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Ever wondered what it was like to be a police officer before computers, political correctness and health and safety? How it felt patrolling a beat when the lights went out, confronting an armed criminal with just a wooden truncheon for protection or attending a messy post-mortem?
Now crime writer and retired police superintendent, David Hodges, lifts the lid on it all, putting together his own recollections of a job he knew so well during thirty years of intense change - from the swinging sixties to the radical mid-nineties.
In his candid description of life on and off the beat, he uses a mix of drama, pathos and humour to illustrate the journey of a naive twenty year old, who had never even seen a dead body before, to a fifty year old cynic, who, by retirement, had seen a bit too much of everything.
Reflections In Blue is not about the exploits of an 'unsung hero' or the 'world's greatest detective,' but is a revealing - and often hilarious - anecdotal account of a former secondary school boy's trials and tribulations pursuing a career in a tough and highly political policing environment.
It is a fascinating eye-opener of a book and one that is almost impossible to put down...
Now crime writer and retired police superintendent, David Hodges, lifts the lid on it all, putting together his own recollections of a job he knew so well during thirty years of intense change - from the swinging sixties to the radical mid-nineties.
In his candid description of life on and off the beat, he uses a mix of drama, pathos and humour to illustrate the journey of a naive twenty year old, who had never even seen a dead body before, to a fifty year old cynic, who, by retirement, had seen a bit too much of everything.
Reflections In Blue is not about the exploits of an 'unsung hero' or the 'world's greatest detective,' but is a revealing - and often hilarious - anecdotal account of a former secondary school boy's trials and tribulations pursuing a career in a tough and highly political policing environment.
It is a fascinating eye-opener of a book and one that is almost impossible to put down...
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