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Into the Valley (Paperback)
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Into the Valley (Paperback)
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Encouraged by the sizeable pay increase and high divorce rate,
Chris decided that answering a recruitment ad for the Thames Valley
Police was just the thing for a much-needed overhaul of her life.
It was 1984, a time before political correctness, at the height of
the miners' strike, in the middle of five years of race riots.
Perfect timing. Expanding her police knowledge, and her love life,
undeterred by sexist remarks and chauvinists, she decided to make
her mark - kissing goodbye to her previous dull and conventional
existence. Chris captures the colourful characters and humour of
the situations she found herself in, but the job had its serious
side, too. She was at the centre of a riot in Oxford, during which
her life was saved by a young black man she had previously stopped
and questioned. Consistently coming up against the effects of
Margaret Thatcher's politics - controlling miners' picket-lines,
covering (poorly) for striking paramedics during the ambulance
dispute, responding to drunken disturbances caused by the haves
(Yuppies and Oxford students) and the have-nots (alcoholic homeless
and unemployed youth) - Chris also tackled sex crimes and abuse. A
humorous, candid and no-holds-barred reflection of the life of a
policewoman in the 80s, this book offers a personal account of a
life in uniform, while touching on the Newbury Bypass demos, the
effects of Scarman, the Hungerford Massacre, the bombing of Libya,
the AIDS epidemic, and working under the notorious Ali Dizaei.
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