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Operation Countryman

Author : Dick Kirby
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1526712563
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Operation Countryman written by Dick Kirby and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2018-03-30 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1978, rumors emerged from the underworld that huge sums of money had been paid to the City of London Police to water-down evidence and arrange bail in cases of armed robbery. Then it was suggested that Scotland Yards Flying Squad was also involved.The Home Secretary appointed the Dorset Police to investigate but it became clear to the criminals upon whom they relied to provide evidence that they were completely out of their depth. One line of inquiry after another became hopelessly compromised.While the investigation was known officially as Operation COUNTRYMAN, things were so bad that the team were variously nicknamed The Swedey and Malice in Blunderland.Despite a four year inquiry costing 4,000,000, eight Metropolitan police officers were acquitted and just two City of London officers were imprisoned. Operation COUNTRYMAN had little to do with that success; the convictions resulted from the fearlessness of a City of London policeman.The Author, a former Metropolitan police officer has used his knowledge and contacts to lift the lid on the shambolic COUNTRYMAN inquiry. He pulls no punches.

Crossing the Line of Duty

Author : Neil Root
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750990988
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Crossing the Line of Duty written by Neil Root and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Metropolitan Police of the mid-twentieth century, in particular The Flying Squad and Obscene Publications Squad, has been described as 'the most routinely corrupt organisation in London'. Larger-than-life characters such as Ken Drury and Alfred 'Wicked Bill' Moody routinely fraternised with underworld figures, paid off witnesses and struck dodgy deals to get their man – regardless of whether he was innocent or guilty. And the problem went far beyond a couple of 'bent' coppers: in the end, fifty officers were prosecuted, while 478 took early retirement. Using Metropolitan Police files obtained under Freedom of Information, which have not been accessed since the 1970s, author Neil Root can finally tell the real story of how the Met became systemically corrupt, and how Sir Robert Mark, who became commissioner of the Metropolitan Police in 1972, finally cleaned it up.

Transformations of Policing

Author : Alistair Henry
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351878050
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Transformations of Policing written by Alistair Henry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Police and People in London is still the largest and most detailed study of a police force and its relations with the public that has yet been undertaken in Britain. The twenty-three years since its publication has seen a constantly-accelerating rate of change in the legal framework of policing, in the arrangements for democratic accountability of the police, in the technologies involved in crime and policing, in management structures and methods in the police service, in financial control systems imposed by central government and in methods of assessing police performance. Over the same period, crime control has moved from the bottom to the top of the political agenda, leading to increasing pressure on the police to be seen to be effective. Transformations of Policing returns to the central issues discussed in 1983 and considers whether the main conclusions need to be revised in the light of what has happened since. It also reviews areas of debate and research that have emerged more recently and highlights areas of turbulence that are creating fundamentally different patterns from before and raising genuinely new questions.

Shut It!

Author : Pat Gilbert
Publisher : Aurum
ISBN 13 : 1845136608
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (451 download)

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Download or read book Shut It! written by Pat Gilbert and published by Aurum. This book was released on 2010-10-25 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sweeney broke the mould for British cop shows. Until it was broadcast, they’d been rather stolid, sometimes quaint, dramas like Dixon of Dock Green, Z-Cars and Softly, Softly about policemen – or even bobbies: not cops. They were about upholding the law: not breaking it: about smart blue uniforms, not kipper ties and long hair. They were about preventing or punishing violence – not about inflicting it with pleasure on villains. Then, in 1975, The Sweeney burst onto commercial television. Based on the notoriously corrupt activities of Scotland Yard’s Flying Squad, it followed two dishevelled, uncouth detectives, Regan and Carter, played by John Thaw and Dennis Waterman, who hurtled around unsalubrious parts of London in a battered Ford Granada roughing up anyone who failed to spill the beans quickly enough. Where Dixon of Dock Green would bid his viewers “Goodnight all1”, with a cheery salute, this pair snarled “Shut it!” at toe-rags who spoke out of turn and “Put ‘em away, love” at gangsters’ molls whose boudoirs they’d burst in on. Philip Glenister’s Gene Hunt in Life on Mars is both parody and homage. Now Pat Gilbert has written the book on this cult cop show, interviewing dozens of people who made it happen, from screenwriters to stuntmen. It’s an essential companion to one of the DVD box sets.

The Dirty Dozen

Author : Lynda La Plante
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1499862121
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book The Dirty Dozen written by Lynda La Plante and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth book in the Tennison series following Jane Tennison in the early years of her policing career. The fifth book in the Sunday Times bestselling Jane Tennison series. April 1980 and Jane is the first female detective to be posted to the Met's renowned Flying Squad, commonly known as the 'Sweeney'. Based at Rigg Approach in East London, they investigate armed robberies on banks, cash in transit and other business premises. Jane thinks her transfer is on merit and is surprised to discover she is actually part of a short term internal experiment, intended to have a calming influence on a team that likes to dub themselves as the 'Dirty Dozen'. The men on the squad don't think a woman is up to the dangers they face when dealing with some of London's most ruthless armed criminals, who think the only 'good cop' is a dead cop. Determined to prove she's as good as the men, Jane discovers from a reliable witness that a gang is going to carry out a massive robbery involving millions of pounds. But she doesn't know who they are, or where and when they will strike . . .

