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Wasting Police Time: The Crazy World of the War on Crime (Paperback)

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  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Monday Books (9 Oct 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0955285410
  • ISBN-13: 978-0955285417
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (107 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3,290 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A story of a policeman's life on the beat.

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If you like the sound of WASTING POLICE TIME, check out 'IT'S YOUR TIME YOU'RE WASTING, a teacher's tales of classroom hell' by FRANK CHALK (published September 06 by Monday Books).

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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A book that needs to be read!!, 14 Oct 2006
By Hanglemez Pallaccini (Quito, Ecuador) - See all my reviews
This is an important book about modern Britain. That's really not not overstating it. Not at all. It's just sheer brilliant.

It's a humourous and incisive critique of wht's gone wrong with policing today. But the scary fact is that it could probably be applied to any of our public services today. And it should be read by every senior police officer and politician.

The most frustrating thing after reading this book is that an ordinary frontline copper has come up with simple solutions to solving problems...but that in the end none of those in charge will take heed.

What ultimately shines through though is the passion and dedication David Copperfield has for his job despite all that front line beat officers have to face. We need somebody like him in charge...although I doubt he'd want to take up the offer.
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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars True! Spot On! 100% behind this book!, 21 Mar 2007
By Mr. M. J. Thompson (England) - See all my reviews
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This book is fantastic and more importantly so very very true.
I can see all the reports of "crimes" and incidents I have attended over my years.
Every paragraph I read I found myself smiling, nodding and saying "Yep, that's right!", "Done it!", "Been there!"
This should be compulsive reading for all politicans and may be then they would realise what actually happens in the big wide world.
All to much nowadays the Police is run by numbers. People don't seem to matter any more, just as long as the "scores on the doors" (As I like to call them) are good and improving each month.
A must for police officers and non-police alike.
Police will agree all the way and those non-police will hopefully have some sympathy for us as we (The Police) have for them.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Inner London coppers view, 9 Feb 2008
I've been working in central London for a few years having moved from an outer force, I've read 'wasting police time' a couple of times now, each time making me laugh like an idiot and sink into my chair feeling nearly as depressed of many people I deal with. Despite what that cretin Tony McNulty said - this book, and the blog for that matter, are as far from fiction as one could hope.

Or dread, depending on your point of view.

As response officers, the guys and girls on my team have to deal with anything and everything that comes over the radio or what happens in front of us, we have no remit and the results are exactly as DC has written. Domestics, drunks, suicides, cries for help, petty shoplifting and minor drug dealing are the bread and butter of what we deal with, no matter where in the country you work. And as for the issue of racism in the force... I personally have never seen it in any of my colleagues and yet we see it every day directly from members of the public - black, white, Chinese, Asian, Arab, eastern European. Everyone.

This book is about as close to the despair that every one of us feel every time we go to work and I urge you to read it, along with 'Diaries of an On-Call girl' which is also excellent.
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