When Andy Murdoch went from professional football player to polis his club, Partick Thistle, tried to get the police to pay a £50k transfer fee! Strangely enough, Strathclyde Police insisted on a free transfer and there he rose through the ranks, spending time as a trainer at the Scottish Police College and eventually become a superintendent, retiring from the Contact, Command & Control division (also known as C3). Since retiring he has been chair of the Partick Thistle’s Former Players Association and remains a respected figure in both Scottish football and policing communities.

The SFQ podcast speaks to its first member of police staff - Angela Blair, formerly National Productions Manager with Police Scotland. What are productions? Basically, all the property that gets seized by the polis, about 500,000 items a year. How does it do that? What does it do with all those bricks and how was Angela involved in a previous Oasis concert in Scotland?

If you are interested in talking to the host, Andy, about CBT therapy, you can contact him here:

https://www.counselling-directory.org.uk/counsellors/andy-fairie

Hear how Retired Chief Inspector Andy Brown went from a career in the highlands of Scotland to successfully negotiating a hostage release with the Taliban as part of his work with the Jesuit Brotherhood, in addition to his time spent studying negotiation in the United States as a Fullbright Scholar.

You can find Andy's 'The Right Path' website here:

https://www.the-right-path.com

If you are interested in talking to the host, Andy, about CBT therapy, you can contact him here:

https://www.counselling-directory.org.uk/counsellors/andy-fairie