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Don Randal MBE was born in Dartford and joined the City Of London Police cadets. He loved his time as a cadet and recalls this time with fondness. His adventures with the cadets included a canoe race from Devizes to Westminster and an 18 mile run from Barnstable to Croyde Bay. He was also part of the team that were National Life Guards Champions. Don became a regular officer in the City Of London...

Peter Baylis  took a lot of the earliest photos of  The Police  in  1977 . He photographed them at the  Roxy  on  1977-06-17  and then the following day at Covent Garden. His photos can be seen in  L'Historia Bandido ,  The Police: A Visual Documentary by Miles  and  Secret Police Man . He also photographed  The Police  on ...

Peter Baylis is from the Metropolitan suburb of Bexley. He left school and pursued his career in photography by starting in a processing lab. He learned his craft by taking as many photographs as possible and submitting them to photo editors and hope that they would use the image for a story. During his career Peter has photographed the great and the good. His first interaction with a celebrity wa...

CALLING SERGEANT CROCKFORD: The Story of a Pioneering Policewoman in the 1960s will be published by Welbeck on 1 March 2024. CALLING DETECTIVE CROCKFORD: The Story of a Pioneering Policewoman in the 1950s was published by Welbeck on 2 March 2023. CALLING WPC CROCKFORD: The Story of a 1950s Policewoman was published by Welbeck on 3 March 2022.    In 1951, at the age of 21, Gwendoline...

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Jackie is a former DCI with the metropolitan Police. She started her career in Leicestershire she now works within the true crime world. Whilst in the Police she advised some of the most iconic police dramas on the television. Jackie was the inspiration for Lynda La Plantes character DCI Jane Tennison in Prime Suspect. Jackie joined the police as a cadet and on the 7th July 1970 she was sworn in a...

Jackie Malton fights tirelessly to bring the killer of Vishal Mehrotra to justice. Vishal Mehrotra  (27 September 1972 – on or after 29 July 1981) was an eight-year-old boy who was  abducted  from  Putney , London, England, on 29 July 1981. [ The child's partial remains were discovered on 25 February 1982 on an isolated farm in  Sussex . The killers were never identif...

Tristram Hicks was a member of the UK asset recovery committee from 2002 to 2012, directing the multi-agency strategy to implement the famous Proceeds of Crime Act. His strategic role was combined with operational command. He joined the police as a constable in 1985, retiring as detective superintendent in 2012. By 1999 he was head of financial intelligence at Scotland Yard, leading teams of field...

PS Derek Robertson was married with two young children. He had been an officer since 1973 and had been posted to South Norwood for three years. Alerted by the wife of the postmaster at New Addington Post Office to an incident, PS Robertson and other officers responded. PS Robertson went to the side of the Post Office where he saw three men escaping. He tackled them and was stabbed in the ensuing s...

Peter Moule joined the Police on 22nd December 1975. He went to Ashford Police Training College for his training and his first wage packet was £127 for the month. This was significantly lower than his wages from Eastern Electricity. His first posting was Colchester, and his first duties was to watch the rear gate to ensure security was maintained during the heightened IRA activity. It was during t...

Simon Ovens was born in 1967 at St Georges hospital on Hyde Park Corner which is now the Luxury Lainsborough Hotel. At 19½ Simon joined the Metropolitan Police and commenced his residential training. His inspiration to join was Shaw Taylor on Police 5. Simon recalls patrolling in Tunics and helmets using a VDRS and HORTI book to perform his duties. Image and standards are large part of Simons prof...

Andy was born in Scotland and during his student days he had an encounter with the Police which inspired him to join West Midland Police. After 6 years he decided to transfer to Strathclyde Police. He had to retrain at the Strathclyde Police Training College. There was a significant difference between the volume of crimes from drug related deaths, murders and violence compared to Coventry. Andy co...

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Andy Petherick is a keen fisherman from South Wales. He won a scholarship to Wycliffe College in Gloucester, his entrance exam included fishing and shooting. The Combined Cadet Force was run by Major Wes Thomas. Major Thomas put Andy on to the tracks by old fashioned methods! At the conclusion of his education attempted to pursue a career in the Army. He was unsuccessful in his application to beco...

Paul was born in East London and played in the streets close to his beloved West Ham United. By the age of 8 he had already made his mind up that he was going to be in the military. His first choice was the Royal Marines but the recruiting office that he went to steered him towards the 9th /12th Lancers. He eventually trained in the Royal Tank Regiment and then transferred to the Blues and Royals....

In April 1982 Argentina invaded the Falklands. I have had the chance to interview four members of the task force who sailed from the UK to liberate the Falklands. Adrian Tudway, Keith Dobson, Steve Hutley and Brian Short were young men when they went to war. I have put snapshots of their interviews in this compilation and their full interviews can be found in the episode menu Hosted on Acast. See...

This interview contains graphic description of road traffic casualties. Sharon was born into a Scottish family. Travel was second nature as a child due her fathers work and lived in Hong Kong and Malaya as a child. Having concluded her education Sharon was working as a nanny to a family who were serving Police officers. After 4 years she decided, aged 22, that she would join the metropolitan polic...

On 8th April 2024 I was invited into BBC Essex to be interviewed by Akylah Rodriguez - If you want to take part in my podcast then please email admin@ex-job.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

David always wanted to serve with the Police and in 1982, just after his 18th birthday he applied for and was accepted to the Merseyside Special Constabulary. He carried out all of the roles expected of a special and more! in 1996 he became a special constabulary Chief Officer and worked directly with policing greats such as Sir Norman Bettison , Sir Paul Stephenson , Lord Bernard Hogan Howe and J...

Jan Szymczuk was born in the North East and is an ardent Newcastle United Fan. His parents were born in Poland and his father fought against the Nazis as a paratrooper. He joined the Metropolitan Police in March 1979. He was posted to Marylebone and whilst on foot patrol a robbery had been committed on a Saudi Arabian Bank. Whilst talking to the witnesses Jan decided that he would draw the suspect...

Lesley Kirk was born in the Scottish town of Greenock. She decided to join Strathclyde Police and to her surprise she was posted to Greenock. When she joined, she was asked her biggest fears of being posted to Greenock and she stated that attending a road accident and a a sudden death. Both fears were realised within the first few hours of being on shift. Her tutor constable made it very clear tha...

Fay Hepworth was born during the 2nd world war. Initially her family were living with her grandmother close to Silverstone in Northamptonshire. Fays father was a captain in the army and had served with the hussars and had seen action in North Africa. The family moved to Northern Ireland where Fay went to school. Fay is a lover of classical music and as a natural academic she absolutely loved schoo...

Bob Sherwood is the son of a former Metropolitan Police Officer. He joined the cadets in 1971the training was based around the military style. Former guards were the instructors. There were no women on the course, and the Women’s Police service was still in place. At the conclusion of his cadet training, he went to Sunbury and posted to Rochester Row. As a keen sportsman he played football for the...

Dr Bob Sherwood - former Police Officer and now Holocaust Historian Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Scott McCallum comes from a family who have served his grandfather was a Regimental Sergeant Major. He joined the Police in 1989 and commenced his service in St Thomas Ontario. Scott managed to be a member of the Army Reserve and served in the Military Police. Scott recounts his time in the service as the atrocities of 9/11 unfolded – He was ready to go on the radio as a Crimestoppers co-ordinator...