I thought I’d look at things a little differently in today’s Writing Crime blog post. Instead of writing a factual and procedurally correct post, I’m going to write something from a personal point of view. I’m going to go back to my days in the job and delve into how it felt when I was […]
Writing Crime – Police Communication
Today I thought we’d have a look at something different. I’m full of a cold virus today so this post is easy to write up. I also thought it would be interesting to have a look at. Police communication systems. How do officers communicate with their control room? They do this with something called the […]
What’s Your First Draft Like? – Ian Patrick
Today I”m pleased to welcome crime writer and friend, Ian Patrick to the blog to talk about his first draft process. Educated in Nottingham, Ian left school at sixteen. After three years in the Civil Service he moved to London for a career in the Metropolitan Police. He spent twenty-seven years as a police officer, […]
What’s Your First Draft Like? – Peter Laws
I’m pleased to welcome Peter Laws to the blog to talk about his first draft process today. Peter Laws is an author, journalist, film critic and public speaker. He is the creator of the Matt Hunter novel series. The first of which, ‘Purged’, was released in February 2017. He’s an ordained Reverend in the UK Baptist denomination […]
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 […]
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