He joins me to discuss his experiences within the MET, his efforts at challenging racism and how much has changed since he first joined. Now retired, Paul’s memoir “Rocking the Boat: A Superintendent's 30 Year Career Fighting institutional racism” has been described as “a challenging read” by Trevor Hall CBE, the retired Race Equality Advisor to the Home Office, and “an important wake-up call in the Black Lives Matter era” by Lord Brian Paddick, the former Deputy Assistant Commissioner at the Metropolitan Police. From helping establish the Black Police Association, heavily influencing the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry, discussing critical issues with a Home Secretary, a Prime Minister, and an American President, Paul has been at the heart of British policing at a time of intense scrutiny over its commitment to racial equality. She joins me to talk about why we don't all breath the same air and honouring Ella's legacy in challenging the toxicity we don't see.Įp 43: Whiteness and the police – Paul Wilson is one of the UK’s longest serving and most senior black police officers. She is also an Honorary Fellow of the British Science Association and was named among You Magazine's 21 Most Extraordinary Women of 2021, British Vogue's 25 Extraordinary Women of 2021, The Times' Green Power List 2021 and BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour's Power List 2020. Rosamund is a teacher in schools and lecturer at universities. Ella is now the first person in the world to have air pollution listed as a cause of death on her death certificate. In a landmark decision in December 2020, the coroner ruled that it was. Rosamund spent several years campaigning for a second coroner's inquest into Ella's death to determine whether it was linked to air pollution. Rosamund became a clean air advocate after her 9-year-old daughter, Ella, died in 2013 from a rare and severe form of asthma. Ep50 - Whiteness and air pollution : Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah is a BreatheLife Ambassador and founder of the Ella Roberta Family Foundation, based in London.
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