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Bush Pig - District Cop - Service with the British South Africa Police in the Rhodesian Conflict 1965-79 (Paperback, New)
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Bush Pig - District Cop - Service with the British South Africa Police in the Rhodesian Conflict 1965-79 (Paperback, New)
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This is the story of one man's service in the British South Africa
Police of Rhodesia during his service of nearly fifteen years,
between the years 1965 and 1979, and in many ways forms a sequel to
the author's book Mad Dog Killers. The struggle to keep Rhodesia
out of black nationalist hands started in late 1964 and ended with
the Mugabe regime in 1982. It is also a story of a policeman
engaged in that war as a member of the paramilitary BSAP Support
unit, the Police Anti-Terrorist Unit and as an ordinary member of
the force that had always been designated the country's first line
of defence. Most of the service was on remote rural district
stations, often in the middle of the"front line". The account tells
of one man's learning to be a policeman and a police public
prosecutor and about the eccentricities of some of the circuit
magistrates. A policeman has a lot to learn about life, and in the
BSA Police he was expected to jump in at the deep end from the
start. It is also the story of the strange struggle by
Rhodesian-born policemen in a force where the majority were
English-born, at a time when Rhodesia was in rebellion against
Britain. The author's senior officers, though fiercely loyal to the
force, were British and required to join the rebellion. It tells of
his resentment at the lack of drive by senior officers in the fight
against terrorist atrocities. There is additional insight into the
Utopian life in Rhodesia, especially in rural areas, when it was
still possible to hunt buck for the police mess rations, where
there was no electricity or other modern amenities and where the
single quarters were in ancient buildings enclosed by a wraparound
gauzed-in veranda - a life gone now forever. It is also a story of
a young man who grew up in Salisbury, his sexual excesses and
sadness. The British Queen Mother was patron of the force all her
life and was very proud of her association with it.
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