Nicky Perfect News Today

Nicky Perfect experienced many highs and lows in her time as a Met police hostage negotiator - but the hardest to handle was the ISIS kidnapping of a British journalist in Syria

Nicky Perfect speaks to Woman’s Hour about her highly fraught and difficult career.

NICKY PERFECT: Ive been on call across the holiday period, and when youre on call theres a bit of your brain that never quite turns off, an extra edge of alertness.