlove wants to promote more responsible drinking among young people.

See if you can get your head around this one. Should we abolish GMT and just keep GMT? But - according to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents - we would do it by in summer being two hours ahead of GMT and in winter being one hour ahead of GMT. Confused? According to you the listeners, we trialled in back at the end of the sixties and it didn't work, especially not in the North and Scotland. Plus, when did you last see a Royal out and about on their own? A stunning picture of the Queen in your papers this morning - apparently making her way quietly along a train platform in Kings Lynn.

I'll be back tomorrow morning from 7am.