Robroy
June 5, 2021
Act One. The police services in Britain have always provided popular material for the makers of fiction and documentaries on the big and small screen……Over…
June 3, 2021
The River Thames can be a very dangerous place….And that is so whether you have two legs or four…..In my 17 years working as a…
May 29, 2021
Gradually Garry’s training games and exercises began to pay dividends and slowly….very slowly, my boat handling began to improve. Garry was particularly adept at taking…
May 23, 2021
With my two weeks on the Basic Boat Handling course now behind me I paraded for my first tour of duty at Wapping Police Station…
May 7, 2021
I paraded for my very first day of duty at Wapping on a Monday morning in early April 1988 along with five other successful applicants;…
April 27, 2021
And so it was that I found myself parading at Wapping Police Station in a neatly pressed uniform and polished shoes with eleven other applicants,…
April 19, 2021
After four and a half years on the Diplomatic Protection Group, I began to feel as if I needed a change of role and scenery….The…
April 13, 2021
Most of my work during my five years in the Diplomatic Protection Group was fairly mundane and was spent looking after various diplomatic premises in…
April 5, 2021
When I first joined the police aged nineteen, one of the first things that we were told at training college was “No matter how good…
March 29, 2021
If there is one area in which the British can be relied upon to excel, it is in the field of pomp and pageantry. In…