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Author: Dick Kirby Publisher: Pen & Sword True Crime ISBN: 9781526752178 Category : History Languages : en Pages :
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Published to coincide with the Flying Squad's CentenaryNo-holds barred history of the most celebrated police unit in the CountryWritten by acclaimed ex-Scotland Yard author with unrivalled contacts.Gripping accounts of police investigations into notorious crimes and criminals.The Flying Squad's exploits have been frequently dramatised by TV, film and other media.Strong possibility of supporting TV documentary and serialisation
Author: Dick Kirby Publisher: Pen & Sword True Crime ISBN: 9781526752178 Category : History Languages : en Pages :
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Published to coincide with the Flying Squad's CentenaryNo-holds barred history of the most celebrated police unit in the CountryWritten by acclaimed ex-Scotland Yard author with unrivalled contacts.Gripping accounts of police investigations into notorious crimes and criminals.The Flying Squad's exploits have been frequently dramatised by TV, film and other media.Strong possibility of supporting TV documentary and serialisation
Author: Dick Kirby Publisher: Casemate Publishers ISBN: 1848849982 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 331
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The story of sixty years of Scotland Yards top crime-busting department has been written over a twenty year period by a former detective who spent over eight years with the Flying Squad The Sweeney.The meticulous research by the author has uncovered files never before released by the Yard and he has amassed the tales of bravery and top-notch investigations, carried out by the Squad officers of yesteryear.The book commences with the dramatic account of the daring gold bullion and jewellery raid in 1948 by a gang of well-organised criminals from the newly-opened Heathrow Airport. The Flying Squad were lying in wait for them and what happened next, was described by a judge at the Old Bailey as, The Battle of Heathrow.The Flying Squad was formed to stem the tide of lawlessness, following the First World War; from humble beginnings using horse-drawn wagons, they swiftly progressed to high-speed cars. Taking on the might of the Racetrack Gangs, armed robbers and smash & grab raiders, the Squad was brought to the forefront of the publics attention.The war years, the secret post-war Ghost Squad, the horse-doping scandals, the Great Train Robbery, the Bank of America robbery, Supergrasses and corruption are recounted with its scrupulous attention to detail. The book is filled with thrilling, amusing and always compelling anecdotes from the men who were there. It was the Flying Squad who inspired the popular TV series. This book reveals what life was really like in The Sweeney.
Author: Dick Kirby Publisher: Pen and Sword ISBN: 152675214X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 373
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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
Author: Graeme McLagan Publisher: Hachette UK ISBN: 1409129276 Category : True Crime Languages : en Pages : 328
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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.
Author: Dick Kirby Publisher: Casemate Publishers ISBN: 1848849729 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 302
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The ten Scotland Yard detectives, featured in The Guvnors, are unique. Such a group of intrepid crime-busters will never exist again. They possessed only the most rudimentary education; none had a degree. Intuition and knowledge of their manor counted for more than DNA and databases. They worked tirelessly in the pursuit of criminals, used informants, worked on hunches and grabbed hold of investigations and shook them until every piece of evidence was unearthed. Criminals trembled when these detectives were after them because, once they were nicked, they stayed nicked.The Guvnors covers legends such as Fred Wensley, who nailed strips of bicycle tyres to the soles of his boots when on the look-out for Jack the Ripper. He later formed the Flying Squad and became chief constable of the CID. Fred Sharpe would single-handedly confront forty of the worst racetrack gangsters and tell them to clear off, anyone who refused would collect a punch on the jaw. Sharpe later became head of the Flying Squad, as did Bob Fabian, who was awarded the Kings Police Medal for dismantling an IRA bomb.Bert Wickstead, known as The Gangbuster, literally terrorised the gangs who attempted to fill the void in Londons East End, after the demise of the Kray bothers.This is a book which will delight those who want to know what life was like when The Guvnors and others like them were in charge of law and order and the streets were far safer than they are today.
Author: David I. Woodland Publisher: Pen and Sword ISBN: 1473857406 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 316
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A Scotland Yard insider blows the whistle on police corruption in “a book . . . that everyone concerned with law and order should read” (Crime Review). During David Woodland’s nineteen years of service with the United Kingdom’s Metropolitan Police, the ‘thin blue line’ came under intense pressure. In addition to the routine caseload of gang crime, murder, and armed robbery, Irish terrorist groups launched a vicious and prolonged campaign of violence. Also, then-Police Commissioner Sir Robert Marks described the Criminal Intelligence Department as ‘the most routinely corrupt organization in London’, it may have been an exaggeration made out of anger—but it devastated the public’s faith in the CID. New Scotland Yard Det. Inspector David Woodland was witness to a series of major scandals and now reveals why many otherwise honest detectives strove to bend the law to their own devices. Using his own cases and experience, he demonstrates the difficulties working in a depleted, demoralized police force—not to mention fighting to overcome ‘the enemy within’. Crime and Corruption at The Yard is a gripping, shocking, and instructive insider’s account of the darker side of police work.
Author: Edgar Wallace Publisher: House of Stratus ISBN: 0755121449 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 263
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The creek flows under a house inhabited by smuggler Li Yoseph. The neighbourhood suspects he is rich, and knows he is mad. Mark McGill and the nervous Tiser arrive with Ann Perryman, sister of Ronnie. According to Mark, Bradly of Scotland Yard is responsible for Ronnie's death. Then Li Yoseph disappears...
Author: Dick Kirby Publisher: Constable ISBN: 9781841199115 Category : Criminal investigation Languages : en Pages : 288
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From his bruising initial experience of giving evidence to the feat of securing Britain's first double-supergrass, Dick Kirby re-tells, with a strong dose of humour, the trials and tribulations of a career fighting crime, in which, of 40 commendations he received, over half were for the arrest of armed robbers. He plunges us straight into the underworld, pulling no punches. His tales of how life in the force used to be are sometimes shocking, sometimes blackly funny and always compelling.
Author: Jock Murray Publisher: Birlinn ISBN: 0857900870 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 256
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Jock Murray looks back over an extraordinary and varied life in this entertaining autobiography. From humble beginnings on a croft in the Outer Hebrides, at the age of fifteen he went on to work in the Hydro tunnels on the mainland as the Hydro-Electric board embarked on some of the most ambitious civil engineering projects of the century. By seventeen he had sailed several times round the world and spent two years as a whaler in the Antarctic. And over a long career in the Metropolitan Police he served on 6 Divisions as well as in specialised squads (regional crime squad, flying squad, stolen car squad, central drug squad as well as several murder squads), which gave him an intimate and unrivalled knowledge of the murkier aspects of London life. In 1977 he was involved in Operation Ohio as the police dealt with a major and vicious spate of armed robbery in the Midlands and south of England. Since returning to Lewis he has maintained a high profile, both for his charity work (he has raised money for Leukaemia research and the Anthony Nolan Trust) as well as more controversial things, such as serving alcohol in his pub on Sundays and campaigning for Sunday flights and ferries. All this, and much more, is covered in this witty and amusing memoir which is bound to appeal to Hebrideans both at home and abroad, as well those with an interest in true crime and all readers who appreciate the story of those with a remarkable zest for life.
Author: Dick Kirby
Author: Dick Kirby
Author: Dick Kirby
Author: Dick Kirby
Author: Graeme McLagan
Author: Dick Kirby
Author: David I. Woodland
Author: Edgar Wallace
Author: Dick Kirby
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Author: Jock Murray