Drug War

Author : Peter Walsh
Publisher : Milo Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1908479949
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Drug War written by Peter Walsh and published by Milo Books Ltd. This book was released on 2018-11-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drug War is a landmark modern history: the first ever full account of the United Kingdom’s fight against the illegal importation of drugs. Packed with remarkable revelations and thrilling anecdotes, it tells for the first time the story of the high-level traffickers who drugged Britain, and the secretive organisation that tried to stop them: the Investigation Division of HM Customs and Excise. The ID’s elite officers waged a fifty-year battle to stem the tide of cannabis, cocaine and heroin arriving by land, air and sea, and to track, arrest and prosecute the smuggling gangs, both organised and chaotic, who turned an amateur pastime into a multi-billion-pound trade. The result of more than 100 unique interviews, many with insiders who have never spoken publicly, it is a ground-breaking account of one of the most vital subjects of our times. It begins with the UN Single Convention of 1961, intended to enshrine a worldwide ban on narcotics. Yet within five years the UK was on the cusp of a narco-boom, driven by immigrants from its former colonies and by the eruption of the youth counterculture. The insidious effect was to corrupt key areas of British life, including airport baggage and freight handlers at Heathrow Airport, dockers at the major ports and even the Drug Squad at New Scotland Yard. Drug War chronicles: the first major ‘barons’, including the brilliant laser scientist Dr Gurdev Singh Sangha; the rise of hippie traffickers such as the legendary Howard Marks, and the violent gangland syndicates that ultimately brushed them aside; the ongoing rivalry between police and Customs and how this often blighted the law enforcement response; the emergence of London’s first heroin godfather, Gigi Bekir, and how the Turkish state was complicit in flooding the country with smack; the heavyweight ‘untouchables’ who eventually streamlined the drug business, and the extraordinary covert methods employed against them; and how secret liaison with British and American spy agencies led to the biggest cocaine seizures ever, the motherships of the Colombian cartels. Concluding with the series of mishaps and scandals that ushered in the Serious Organised Crime Agency, Drug War is a ground-breaking account packed with unique revelations, personal testimony and fresh analysis.

Policing

Author : Peter Joyce
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1446244342
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book Policing written by Peter Joyce and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2010-10-31 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively and comprehensive text combines an overview of the historical development of policing in the UK, with discussion of current debates and practice. It provides a global and comparative context, in order to shed light on contemporary issues. The book equips students with an in-depth understanding of the challenges and complexities of modern policing, including: " the relationship between the police and other criminal justice agencies " styles and approaches in practice " how to police political violence " diversity and the police " police accountability Featuring chapter summaries, case studies, study questions, an expansive glossary and a date chart listing significant events, the book is easy to use and helps students to reflect upon key themes. It is essential reading for criminology, criminal justice and policing undergraduates.

The First Miscarriage of Justice

Author : Jon Robins
Publisher : Waterside Press
ISBN 13 : 1909976121
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book The First Miscarriage of Justice written by Jon Robins and published by Waterside Press. This book was released on 2014-10-20 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘I would have been the first miscarriage of justice… There was this spate of cases: the Birmingham Six, Guildford Four and Cardiff Three. Each one was another nail in my coffin’: Tony Stock, 2008. The story of Tony Stock is astonishing: deeply disturbing it sent out ripples of disquiet when he was sentenced to ten years for robbery at Leeds Assizes in 1970. Over the next 40 years the case went to the Court of Appeal four times and has the distinction of being the first to have been referred to that court twice by the Criminal Cases Review Commission. Tony Stock died in 2012 still fighting to clear his name: spending from his meagre savings to hire private investigators and hoping beyond hope to see justice. Reviews ‘The story of Tony Stock should be mandatory reading for everyone, not merely those involved with the laws. It concerns the quality of our criminal justice system and its serious reluctance and unwillingness to root out injustice’: Michael Mansfield QC. ‘One of the most outrageous miscarriages of justice of modern times’: Barry Sheerman, Labour MP for Huddersfield. In the Press ‘If anyone seriously believes the Court of Appeal has reformed itself since the dark days of the Birmingham Six and Bridgewater Four, they should study the unreported and amazing case of Tony Stock’: Private Eye. ‘I would have thought that the injustice done to Tony (Stock) was fairly self-evident and yet his conviction still stands. I find this very difficult to accept’: Ralph Barrington, investigations adviser at the Criminal Cases Review Commission. ‘The fight for justice that will not die’: Yorkshire Post.

