Stop-and-search policing can save lives by keeping weapons off the streets
Read my latest Scotsman column, published 29th August 2022. It’s a difficult time to be a member of London’s Metropolitan Police. A...
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Tom Wood
Aug 17, 20222 min read
Potential police recruits should not be barred over minor convictions in their youth
This is my latest Scotsman column, published on 15th August 2022. Who among us would wish to be judged on our early years? That gauche...
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Tom Wood
Aug 17, 20221 min read
Sheila Anderson: The murder which changed the policing of the sex trade
This is the final instalment of my three-part exclusive into the unsolved murder of Sheila Anderson for 1919 Magazine, published in their...
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Tom Wood
Aug 2, 20222 min read
As Mo Farah's heartbreaking story shows, modern-day slavery is all too real. So why the focus on...
pulling down statues? This is my latest Scotsman column, published 1 August '22. The heartrending story of Sir Mo Farah’s childhood is a...
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Tom Wood
Jul 19, 20222 min read
From police and prisons to NHS, essential public services are facing major staff shortage crisis
Here's my latest column in the Scotsman, published 18th July. Largely hidden by the psychodrama and endless news coverage of the Downing...
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Tom Wood
Jul 13, 20221 min read
Sheila Anderson: The murder which changed the policing of the sex trade
The second instalment of a three-part exclusive, I've written for 1919 Magazine's July issue, is out now - where I share my insight into...
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Tom Wood
Jul 12, 20222 min read
Cuts to Police Scotland's budget are a false economy that risks domino effect on public services
My 100th Scotsman column, recently published (3rd July). For many of us involved in policing during the 80s and 90s, last week was a time...
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Tom Wood
Jun 21, 20222 min read
Guns are not just an American problem, we cannot afford to be complacent either
Here's my latest Scotsman column, published 20th June 2022. I love The United States. I worked there, have good friends there, I even...
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Tom Wood
Jun 16, 20227 min read
Sheila Anderson: The murder which changed the policing of the sex trade
1919 Magazine, runs the first of it's three-part feature, recounting my insight into the unsolved murder of Sheila Anderson, back in...
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Tom Wood
Jun 7, 20222 min read
Cost of living crisis: Will crime rates soar? Here's what years of police experience tell me
This is my latest column in the Scotsman, published 6 June 2022. It’s an old debate and the subject of many a turgid criminology essay,...
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Tom Wood
May 24, 20223 min read
Coleen Rooney vs Rebekah Vardy in court, police officer to decide Labour leader Keir Starmer's fate
and ex-officer gets £1m damages. These are truly strange times for justice... Below is my latest column for the Scotsman, published on 23...
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Tom Wood
May 10, 20222 min read
Despite tram fiasco, public inquiries into Covid strategy and child abuse are valuable and necessary
Read my Scotsman column, published on 9th May, below. We seem to be living in an era of public inquiries. Long and expensive, they can be...
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Tom Wood
Apr 26, 20221 min read
A Great Write Up for Ruxton in the Daily Mail
Many thanks to Gavin Madeley at the Scottish Daily Mail for the fantastic write up on Ruxton The First Modern Murder, which appeared in...
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Tom Wood
Apr 26, 20222 min read
Why closing Police Scotland stations is not necessarily a bad thing
Here's my latest Scotsman column, on the above - as published on Monday 25th April 2022. The recent revelation that well over 100...
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Tom Wood
Apr 12, 20222 min read
Our front line workers need to be better equipped to deal with people suffering from violent...
...mental disturbance This is my latest Scotsman column, out today (12th April 2022). Bowing out with no great fanfare last week was one...
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Tom Wood
Mar 29, 20222 min read
Ukraine-Russia war: Courageous journalists on frontline remind us of the importance of free media...
...to justice My latest column in the Scotsman is below. When in 1945, the Ohrdruf Concentration Camp was the first to be liberated in...
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Tom Wood
Mar 15, 20223 min read
Scottish justice: Keeping under-18s out of prison is a good idea...
...but legislation alone is not the answer This is the topic in my latest Scotsman newspaper column, published 14th March 2022. There was...
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Tom Wood
Mar 15, 20221 min read
The Times Covers My Story on Working with Star of Simpsons
The Times, kindly carried the news about the American TV production company, owned by the actress Yeardley Smith (famous for her role as...
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Tom Wood
Mar 10, 20221 min read
New Limited Run TV Series & Podcast in the Pipeline for Ruxton
I am absolutely delighted to announce that I'm working with Yeardley Smith's US production firm Paperclip Ltd! They will be making a...
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Tom Wood
Mar 1, 20222 min read
Next Met Police Commissioner must be given a chance to succeed
My latest Scotsman column was published on Monday 28th February. Here it is below.... I have never met Cressida Dick but I know a good...
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