The Future of Modern Policing by DCI Gene Hunt is the very funny companion to the cult TV series Ashes to Ashes, the follow up to Life on Mars. This is the most recent 1981 edition, which follows the 1973 edition: ‘The Rules of Modern Policing’.

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Description

Policing in the seventies was simple: when a crime was committed you tracked a nearby blagger, 'persuaded' him to confess and sent him off for a good long stretch. Simple. Sadly, policing in the eighties is a completely different kettle of fish. In fact, it's a whole different kettle of shoulder-pad-sporting, bouffant-haired, foundation-caked, coke-snorting, race-rioting career criminals.

DCI Gene Hunt is once again on hand to help his fellow officers, and so we have The Future of Modern Policing. Packed full advice for all ranks, this an invaluable policing manual in which the Gene Genie discusses all the new issues facing the Met – riots, forensics, political correctness (whatever the hell that is), IT, drugs and advanced interrogation techniques that you just might be able to persuade the judge are legal. There are also some practical exercises at the end of each chapter, including a helpful 'Spot the Drug Addict’ picture quiz, so, even if you really don't know your arse from your elbow, you can at least learn to blag it.

Gene Hunt may not be the most modern copper in the Met but he isn’t a fool either. If you want to be one of the top dogs, maybe you should buy his book, eh?

Author Biography

'DCI Gene Hunt is an overweight, over-the-hill, nicotine-stained, borderline-alcoholic homophobe with a superiority complex and an unhealthy obsession with male bonding.' Detective Inspector Sam Tyler

Here are some facts you will learn from this title:

· That 'good' evidence puts criminals in the doc and 'bad' evidence puts you there.
· Apparently you shouldn't obtain evidence by bribing people.
· Signed confessions actually have to be given voluntarily.
· Unless you know them, you shouldn't slap female colleagues' bottoms.
· Community policing is destined to fail because the public hate us.

Despite not being endorsed by the NPIA, this book should be considered as essential reading for those wishing to undertake their OSPRE or Investigator exams.