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Num. of words: 21000
Tone: Informal/Casual
Extensive research needed: no
Extra notes: Synopsis

I served with The Metropolitan Police for the best part of three decades and now feel compelled to share some of my extraordinary experiences with the great British public. Many of these experiences will amuse and astonish you, and some may even make your jaw drop and your eyes pop out of your head!
As far as I am aware, these stories and incidents I am about to relate to you have never been committed to paper or even been recounted beyond the insular confines of police stations and courts of law. Rest assured, this is not a fluffy “whodunnit” book or light-hearted TV script. This is not an episode of Miss Marple, Heartbeat or The Bill. If that’s more your thing, close this book immediately and cosy up in front of your television set with a cup of tea and a couple of Hobnobs.
These are real, gritty events with warts-and-all, no-holds-barred, fully-charged drama and raw emotion: candid and accurate depictions of my thirty years within one of Britain’s most notorious and revered institutions, founded almost two centuries ago by Sir Robert Peel.
All of this was actually witnessed by myself with my very own eyes and ears during the 1970s through to the turn of the 21st Century, and I can only hope that by sharing my story I will enlighten and entertain while offering some valuable insight in to the day-to-day trials and tribulations of a typical London copper in what certainly proved to never be a ‘typical’ job.
The book will not teach you about the intricacies of British law and order but instead reveals a side to police life that is rarely depicted in books and on television. It describes my eventful uphill struggle through various personal and health problems while facing the unpredictable daily challenges of a serving Police Officer.
It will show you what the boys and girls in the Metropolitan Police Service get up to when they are on duty – the “wicked wind-ups”, the friendly banter and the more sinister tactics – as well as the various coping mechanisms they employ when they find themselves up against some of the very worst cases and the most abhorrent of human nature. I ended up on the Sex Offenders team dealing with the most predatory sex offenders. It proved to be a job where you couldn’t afford to let your guard down or take anything for granted. You become desensitised to even the most appalling and horrific of crimes.
I will tell you about the body on the Thames foreshore, the sudden death that came back to life and the truncheon-throwing competition for new recruits. How we were held hostage in Peckham by crazed gun-toting robbers. The knife-wielding Police Officer who broke into someone’s house. How we removed cocaine from drug dealers at the Notting Hill Carnival without anyone knowing. And the Broadwater Farm Riots... what really happened on that night?
During my time at the Met, there were countless miscarriages of justice and certainly some questionable decisions were made, and it is up to you the reader to decide if we were fair or correct in our actions…. Or if we occasionally made errors of judgement. I hope you will see that such errors are rare but inevitable hazards of a job fraught with danger and controversy. We are, after all, only human. Names have been changed throughout as this book does not intend to belittle, offend, incriminate or admonish anyone.
Writing this book is quite a risk for me, but I am now at my time of life where anything remotely “politically correct” is fair game... suffice to say, back in my Met hey-day, “PC” wasn’t ever really an issue for the boys in blue….









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