No comment : what I wish I'd known about becoming a detective /
by McDonald, Jess.
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BookPublisher: London : Raven Books, 2023Description: 240 pages ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781526621702 (hbk.) :; 1526621703 (hbk.) :.Classification number: 363.2509 MCDSubject(s): McDonald, Jess | Great Britain. Metropolitan Police Service | Detectives -- England -- London | Crime | True Crime | United Kingdom, Great Britain | Memoirs | Social services & welfare, criminology | Police & security services | Police law & police proceduresSummary: The Direct Entry Scheme was a controversial new programme devised to tackle a recruitment crisis in the force. Jess McDonald was one of a hundred of the first rookies to go through an intense twenty-week training course, bypass time in uniform and fly solo as a detective investigating serious crime. In Jess's incisive, original and eye-opening memoir she takes us from bizarre training rituals to harrowing encounters with the perpetrators and victims of violent crime against women and girls, exploring what it really means to be responsible for 'keeping London safe for everyone'. We see the immense pressure she is put under as she struggles to adapt to her extraordinary new circumstances - and weighs up whether she, or any of the other Direct Entry detectives - can survive in the force as it is.
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| 363.2509 BLA All that remains : a life in death / | 363.2509 COM A higher loyalty : truth, lies, and leadership / | 363.2509 MCC Silent witnesses: a history of forensic science | 363.2509 MCD No comment : what I wish I'd known about becoming a detective / | 363.2509 SIL Written in blood | 363.252 SLA True lies | 363.2529 PER India uniform nine : secrets from inside a covert customs unit / |
The Direct Entry Scheme was a controversial new programme devised to tackle a recruitment crisis in the force. Jess McDonald was one of a hundred of the first rookies to go through an intense twenty-week training course, bypass time in uniform and fly solo as a detective investigating serious crime. In Jess's incisive, original and eye-opening memoir she takes us from bizarre training rituals to harrowing encounters with the perpetrators and victims of violent crime against women and girls, exploring what it really means to be responsible for 'keeping London safe for everyone'. We see the immense pressure she is put under as she struggles to adapt to her extraordinary new circumstances - and weighs up whether she, or any of the other Direct Entry detectives - can survive in the force as it is.
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