Everything I Know About Me

Maggie Oliver: Operation Augusta

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Episode notes

This is Episode 3 - Maggie was interviewed in her home in Altrincham in July 2024 where she opened up about her childhood in the suburbs of Manchester, her reasons for joining the police force as a 40 year old mother of 4, how she found herself tasked with investigating the grooming gangs in the Greater Manchester area and the failings she encountered by the GMP to tackle the gangs that ultimately led her to resign and blow the whistle on her former employers. 

In this episode Maggie talks about her time in the Child Protection Unit and why - after initially being excited about joining  - she quickly became disillusioned with it and felt that her skills would be better suited to working in serious crime. 

Maggie also talks us through the heartbreaking time when her husband Norman was diagnosed with bowel cancer and how during the years she was caring for him, she began work on Operation Augusta, her first introduction to grooming gangs and her first brush with police failings to deal with them.

Producer: Ósk Pétursdóttir

Narrator: Lisa Snell

Videographer: Monty Vann

Editor: Chelsey Moore

Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini

Executive Producer: Jamie East

A Daily Mail Production: Seriously Popular

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