# The Collators Office

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Podcast: [The Collators](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-collators-7459521)
Published: 2026-05-03T14:35:00+00:00
Episode link: https://thecollators.com/s2e10
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Duration seconds: 4897

## Resource

In this episode, Mark and Howard are joined by David Allen, a former Metropolitan Police officer who joined the job in 1966 and later became a collator at Bow Street. David shares what policing the West End was really like, how the Collator's Office worked, and why apparently trivial scraps of information could sometimes become the key to serious investigations.

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