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Those who take on the most difficult jobs often face the most scrutiny, usually because those jobs are for the public service. Teachers, nurses, police officers. If the community pays your wages, you can expect to get grief, and with the advent of social media, it has only become easier to criticise. 
It has also become easier to identify, and scrutinise, those instances where power has been used inappropriately.
In this climate, it has become harder and harder to pick out the actual problems. Post anything about the police online in recent weeks and the comment section becomes awash with vitriol directed at law enforcement. Is this tidal wave of criticism reflective of a service crippled with corruption or is it the amplification of a handful of issues that are in fact being dealt with? Is it somewhere in the middle?
That’s the problem. If you take social media at face value, it’s hard to know. Upholding the law is essential to a community, and when that trust is eroded, everything looks suspicious. 
Police officers are granted powers the general public don’t have. The power to arrest, the power to remove liberty. It's only right that the magnifying glass is held closer over them, but by who? And to what extent?  
I reached out to Guernsey's Head of Law Enforcment, Ruari Hardy, to better understand the criticism the force is currently facing, whether it’s warranted, and what is being done to build public support in one of our most important institutions. 


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This week, Express is marking the 80th anniversary of D-Day with a special three-part podcast series. In the third episode, historian Ian Ronayne explores the impact of D-Day and fighting in Normandy on Jersey…


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This week, Express is marking the 80th anniversary of D-Day with a special three-part podcast series. In the second episode, historian Ian Ronayne explores Jersey’s sacrifice on D-Day and in the Battle of Normandy…


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This week, Express is marking the 80th anniversary of D-Day with a special three-part podcast series.
 
In the first episode, historian Ian Ronayne reveals the involvement of a Jersey resident in one of the most celebrated engineering achievements in history…


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On the 80th anniversary of the D-Day Landings, Express has been exploring what it meant for people in Guernsey.
It was 6 June 1944 when Allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy in a turning point of the Second World War.
The Channel Islands were liberated nearly a year later.
The impacts reverberated both before, during and after Operation Overlord.
In this podcast, Nick Mann is in conversation with Nick Le Huray, curator of the Island Fortress blog and co-host of the Islands at War podcast.


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Eyal Yanilov was the closest assistant to the founder of Krav Maga, a comprehensive system encompassing self defence, combat and fighting, and third-party protection. Its practical techniques and tactics can be applied to a wide range of violent confrontations, and are being taught by more than 1500 active instructors globally.
Mr Yanilov recently came to the Island and taught a seminar at the invitation of Jersey Krav Maga, but first, he stopped by the studio for this Bailiwick Podcast episode. Reporter James Jeune spoke to him about everything from knife defence to mental training, and why Krav Maga is something that everyone should learn.


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