© Chris Clark 2014

Yorkshire Ripper Book

My book about the Yorkshire Ripper is due to be published in 2015. Here is a note from the executive editor at John Blake Publishing:

 

“I finally got a chance to read most of Yorkshire Ripper: The Secret Murders, and found it engrossing, if extremely uncomfortable in places. It is a remarkable piece of work, and, subject to confirmation, we have scheduled it for publication in July next year, in a hardback edition. I know that you were slightly worried about the TS being over-length as against the word-count specified in the contract, but to be honest I think this may even be an advantage; certainly at no point did I feel that the text dragged, or that it had diverted into areas not wholly relevant to the book’s purpose.”

With best wishes

Toby

Toby Buchan Executive Editor

John Blake Publishing.

The laughing Policeman

In this book I have outlined some of the funnier aspects of my life from growing up in a rural setting in post-war Britain during rationing, to living in the Far East in comparable Colonial luxury and my various horticulture and farming occupations before joining Norfolk Constabulary at the age of twenty in the “Heartbeat” era of the 1960s.

The book focuses on the first fourteen years of my twenty eight police service which covers my many diverse roles within the Uniform Branch, including Foot/Cycle Beat, Front Office and Control Room, Panda Car, Collator/Intelligence Office, Crown Court Liaison Officer, Rural Beat and Section Motor Patrol. It also outlines the changes in communications and equipment as well as the demise of the Village Bobby towards Section and Divisional style policing.

Throughout a career of proactive and sometimes solemn policing I have embroidered some of the more light hearted and black humour funnier moments which broke the monotony and stopped one becoming depressive during this fast changing era which was sometimes not for the better of the public or us who served them.

Coming Soon