Not For the Faint Hearted

In this absorbing and controversial memoir, John Stevens records highlights of his meteoric career, from walking the beat as a constable on London's Tottenham Court Road during the 1960s to the summit of his profession as Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police. As a junior detective he achieved so many arrests he became known as 'Swifty Stevens'. As Deputy Chief Constable of Cambridgeshire he began the first of his three inquiries into collusion between the security forces and paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland. One of his most striking successes was in the car-crime capital of Europe - Newcastle - where he achieved the most spectacular reduction in crime ever known in Britain. In 2000, when he was appointed Commissioner, London's police force was in a poor way, understrength and weakened by low morale. Five years later, and despite political wranglings, his leadership had restored the force to its best-ever state.

ISBN 0753820838   Pages 424 ISBN13 9780753820834 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Orion Publishing Co   Weight (grammes) 348 Imprint Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )   Published in London Format Paperback   Height (mm) 198 Publication date 01 Jun 2006   Width (mm) 129 DEWEY 363.209421092   Spine width (mm) 27 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level General

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