On Another Beat (Dennis Wood Police Sergant)

Dennis Wood served in the Manchester Police for a quarter of a century between 1950 and 1975, a period in which he saw a gradual change from what had been Victorian methods of keeping law and order by walking a local beat, to the situation we have today with police work being carried out by computers and officers in cars and all local contact with the public lost. He entered the police service, as did many of his contemporaries, following military service with the Scots Guards during and immediately following World War Two. Married to Sylvia, they have two sons, Nicholas and Richard. For many years Dennis wrote a column in Brief, the monthly journal of the Greater Manchester Police and is well known in the world of after dinner speaking. His hilarious, true tales are typical of a period thought by many law abiding citizens as being halcyon, and there is no doubt that if Dennis and his former colleagues were in today's police force they wouldn't last a week because of all the regulations and red-tape that now takes the place in every British force of what was once called common sense This is the sequel to Dennis' best-selling first book On The Beat, which was first published in 2005 to great acclaim from police officers all over the world.