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The Enforcer: A Life Fighting Crime (Paperback)

by Graeme Pearson (Author), Kevin O'Hare (Author)
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  • Paperback: 242 pages
  • Publisher: Black and White Publishing; First Edition edition (16 Oct 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1845022157
  • ISBN-13: 978-1845022150
  • Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15.4 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 160,482 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Graeme Pearson is one of the UK's most outspoken and respected senior police officers. In a career spanning forty years he crossed swords with some of the UK's most fearsome and brutal gangsters as he rose from the ranks to lead the fight against serious organised crime as head of the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency.In "The Enforcer - a Life Fighting Crime", Graeme Pearson now tells the inside story of the fight against some of the most notorious criminals operating in Britain. He reveals why he bought antique silver from Glasgow Godfather Arthur Thompson, what Scotland's most notorious killer Robert Mone confided in him and charts the rise of organised crime in Scotland with the XYY mob, the Chinese Triad extortion group, the UVF and the highly organised drug gangs of the 21st century."The Enforcer" is also the very personal tale of his family's battle to survive in the hard-drinking culture of working class Glasgow in the 1950s and how this shaped one of our top cops. The lessons he learned in this tough environment have stayed with him from his early days on the beat right through to showing notorious criminals like Jamie 'The Iceman' Stevenson - Scotland's most wanted man - that crime really doesn't pay. This is the remarkable and compelling story of one man's determination to succeed and his life fighting crime.


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Graeme Pearson's distinguished 40-year police career spent fighting crime in Glasgow culminated in him being appointed the first Director General of the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency. An internationally-respected authority on crime, intelligence and drugs, Graeme was also seconded to the New York Police Department and the FBI at Quantico. Kevin O'Hare has spent more than 20 years working on national newspapers in Scotland. After 15 years at The Herald in Glasgow where he was chief-sub editor, Kevin joined the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency as Head of Strategic Communications.

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent insight, 20 Feb 2009
By Julia (Manchester, UK) - See all my reviews
This book is an excellent insight into the human side of police work, which is seldom seen. Having faced similar frustrations in the business world it is easy to empathise with the bureaucratic idiocy faced by our Police Forces. Does nobody in power wonder how many excellent people are choosing to walk away only to be replaced with box tickers responsible only to bean counters? I do agree with the previous reviewers who would like more depth - any chance of a follow-up?
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars missed opportunity, 17 Dec 2008
By Peter Piper (Scotland, UK) - See all my reviews
Inside the pages of this book a gripping story is fighting - in vain - to be told. Unfortunately, a decades-long career enmeshed in Scotland's super-secretive police culture takes its toll and the reader ends up with little in the way of revelation. Much of the big case stuff is a poor re-heat of newspaper cuttings. But the biggest disappointment is the failure to address the many scandals that touched the author's career. Written by a cop ... for cops ... in cop lingo.
The only saving grace is when the author allows his human side to show in the vividly-told chapters dealing with his childhood and early police career.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Tantalising, but only a taste, 27 Nov 2008
This is interesting, but only as far as it goes. As The Author(s) state, it is only a 'snap shot', and both from the point of view of Pearson's upbringing, and of his law enforcement career, it leaves one desparately wanting more - more detail, more facts, more argument. Because it only touches on Pearson's many interesting cases and postings, it makes him look rather one dimensional, even a bit of a Boy Scout - which I am sure, by dint of the jobs he has done, he is not. He doesn't get, or take, the chance, to expand on his views on fighting crime - organised crime, money laundering, or expand his views on the drug culture that seems to have got a grip of sectors of Scottish Society, or of his attempts to overcome the political and administrative battles faced by those who want to get on with the job, rather than 'spin' the problem. Perhaps he can put his hard earned retirement to use (or another use) by giving a more detailed and in depth account of the old cases, and his views on how an organisatio like the SCDEA should be allowed to develop. An unsatiated, teased appetite always causes disappointment
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