The Cops Not Just a Job is not a book for the faint hearted or sensitive reader.However if you want a taste of the day to day life of a cop attempting to deal with people most of us would not like to encounter, this is the book for you.Dealing with everyday events, such as break & enters, suicides, drug overdoses, thefts, home invasions, gang rapes and murders.All are seen through the eyes of a first responder and an investigator.
The book is essentially in two parts reflecting the authors working life.The first deals with time as a general duties officer.Here the events occur rapidly leaving many questions to be asked who were these people, what were their backgrounds, what happened.However, it reveals that a general duties cop often does not know these answers.He/she just has to deal with the event, on the spot, the best they can.
The second part of the book describes the authors life as a detective.Here we begin to be able to understand the background to the crimes and what happened after the initial event.It is where we meetsome very undesirable people a group of teenagers who gang rape a woman.The experience, so horrific, that she hoped that she would quickly die during the ordeal; a man who kidnapped his partner who was attempting to leave him.He shot her and, as she was dying, raped her; an escapee, who was determined not to return to goal, attempts to knife the author.Fortunately, for the reader, humorous incidentsintersperse these crimes to give the reader some relief.
The Cops Not Just a Job gives an insight into a side of life most of us do not experience.It raises many issues ethical, practical and psychological which would be helpful for both serving and prospective police officers to discuss