Last week we had a post on Training to be a police officer, the week before that, Training to be a Detective and it got me to thinking about how long it would take your officer to become the DI, DCI they were (you may well be writing from the point of view of a lower rank […]
Writing Crime – Training To Be A Police Officer
Last Week I wrote a post on how you trained to be a police detective. But, how do you get to that step? You have to start somewhere (Unless you’re going straight into the Met’s detective scheme which we covered last week!) and that somewhere is as a uniform police constable. So, let’s have a […]
Writing Crime – Training To Be A Detective
During this series, there has been a lot of information on the practicalities of the job, but what there has not been is information on how the officer dealing with the offences, the crimes, got to be where he or she is. So, if your officer is dealing with a murder, then she is a […]
Writing Crime – Underwater Search Units
I’ve done a couple of posts on searching, Here and Here and Here. But one of the subjects I don’t know much about is the underwater search units. I haven’t been involved in any jobs that have required them. But, they are a staple of crime fiction so I thought I would see what I could […]
Writing Crime – Fingerprints, Photographs and DNA Samples
My intention when I started this series was to write in a chronological order, the series of events that would occur from the scene of a crime onwards. But with a tired frazzled brain, that has, unfortunately, not occurred. As is proven, again today as I go backwards a little to the taking of fingerprints, […]
Writing Crime – Arrest Or Charge?
Confusion seems to rein in some crime books on whether the offender is under arrest or if they’ve been charged. I think this is because crime novelists are voracious readers and watchers of crime fiction and read and watch both UK and US versions as well as other great books and shows. This, I believe […]
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