Scotland Yard's Flying Squad (ePub)
100 Years of Crime Fighting
(Sprache: Englisch)
A history of the famed London police unit, by a former member and author who "knows how to bring his coppers to life on each page" (Joseph Wambaugh, New York Times-bestselling author of The Onion Field).
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A history of the famed London police unit, by a former member and author who "knows how to bring his coppers to life on each page" (Joseph Wambaugh, New York Times-bestselling author of The Onion Field).
Since 1919, Scotland Yard's Flying Squad has been in the forefront of the war against crime. From patrolling London's streets in horse-drawn wagons, it has progressed to the use of the most sophisticated surveillance and crime-fighting equipment. The Squad targeted protection gangs who infested British racecourses and greyhound tracks, and later the highly effective Ghost Squad was formed to tackle black-marketeering in the aftermath of the Second World War.
As crime soared in the 1950s and '60s the Flying Squad, or C8 Department as it was now known, became involved in the most serious cases nationwide-The Great Train Robbery, the Brink's-Mat robbery, The Millennium Dome and Hatton Garden heists. Today the ruthless drug and people trafficking gangs that seek rich pickings in London and elsewhere are in their sights.
Despite many high-profile successes, allegations of corruption have haunted the Flying Squad, and after the conviction of officers in 2001 there was a very real possibility of disbandment. Yet this most famous of police units survived-and today continues to fight and be feared by the hardest of criminals. This book draws on firsthand accounts to tell the Flying Squad's thrilling story, and includes a foreword by John O'Connor, a former commander.
"A book that true crime aficionados will want to read." -Washington Times
Since 1919, Scotland Yard's Flying Squad has been in the forefront of the war against crime. From patrolling London's streets in horse-drawn wagons, it has progressed to the use of the most sophisticated surveillance and crime-fighting equipment. The Squad targeted protection gangs who infested British racecourses and greyhound tracks, and later the highly effective Ghost Squad was formed to tackle black-marketeering in the aftermath of the Second World War.
As crime soared in the 1950s and '60s the Flying Squad, or C8 Department as it was now known, became involved in the most serious cases nationwide-The Great Train Robbery, the Brink's-Mat robbery, The Millennium Dome and Hatton Garden heists. Today the ruthless drug and people trafficking gangs that seek rich pickings in London and elsewhere are in their sights.
Despite many high-profile successes, allegations of corruption have haunted the Flying Squad, and after the conviction of officers in 2001 there was a very real possibility of disbandment. Yet this most famous of police units survived-and today continues to fight and be feared by the hardest of criminals. This book draws on firsthand accounts to tell the Flying Squad's thrilling story, and includes a foreword by John O'Connor, a former commander.
"A book that true crime aficionados will want to read." -Washington Times
Autoren-Porträt von Dick Kirby
Dick Kirby was born in the East End of London and joined the Metropolitan Police in 1967. Half of his twenty-six years' service was spent with Scotland Yard's Serious Crime Squad and the Flying Squad. Kirby contributes to newspapers and magazines on a regular basis, as well as appearing on television and radio. The Guv'nors, The Sweeney, Scotland Yard's Ghost Squad, Brave Line Death on the Beat, Scourge of Soho, Crime and Corruption at The Yard and London Gangs at War are all published under the Wharncliffe True Crime imprint and he has further other published works to his credit. On retirement he lives near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Kirby can be visited at his website: www.dickkirby.com.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Dick Kirby
- 2021, 288 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: PEN & SWORD BOOKS
- ISBN-10: 152675214X
- ISBN-13: 9781526752147
- Erscheinungsdatum: 08.01.2021
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- Größe: 16 MB
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