The extraordinary story of an ordinary policeman, from a disillusioned student in the 1970s to retirement at the turn of the century.Funny, sad, heartbreaking.Shocking, interesting, revealing.Being a 'rookie' cop in a busy town.The camaraderie, practical jokes and mickey taking.Discovering that some of the public can be incredibly stupid.Bosses, good ones, bad ones and incompetent ones.Buried in paperwork.Seeing death at close quarters.The front line of the Miners' Strike of 1984.Trying to scale the promotion ladder, giving up then getting it anyway.Good times. Bad times. Sad times.It's all here, the story of twenty-five years.
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