Crossing the Line: Lessons From a Life on Duty, Hardcover Book, By: John Sutherland

'a love letter to police officers and the most vulnerable people they protect and serve' Christie Watson, author of the language of kindness 'urgent and compelling. We all have lessons to learn from this book' Simon mayo As a society, we are captivated by policing we watch police procedurals and fly-on-the-wall documentaries and absorb the headlines on the rolling news. Yet how much do we really know about the world that policing inhabits and reveals? In his deeply revealing new book, john Sutherland invites us to step behind the cordon tape and bear witness to the things that he has seen in his twenty-five years of service with the metropolitan police. Tackling ten of the biggest challenges facing society today - from alcohol abuse, drug addiction and domestic violence to knife crime, terrorism and sexual offences - we are introduced to people who have been pushed to the limits and beyond. In doing so, we gain a clearer sense of what needs to be done to make our neighbourhoods safer and to transform the lives of those we live alongside. Eye-opening, courageous and moving, crossing the line is a book that will change the way you see the world around you. About John Sutherland John Sutherland is a father of three who lives with his wife and children in south London. For more than twenty-five years he served as an officer in the Metropolitan Police, rising to the rank of Chief Superintendent before his retirement on medical grounds in 2018. John is a sought after public speaker and commentator on a broad range of issues, who regularly appears on TV and radio and writes for major newspapers. His first book, BLUE, written and published while he was still serving in the Met, was a Sunday Times bestseller. It tells the remarkable stories of his policing life and describes his long road to recovery following the serious nervous breakdown that ended his operational policing career.