Underworld

Author : Duncan Campbell
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473566096
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Underworld written by Duncan Campbell and published by Random House. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Live on the wrong side of the law with Britain’s gangsters, Peaky Blinders, godfathers, robbers, informers, kingpins, vice lords and career criminals ***The Sunday Times Bestseller *** With stories of murder, theft, fraud and treachery, The Underworld is a deep-dive into the history of professional and organised crime in Britain. From the racetrack gangs and the smash-and-grab merchants, through the Soho vice bosses and the Kray twins, to the Great Train Robbers, the Hatton Garden burglars and the new wave of international hit-men and drug and sex traffickers, Duncan Campbell exposes the dark underbelly of Britain. A unique perspective – told by the criminals themselves and the detective who pursued them – this is a definitive history from the very beginning to the present day.

Investigative Reporting

Author : David Spark
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1136029451
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Investigative Reporting written by David Spark and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important book defines what investigative reporting is and what qualities it requires. Drawing on the experience of many well-known journalists in the field, the author identifies the skills, common factors and special circumstances involved in a wide variety of investigations. It examines how opportunities for investigations can be found and pursued, how informants can be persuaded to yield needed information and how and where this information can be checked. It also stresses the dangers and legal constraints that have to be contended with and shows real life examples such as the Cook Report formula, the Jonathan Aitken investigation and the Birmingham Six story. David Spark, himself a freelance writer of wide experience, examines how opportunities for investigations can be found and pursued, how informants can be persuaded to yield needed information and how and where this information can be checked. He also stresses the dangers and legal constraints that have to be contended with and shows investigators at work in two classic inquiries: · The mysterious weekend spent in Paris by Jonathan Aitken, then Minister of Defence Procurement · The career of masterspy Kim Philby Investigative Reporting looks at such fields for inquiry as company frauds (including those of Robert Maxwell), consumer complaints, crime, police malpractice, the intelligence services, local government and corruption in Parliament and in overseas and international bodies. The author believes that the conclusions that emerge from this far-reaching survey are of value not only in investigative journalism, but to practitioners in all branches of reporting.

The Politics of the Police

Author : Robert Reiner
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199283397
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of the Police written by Robert Reiner and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010-03-04 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fourth edition of Robert Reiner's popular and highly-acclaimed text contains substantial revisions, to take into account the recent and profound changes in the law, policy and organisation of policing.

McNae's Essential Law for Journalists

Author : Sian Harrison
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192663526
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book McNae's Essential Law for Journalists written by Sian Harrison and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-10 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Affectionately known simply as McNae's, this book prevails as journalism's most succinct authority on media law since its inception in 1954. The new edition captures the essence of this hotly debated and evolving area of law. The authors' expertise in media reporting and teaching ensures McNae's is accessible for students and journalists, giving you the essentials and encouraging intellectual acuity as the complexities of the law are laid bare. McNae's practical approach includes features that highlight important information, such as case detail, need-to-know points, and cross references that explore how different elements of the law interact with each other. Published in partnership with the National Council for the Training of Journalists, McNae's is an indispensable media law guide that imbues confidence in students and supports and assures journalists undertaking their everyday work. Digital formats and resources The twenty-sixth edition is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats, and is supported with online resources. - The e-book offers a mobile experience and convenient access along with functionality tools, navigation features, and links that offer extra learning support: www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooks - Comprehensive online resources accompany the text. Visit www.mcnaes.com to access new self-test questions with feedback to solidify students' understanding, regular updates from the authors to keep readers abreast of the law, and additional material on important topics within the book.

The Royal Court Theatre and the Modern Stage

Author : Philip Roberts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521474388
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book The Royal Court Theatre and the Modern Stage written by Philip Roberts and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-11-25 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the leading forum of the modern stage; includes Foreword by former Director of the Royal Court, Max Stafford-Clark.

Entrepreneurship in Policing and Criminal Contexts

Author : Robert Smith
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1800710585
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Entrepreneurship in Policing and Criminal Contexts written by Robert Smith and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entrepreneurship in Policing and Criminal Contexts explores the contemporary and under researched themes of ‘entrepreneurial policing’ and ‘entrepreneurialism in criminal justice contexts’ which are emerging topics of both theoretical and practical interest in the current rapidly changing criminal justice environment.

Rise And Fall Of The Murdoch Empire

Author : John Lisners
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782194274
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Rise And Fall Of The Murdoch Empire written by John Lisners and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rupert Murdoch - ruthless visionary, empire builder and business genius. He has created a global media network which has made him one of the most powerful and influential figures in the world. So potent was the force of his empire that he was even on first-name terms with presidents and prime ministers - superpowers were only a telephone call away. But just recently, rather than controlling the news, Murdoch has instead become the front-page story as the world had been gripped by the unfolding drama of the News International phone hacking scandal.

Parliamentary Debates (Hansard).

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 928 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains the 4th session of the 28th Parliament through the session of the Parliament.

Examining Intelligence-Led Policing

Author : A. James
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137307374
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Examining Intelligence-Led Policing written by A. James and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a critical analysis of the employment of intelligence-led policing (ILP) strategies. It aims to convey a better understanding of some of the realities of the police investigative and criminal intelligence worlds, and to examine what the story of intelligence-led policing tells us about policing and the police organization.