© Chris Clark 2014
Chris Clark was a war baby his father was a WW2 and Cold War RAF Officer and Chris was educated at various schools throughout England and Singapore.
After leaving school he sought employment as a gardener and pig and poultry farmer eventually working for two years for HM The Queen in her kitchen gardens at Sandringham.
He was a Norfolk Constabulary Constable from March 1966 until his retirement during August 1994. He had various diverse roles within the Uniform Branch, including Foot/Cycle Beat, Town Response Car, Crown Court Officer, Village Beat and Section Motor Patrol, Control and Command, Major Incident Room, Royalty Protection and Intelligence.
His main interest in all of his service remained in Intelligence gathering and dissemination, having started the Local Intelligence Officer/Collator System during 1968 and helped steer the force away from parochial thinking towards the travelling criminal who knew no invisible police boundaries.
Being West Norfolk’s Intelligence Officer from 1987 until 1991 and the eventual advent of computerised records Chris liaised closely with his counterparts in Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire and Suffolk as well as No 5 and No 3 Regional Crime Intelligence Officers and Crime Squads as well as SO11 Intelligence Office at New Scotland Yard. During 1993 he applied on 3 separate occasions to a vacancy within the newly formed National Crime Intelligence service in London, but despite recommendations from his force being 47 years of age he was paper sifted.
Chris started writing seriously at the age of 65 during 2010 and his first two books are RAF orientated, the first “From Hitler’s U-
His next two offerings in the pipeline are the nearly completed “The Grim Ripper” summarised in The Grim Ripper and
“The Laughing Policeman” in
About the Armchair Detective