When Science Goes Wrong (46 page)

WASTING POLICE TIME:

The Crazy World Of The War On Crime

by PC David Copperfield

‘PC DAVID COPPERFIELD is an ordinary bobby quietly waging war on crime...when he’s not drowning in a sea of paperwork, government initiatives and bogus targets.

Wasting Police Time
is his hilarious but shocking picture of life in a modern British town, where teenage yobs terrorise the elderly, drunken couples brawl in front of their children and drug-addicted burglars and muggers roam free.

PC Copperfield reveals how crime is spiralling while millions of pounds in tax is frittered away, and reveals a force which, crushed under mad bureaucracy, is left desperately fiddling the figures.

He brings the same incisive, acid humour to bear in
Wasting Police Time
.

‘Being a policeman in modern England is not like appearing in an episode of
The Sweeney
,
Inspector Morse
or even
The Bill
, sadly,’ says Copperfield. ‘No, it’s like standing banging your head against a wall, carrying a couple of hundredweight of paperwork on your shoulders, while the house around you burns to the ground.’

The Home Secretary won't like it, and nor will Copperfield's Chief Constable, but half a million serving and retired police officers and millions of ordinary Britons will be left nodding in agreement.’

'Passionate, important, interesting and genuinely revealing... riveting'

The Sunday Times

‘A best-selling, cynical and witty account of life on the beat’

The Guardian

‘David Copperfield is the ordinary copper (with two commendations for outstanding performance) who risked his job to expose the reality of modern day policing’.

Jeremy Vine, Panorama

 ‘One of the three political books of the moment'

Nick Cohen, The Observer

'A huge hit... will make you laugh out loud'

The Daily Mail'

Very revealing'

The Daily Telegraph'

‘Hilarious... should be compulsory reading for our political masters'

The Mail on Sunday

 ‘A sensation,’

The Sun

‘I happened, while waiting to interview a man in prison, to be reading Copperfield’s book, and two plainclothes policemen in the waiting room saw it. They had read the work, and I asked them whether what Copperfield wrote was true. “Every word,” they replied’

Theodore Dalrymple – City Journal

'Graphic, entertaining and sobering'

The Observer'

Runner up in
Conservative Home
’s Book of the Year Award.

A full- length BBC
Panorama
expose of policing was broadcast based on
Wasting Police Time.

Pc Copperfield has also been interviewed on
Radio 4, Radio Five Live, Newsnight, Sky News, GMTV

PERVERTING THE COURSE OF JUSTICE:

The Hilarious and Shocking Inside Story of British Policing

by Inspector Gadget

WELCOME to Inspector Gadget's world - a world where you can be arrested for pinching a few crisps from your 10-year-old friend, throwing chips or denying the existence of Santa Claus - while burglars, muggers and drug dealers stroll away from court grinning.

It's a country where the cops are banned from making tea in the nick (too dangerous) but face drunken, aggressive thugs on the streets.

Inspector Gadget is a real-life senior policeman. Fed up with fiddled figures, mountains of paperwork and lunatic PC nonsense, he wants you to know how bad things really are.

Controversial, gripping, authoritative and, occasionally, very funny - this book takes readers where the powers-that-be don't want them to go.

Inspector Gadget writes a blog at
[email protected]
which has had more than 5.5million hits.

The Times
named Inspector Gadget as one of the '40 Bloggers who really count' stating that his writing is 'provocative stuff, and as an insight into life on the policing front line in 2010, it’s invaluable.'

Inspector Gadget has written articles for The Daily Telegraph and has been featured in The Guardian, The Sun, The Daily Mail, The Daily Express and The Mirror.

OUR MAN IN ORLANDO:

 Murder, Madness and Mayhem in the Sunshine State.

by Hugh Hunter

FLORIDA
: a land of dazzling white sands, sizzling sun... and utterly incompetent British criminals.

Like the woman who hijacked a helicopter to bust her husband out of Death Row, the gap year student who robbed a bank and tried to escape on a kid's bike and the unlucky Londoner who kidnapped the wrong guy and wound up serving 1,285 years in jail.

As British consul in our nation’s favourite holiday hotspot, Hugh Hunter has seen them all – murderers, small-time conmen and big-time drug dealers (plus ordinary families whose dream vacations turned to nightmares).

Our Man in Orlando is his astonishing true story of a decade spent dealing with clueless, witless and hopeless Brits abroad.

Hugh Hunter was a guest on the Victoria Derbyshire show on
Five Live
and Excess Baggage on
Radio 4
.

Our Man in Orlando
was serialised in
The Times
and
The Week
magazine and the book is about to be turned into a major new television drama.

IT’S YOUR TIME YOU’RE WASTING

A Teacher’s Tales Of Classroom Hell

By Frank Chalk

FRANK CHALK is an ordinary teacher in an ordinary British school... a school where the kids get drunk, beat up the teachers and take drugs - when they can be bothered to turn up.

It’s Your Time You’re Wasting
is the blackly humorous diary of a year in his working life.

Chalk confiscates porn, booze and errant trainers, fends off angry parents and worries about the conscientious pupils whose lives and futures are being systematically wrecked, recording his experiences in a funny and readable book.

He offers top tips for dealing with unruly kids, muses on the shortcomings of the staff (including his own) and even spots the occasional spark of hope amid all the despair.

Prepare to be horrified and amused by the unvarnished truth about the bottom end of our state education system. A must-read for parents, teachers and anyone who cares about our country's future.

‘His [Frank Chalk’s] witty warts-and-all descriptions have won him hundreds of teacher fans,’

TES (Times Educational Supplement)

 ‘A searing first-hand account of what teachers have to contend with everyday,’

Emma Lee-Potter, SecEd.

‘Frank Chalk explains why, in a country that expends $5,200 a year for 11 years on each child’s education, a fifth of children leave school virtually unable to read or write, let alone do simple arithmetic’

Theodore Dalrymple, City Journal.

‘One of the three political books of the moment'

Nick Cohen, The Observer