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Download or read book Bent Coppers written by Graeme McLagan and published by Orion. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inside story of a secret unit that has worked under cover to expose corruption in the Metropolitan Police since the early 1990s - written by Graeme McLagan, contributor to THE REAL LINE OF DUTY. 'If you want a book that is genuinely 'unputdownable' read BENT COPPERS' Johnny Vaughan, THE SUN 'A very engaging read - the outrageous nature of bent cops' behaviour guarantees that' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH Shocked by the extent of corruption within its ranks, Scotland Yard set up a new anti-corruption unit in the early 1990s. Its members had to operate in conditions of unprecedented secrecy and they became known as the 'Ghost Squad'. Bent Coppers really did believe they were untouchable: they stole cash and property, fitted-up innocent people and sold secret information to cripple court cases. Many of the bent coppers are now in jail or awaiting trial but the battle against corruption is not over. Only now can the story of the 'Ghost Squad' be revealed. Award-winning BBC home affairs correspondent Graeme McLagan had followed the investigation since the beginning. He has interviewed undercover officers and many of the bent coppers they have exposed. this is the inside story of the 'Ghost Squad' and how it broke into the secret world of police corruption.
Book Synopsis Bent Coppers: The Story of The Man Who Arrested John Lennon, George Harrison and Brian Jones by : Norman Pilcher
Download or read book Bent Coppers: The Story of The Man Who Arrested John Lennon, George Harrison and Brian Jones written by Norman Pilcher and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Line of Duty - the Real Story of British Police Corruption by : Wensley Clarkson
Download or read book Line of Duty - the Real Story of British Police Corruption written by Wensley Clarkson and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True stories of police corruption, bent coppers and the secret units who hunt them.
Download or read book The Matriarch written by Adrian Tame and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-06-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kathy Pettingill is a name that’s both respected and feared, not only by Australia’s criminal underworld, but by many in the Victorian police force. As the matriarch at the head of the most notorious and violent family of habitual offenders in Australian criminal history, her life has revolved around murder, drugs, prison, prostitution and bent coppers – and the intrigue and horror that surround such crimes. Her eldest son, Dennis Allen, was a mass murderer and a $70,000-a-week drug dealer who dismembered a Hell’s Angel with a chainsaw. Two younger sons were acquitted of the Walsh Street murders, the cold-blooded assassination of two police officers that changed the face of crime in Melbourne forever. One of the two, Victor, was gunned down himself in the street 14 years later, becoming the third son Kathy has buried. In this revised and updated authorised edition of Adrian Tame’s bestselling The Matriarch, Kathy Pettingill reveals the chilling truth behind many of the myths and legends that surround her family, including her experiences in the blood-spattered charnel house at the centre of Dennis Allen’s empire of drugs and violence. But this is no plea for pity. Forthright and deeply disturbing, like its subject, The Matriarch pulls no punches. Updated and revised for a new generation, this true crime classic is as terrifying and powerful as when it was first published.
Download or read book Guns and Gangs written by Graeme McLagan and published by Allison & Busby. This book was released on 2013-10-19 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unprecedented investigation into the shocking realities of gun crime on Britain's streets, "Guns and Gangs" lifts the lid on a hugely important modern-day problem - an expensive problem both in terms of money and young lives. After terrorism, the single greatest worry for law enforcement agencies is gun crime, and in particular 'black on black' shootings. McLagan has had exclusive access to police files and case histories. Alongside his findings from these records are interviews with police officers, victims and their families, witnesses, lawyers and perpetrators of gun crime. The result is a unique, fascinating and horrifying expose of the disturbing truth behind this plague on our streets.
Book Synopsis Sir, You Bastard by : Gordon F. Newman
Download or read book Sir, You Bastard written by Gordon F. Newman and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Untouchables written by Michael Gillard and published by Bloomsbury Reader. This book was released on 2012-04-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Scotland Yard in the dock, now more than ever the public needs to know why the police cannot be trusted to investigate their own corruption. Untouchables, a five year investigation which the Yard tried to stop, provides the essential context to the phone hacking and other scandals currently engulfing Britain's most powerful police force. Republished after seven years, it was the first book to question the cosy relationship between the Yard and sections of the media, to explain why cops are incapable of investigating themselves and to expose the lack of independence in the new police watchdog. From the 1983 Brinks Matt robbery, through the murders of Daniel Morgan, David Norris, Stephen Lawrence, Jill Dando and Damilola Taylor to the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, Untouchables reveals the cover ups, double standards and miscarriages of justice during the Yard's phoney war on corruption. Sunday Times journalist Michael Gillard and TV producer Laurie Flynn expose how the discredited use of supergrasses in the war on corruption has re-emerged in the new wars on terror and crime, with the same disastrous effects: prosecution misconduct, collapsed trials, huge bills for the taxpayer, victims left without justice and the guilty walking free.
Book Synopsis The Exploding Galaxy by : Jill Drower
Download or read book The Exploding Galaxy written by Jill Drower and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: However you describe the Exploders, they certainly made their mark on London's flower child counterculture. Jill Drower, who was a founder member of the group, tells the fascinating story of how it took 60s London by storm. Were they ... A living artwork? A confluence of transmedia activators? Britains answer to anarchy in dance? A brave rebuttal of schizoid aesthetics? This book attempts to address these questions about London's most notorious performance art troupe.
