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It's been called "The Greatest Book about Policing
ever written" ........ and it was written by a Burton Policeman ........ about life in Burton
on Trent!
PC DAVID COPPERFIELD is an ordinary beat
bobby quietly waging the war on crime...when he gets time. He's usually drowning in a sea of
paperwork, government initiatives and bogus targets.
Wasting Police Time is his hilarious but shocking picture of
life in a modern British town (that we now know is Burton on Trent). It's a
world where teenage yobs terrorise old folks, drunken couples beat each other up in front of
their children and drug-addicted burglars and muggers roam free.
PC Copperfield reveals how millions and millions of pounds in
taxpayers' money is wasted and frittered away while the thin blue line is crushed under the
burden of mad, politically correct bureaucracy, as crime statistics are fiddled shamelessly (he
explains how) and crime spirals ever upwards (he shows why).
It's the first time a British policeman has addressed these
issues in a book. PC Copperfield's internet diary, Coppersblog, is essential reading for many
thousands of people. It has won online writing awards and attracted rave reviews for its dry
wit from The Sunday Times, The Guardian, The Observer and The Daily Telegraph. The Mail on
Sunday ran 10,000 words from the blog across three full pages. He brings the same incisive,
acid humour to bear in Wasting Police Time. 'Never, ever call the police,' he writes, 'because
we won't help you. My advice is this: buy a gun and never open the door to any government
official again.' His advice may not go down well with the Home Secretary, or PC Copperfield's
own Chief Constable, but it will certainly strike a chord with a million serving and retired
police officers and millions of ordinary Britons ...... and certainly many
Burtonians!
You can find more information about "Wasting Police Time" and
buy the book from the Publishers website HERE.
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