A unique description of late crime on the railways across the 1970s, '80s and '90s - gangsters, politics, and police culture Now in his sixties, a former international executive with Microsoft Corporation and GlaxoSmithKline, Graham Satchwell, looks back on his time as a Transport Policeman across an impressive career. The book follows his progress from the time, in 1968, when, aged 18, as an unqualified labourer, he cheated to pass the police entrance exam. With extensive use of anecdotes his promotions to every rank within the CID are described with wit and brutal honesty. He became a sergeant at 21, an instructor at 24 and detective sergeant at 27. The account ends, after 31years, at the end of the last century, when as a lawyer and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, he was actually refused permission to retire from the Force. Dollops of humour, painful truth and a vivid description of the macho policing culture of the time. AUTHOR: Graham Satchwell is a former Detective Superintendent, British Transport Police (Police Service 1968- 1999). He received official commendations for detective work from HM Judges, chief constables, the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Lord Lieutenant of London. He is a former full-time lecturer at the Police Staff College, Bramshill, Hampshire, providing leadership training to senior police officers. Now retired, he has conducted numerous television and radio interviews and is enjoying a new career writing. SELLING POINTS: ? Often hilarious, always gripping memoirs by Britain's once senior-most railway detective ? Frank and intimate recollections bring escapades to life ? Includes memories of the alarming Southall train crash, the kidnap of a young girl, train robberies by some of the most notorious gangsters in the country, bomb threats, terrorism, petty crime, police incompetence, and the odd politician 16 b/w illustrations