Book Synopsis Supergrasses & Informers and Bent Coppers Omnibus by : James Morton
Download or read book Supergrasses & Informers and Bent Coppers Omnibus written by James Morton and published by Little Brown GBR. This book was released on 2002 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an omnibus edition of two books about how the police force works. In the first, Morton unravels the tangled history of key players, including Bertie Smalls, the original supergrass, and his successor, "King Squealer" Maurice O'Mahony. The second is a study of police corruption in the UK.
Book Synopsis Crossing the Line of Duty by : Neil Root
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.
Book Synopsis Studying the British Crime Film by : Paul Elliott
Download or read book Studying the British Crime Film written by Paul Elliott and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since its inception, British cinema has been obsessed with crime and the criminal. One of the first narrative films to be produced in Britain, the Hepworth's 1905 short Rescued by Rover, was a fast-paced, quick-edited tale of abduction and kidnap, and the first British sound film, Alfred Hitchcock's Blackmail (1930), centered on murder and criminal guilt. For a genre seemingly so important to the British cinematic character, there is little direct theoretical or historical work focused on it. The Britain of British cinema is often written about in terms of national history, ethnic diversity, or cultural tradition, yet very rarely in terms of its criminal tendencies and dark underbelly. This volume assumes that, to know how British cinema truly works, it is necessary to pull back the veneer of the costume piece, the historical drama, and the rom-com and glimpse at what is underneath. For every Brief Encounter (1945) there is a Brighton Rock (2010), for every Notting Hill (1999) there is a Long Good Friday (1980).
Book Synopsis Bent Coppers a Pbp by : James Morton
Download or read book Bent Coppers a Pbp written by James Morton and published by . This book was released on 1999-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Investigative Reporting by : David Spark
Download or read book Investigative Reporting written by David Spark and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 287 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.
Download or read book Nineteen Eighty written by David Peace and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuing the narrative begun with Nineteen Seventy-Four and Nineteen Seventy-Seven, this electrifying third installment of David Peace’s Red Riding Quartet demonstrates a skill that goes above and beyond the limits of the genre. While Yorkshire is terrorized by the Ripper, the corrupt police continue to prosper. To give the case some new life, Peter Hunter, a “clean” cop from nearby Manchester, is brought in to offer a fresh perspective. As he goes about setting up a new case under the radar, he suffers the same fate as those who previously attempted to get in the way of the Ripper: his house is burned down, his wife threatened. But he soldiers on. And as he comes face to face with unthinkable evil, Hunter struggles to maintain his reputation, his sanity, and his life.
Book Synopsis Bend It Like Bullard by : Jimmy Bullard
Download or read book Bend It Like Bullard written by Jimmy Bullard and published by Headline. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jimmy Bullard may not have had the perfect hair-do, his Granada Ghia may not have been the flashiest of cars, and he definitely didn't have a string of Page 3 girls trying to sell kiss and tell stories about him to the tabloids. But what he has in spades is a genuine love for The Beautiful Game that few of his peers can match. One of the last graduates from football's old school, Jimmy actually worked in the real world - including as a painter and decorator - before turning pro. Maybe that's why he played football with a smile on his face, always says what's on his mind, and is no stranger to a spot of mischief. Having played under the likes of Barry Fry, Harry Redknapp and Phil Brown, appeared alongside names as diverse as Neil Ruddock and Paolo di Canio, and as long as Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink, Jimmy has racked up an amazing collection of tales and pranks both on and off the football front-line. Told with candour, Bend It Like Bullard is the extraordinary story of his journey from cable TV fitter to cult hero. It will make you smile, chuckle and, occasionally, ROFL.
Download or read book Legacy written by Michael Gillard and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Reveals criminal corruption on a scale that the Kray twins would never have dreamt of' John Pearson, Profession of Violence, The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins 'Gillard's detailed investigation makes for a stunning and shocking read' Barry Keeffe, The Long Good Friday 'Legacy illustrates the sordid links between business, politics and organised crime' Ioan Grillo, El Narco and Gangster Warlords When billions poured into the neglected east London borough hosting the 2012 Olympics, a turf war broke out between crime families for control of a now valuable strip of land. Using violence, guile and corruption, one gangster, the Long Fella, emerged as a true untouchable. A team of local detectives made it their business to take him on until Scotland Yard threw them under the bus and the business of putting on 'the greatest show on earth' won the day. Protecting the Olympic legacy by covering up a scandal of suspicious deaths and corruption seemed more important than protecting Londoners from the predatory Long Fella and his friends in suits. For others at Scotland Yard, the crime lord was simply too big and too dangerous to take on. Award-winning journalist Michael Gillard took up where they left off to expose the tangled web of chief executives, big banks, politicians and dirty money where innocent lives are destroyed and the guilty flourish. Gillard's efforts culminated in a landmark court case, which finally put a spotlight on the Long Fella and his friends and exposed London's real Olympic legacy.
Book Synopsis The Mammoth Book of Undercover Cops by : Paul Copperwaite
Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Undercover Cops written by Paul Copperwaite and published by C & R Crime. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edgy revelations and revealing first-hand accounts, including the inspirations for popular TV dramas as diverse as The Wire, The Sopranos and Life on Mars. Terrorists, criminal gangs, drug-dealing lawyers, solitary psychos and suspected serial killers all feature as the intended targets in these cops' tales. Using fake identities and complex back-stories, dependent on teamwork to keep one step away from exposure, torture and death, the subjects of this book describe in vivid detail what it is like to cultivate contacts and gather evidence in major prosecutions: in the UK, Northern Ireland, the USA and around the world.
