Police Commander by James Marchbank
James Marchbank
4 Stars
Pages: 253
Published: 29 November 2021
Publisher's Blurb
James Marchbank was born in the Yorkshire Dales and reared in industrial West Yorkshire. His early years culminated in kidnap by the Moonies in New York, picking tobacco in Canada and inadvertently smuggling drugs into the United States.
Having joined the Police, he quickly spoke with the dead, impaled a body with a grappling hook and witnessed a fish cycle along a main street. He spent a year at the Police Staff College, Bramshill where future Chief Constables behaved like pupils at St. Trinians.
He commanded a unit of police officers throughout the Miners’ Strike and was almost arrested for stealing an Aston Martin.
This book covers his early years and the first ten years of a police career.
Review
I received a free copy of this book in exchange for a fair and honest review.
I don't read a great deal of autobiographies, mainly because they are ghost written for celebrities who have no time or interest in writing them themselves.
This one is clearly penned by the subject and is a fun to read journey through his upbringing and early police career.
Written as a series of interesting anecdotes, interspersed with the occasional comment on the way the police service was and is run, this was an interesting insight into the mind of a serving police officer and the multitude of characters he comes into contact with whilst keeping Britain's streets free from crime
Most enjoyable and I'll be looking out for part two when it becomes available
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