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Apr 09, 2018 Jes Drew rated it really liked it · review of another edition

This was a very interesting memoir that gives an insider look at the world of policing. Since I'm currently obsessed with cops and agents shows, this book was a good look at the reality behind it. The author's testimony was also very touching. ...more

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Jan 26, 2018 Joan Cox rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I thoroughly enjoyed reading Planet Police by Natalie Vellacott. I enjoyed my stint as “shadow” police officer as I was very interestingly carried along with her on her job as police officer, and the many different episodes that she encountered.
The author wrote a book so well in connecting with her police experience that it also contained the elements that became her reason for changing her pursuit for a career in the police force to finally becoming a Christian missionary.
Natalie stated, “I ha I thoroughly enjoyed reading Planet Police by Natalie Vellacott. I enjoyed my stint as “shadow” police officer as I was very interestingly carried along with her on her job as police officer, and the many different episodes that she encountered.
The author wrote a book so well in connecting with her police experience that it also contained the elements that became her reason for changing her pursuit for a career in the police force to finally becoming a Christian missionary.
Natalie stated, “I had a good eye for things that “weren’t quite right.” Many times, it was when she continued to follow through beyond what seemed at the time where she should stop or take the normal routine. She instead followed her own gut instinct.
She followed her “gut instinct” where a man was impersonating his twin brother, but Natalie felt that something “wasn’t quite right” and had his fingerprints run that proved he wasn’t who he claimed to be. “He smirked at me and drawled, ‘Well, it was worth a shot, wasn’t it love?’ I stood dumfounded for a while as I thought how I had so nearly been duped into releasing him because he was so convincing and how he had snapped from one personality to another, as if someone had just clicked their fingers.”
Natalie saw a recurring problem with those who were arrested who kept breaking the law, and increasing the intensity of their criminal activities. She was especially touched when she saw the same group of young men that had started out with small misdemeanors that increased over the years until one of the young men was arrested for murder. She saw that there didn’t seem to be a proper system set up to help them resolve the reason why they committed the crime, to stop their lawless behavior.
The author saw the great harm done on society during her days on the police force and so desired to help make the change through legal restraint of the lawless.
When Natalie returned to the Lord, the change in her life began to show her a greater way of handling lawlessness. Whether dealing with individuals breaking the law of the land, or dealing with the wasted lives of people breaking God’s laws to sin. She gained her path to a greater understanding of why people needed more than physical constraint.
Natalie’s Christian calling to become a missionary had matured into a greater in-depth reason to leave all to become a missionary. She could finally address, in her words, “the root of the human problem which is always the same: sin. Therefore, the only true solution is also the same: Jesus.” Her final words in the book shows her Police experience was her spiritual refining on her path to becoming the Christian missionary her heart compelled her to become.
I really liked Planet Police by Natalie Vellacott Reviewer Joan Jessalyn Cox 5 Stars
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Jan 11, 2018 Joy rated it really liked it · review of another edition

An interesting look at the adventures of a young Christian woman in the British police force. The "behind the scenes" information and stories were fun - perhaps even more so since there is a difference in culture as well. Stories from silly to serious, personal and public, engage the reader. A fun read. ...more

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