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On the Beat: True Tales of a Former Manchester Police Officer
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April 13, 2009
I learned that I would like to meet Dennis, I was also a beat Bobby, Dog Handler in Manchester at the same time, we must have met before, and his tales are absolutely as it was in Life on Mars and in his books, well done Dennis lovely style, facinating stories delivered to perfection,the true tales are so near to my own that it seems almost unbelievable to read them they are my own experience to a T.
Alright I will give a you little bit more, I followed up my review in professional style, actually found Dennis, and with my youngest son spent a great afternoon chatting and comparing experiences, what a great guy he is,but having previously said that we had a great deal in common I actually discovered that we had worked on opposite ends of the same juicy little job about 1960.
Small world indeed, the Kray twins came to Manchester with the intention of taking over the night club scene and our City
Police together with Scotland Yard detectives kept them so well controlled that they gave up the idea and went back to London in a bit of a hurry, Dennis was one of the Manchester Sergeants who had done the necessary controlling, and I was the uniform Beat Bobby who leaned on them a bit at the old London Road Station and closely escorted them to their seats in the first express train they could board back to London.
Anyone who wants to chat with Dennis, it is easy he is the uniformed Sergeant, looking as smart as ever in the Manchester Police Museum in Newton St just off Piccadilly, to be found there almost every Tuesday.
Cheers H.
Alright I will give a you little bit more, I followed up my review in professional style, actually found Dennis, and with my youngest son spent a great afternoon chatting and comparing experiences, what a great guy he is,but having previously said that we had a great deal in common I actually discovered that we had worked on opposite ends of the same juicy little job about 1960.
Small world indeed, the Kray twins came to Manchester with the intention of taking over the night club scene and our City
Police together with Scotland Yard detectives kept them so well controlled that they gave up the idea and went back to London in a bit of a hurry, Dennis was one of the Manchester Sergeants who had done the necessary controlling, and I was the uniform Beat Bobby who leaned on them a bit at the old London Road Station and closely escorted them to their seats in the first express train they could board back to London.
Anyone who wants to chat with Dennis, it is easy he is the uniformed Sergeant, looking as smart as ever in the Manchester Police Museum in Newton St just off Piccadilly, to be found there almost every Tuesday.
Cheers H.
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