Copper at the yard
Subtitle: the Flying Squad goes Morris dancing
By: John Woodhouse ; foreword by Roy Ramm
Publisher: Wharncliffe True Crime
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Barnsley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9781473822450; 9781473821491; 9781845631604
Subjects: Infrastructure; Police; SOCIAL SCIENCE; Career in police; General; Great Britain; Health; Biography; Great Britain. Metropolitan Police Service; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Other titles: Inside the real Sweeney
Description: Being a copper at the yard was definitely an exciting time for the author, John Woodhouse, but it did take it's toll on social and family life. From east end detective, to the Bomb Squad in London's fight back during the IRA bombings of the 1970s, to the Flying Squad in the fight against organised crime. But amongst all this there was a lighter side, from Morris Dancing, to a cross dressing débutante at Ascot's ladies day, to undercover cop is all in a days work, until out of the blue he was told he had terminal cancer and to go home and die. This book is an insight into the life of an ordinary.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Prologue; Chapter 1: A Change of Direction; Chapter 2: Now the Real Thing; Chapter 3: Back to Reality; Chapter 4: Never Say 'We' When You Mean 'They'; Chapter 5: Coming to Terms with Life; Chapter 6: Can't Get Away from the Treatment; Chapter 7: Is Survival Worth It?; Chapter 8: My First Posting to New Scotland Yard; Chapter 9: A Detective in East London; Chapter 10: You Can't Spend All Day at Home; Chapter 11: Social Life Begins Again; Chapter 12: Time to Go, But Where?; Chapter 13: Coming of Age; Chapter 14: A New Life.