![]() Despite positive encounters with police officers through his work at The Royal Free Hospital, Logan’s initial thoughts when his boss at the hospital asked if he’d thought about becoming a policeman were, “Do I look like a racist thug?” The response was generated from his negative experiences. “Policing wasn’t on my radar at all,” he said. His father later successfully sued the Met over the incident. ![]() His journey to become a police officer followed several years working in science and research, which could have led him into medicine, and more poignantly, a horrific encounter his father had with police in which the senior Logan was badly beaten. While the retired Metropolitan Police superintendent remains one of the most highly decorated and recognisable black policemen in British history, it didn’t always appear that he was destined for a career in the force. “Good things take time as they say,” he told The Voice. But with the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement, the issue of the relationship black communities have with the police making headlines around the world, and his story being told as part of Steve McQueen’s Small Axe series, it seems right on time. LEROY LOGAN’S autobiography, Closing Ranks: My Life as a Cop, has been 10 years in the making. ![]() ![]() PICTURED: Leroy Logan: (Photo: Mark Harrison) ![]()
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