Central 822 - Hardcover

Bristow, Carol

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0593042085 ISBN 13: 9780593042083

Publisher: Bantam Press, 1998

Synopsis

From WPC to Detective Inspector, this is the true story of Carol Bristow, the first woman detective sergeant in the Sweeney whose call sign was Central 822. During her 30 year career she arrested Francis Bacon on a drugs charge, worked undercover alongside prostitutes and mixed with drugs barons.

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From the Back Cover

A chance glance at a recruitment poster for the Metropolitan Police in 1964 changed secretary Carol Bristow's life. Little did she know, aged twenty-two, what the next thirty years would hold.

From her early days as a police rookie, Carol worked undercover in a drugs club, was strip-searched by her colleagues, and dealt with prostitutes, runaways and pickpockets. But being a simple WPC was not enough. Against all advice she signed up to join the virtually all-male enclave of the CID. Her call sign was 'Central 822'.

Carol rose through the ranks to become the first female detective sergeant on the Flying Squad and detective inspector on the Drugs Squad. But it was in the detection of serious sexual assaults that Carol truly made her mark, acquiring an unequalled reputation for dogged determination on cases such as the Ealing Vicarage rape and the murder of Australian heiress Janie Shepherd. She interviewed many shattered victims, set up the first sexual assault unit in the Met and became the unofficial police spokeswoman on sexual offences. Unsurprisingly, the nature of her work finally took a personal toll.

Central 822 is an insider's guide to policing at the sharp end. It is also the story of one remarkable woman's fight for justice.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bantam Press
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0593042085
• ISBN 13: 9780593042083
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352