Barrie Davies

Old Time Policing: a History of How Policing Was in the Mid 20th Century Barrie Davies

In the mid nineteen sixties the Author had progressed from being a country copper, a city copper to the C. I. D. and to the newly formed Crime Squad to combat the nationwide crime. He starts off by telling you of one of his experiences of undercover work in London and surrounding areas in the mid sixties, liasing with the Metropolitan Flying Squad, as a Crime Squad Officer and, wonders how he arrived there so, the story is then told of how his carreer began as a Copper. It is a story of the beginning of an adventure within a job, the training, the unusual, the standard of leadership, the equipment available, the real life of a Copper - AS IT WAS THEN - during the first three years of services as a Police Officer. Life is now so different in the 21st century.