In this weeks policing post we are going to look at the powers of entry. The power to enter a person’s property. As a police officer, what powers does your police officer – if you’re writing one, – have to enter property? Can they just go in because they feel like it? I think most […]
Recently Read – Death Comes Knocking by Graham Bartlett
Death Comes Knocking by Graham Bartlett Genre; Non-fiction Fans of Peter James and his bestselling Roy Grace series of crime novels know that his books draw on in-depth research into the lives of Brighton and Hove police and are set in a world every bit as gritty as the real thing. His friend Graham Bartlett […]
Back To Basics – The Police Rank Structure
As I was sat around last night, trying to figure out what Policing topic I was going to cover, I realised that we were leaping ahead in some of our posts. I had wanted to try and work my way from the beginning of a crime scene to the end of a case, but with […]
Writing Crime – Identifying The Victim
Back in February, after the crime scene, (discussed HERE, HERE and HERE) where we had found our murdered victim, we had a post-mortem, (discussed HERE) but we hadn’t yet identified our victim. So, we’re going to look at identifying the victim, where this isn’t a straight-forward thing to do. You may go into a situation where […]
Writing Crime – Sending Your Offender To Prison
I was asked, by Pam Croft, two weeks ago in the comments section of the Caution blog post about offenders being sent to prison and where they would go. This post relates to the UK. If someone is arrested and kept in prison, where do they go? Are there special prisons for them or […]
Writing Crime – Voluntary Interviews
As I mentioned in last week’s post, about the police caution, we are going to discuss voluntary interviews this week. This was the question that started us down this path, originally. When someone is brought in for questioning with no evidence (as in you are still gathering and you ask them to help with […]