The Outsider by Keith Hellawell

The Outsider by Keith Hellawell

An abused, unwanted, squint-eyed boy, Keith Hellawell never knew who his real father was. His mother, a club dancer, was always bringing home different men, and would tie him to the table-leg to keep him quiet. He fought at school and went down the pit. It was a hard-bitten, inauspicious start for a man who was eventually to become Chief Constable of Cleveland, and then West Yorkshire, and later, controversially, New Labour's much-feted and summarily dismissed "Drugs Czar". In his autobiography Hellawell writes candidly about four decades of public service. He lifts the veil on police brutality, corruption and abuse of power. He chronicles the rise in terrorism, public disorder, drug abuse and criminality. He discusses the childishness and insecurity of politicians and civil servants. He deals with the issues of racism, sexism and political correctness, and provides a rare insight into the workings of the judiciary, royalty and the establishment. And he chronicles the often lonely challenges of dealing with the likes of Peter Sutcliffe in a police career that took him everywhere from Northern Ireland to Hollywood. "The Outsider" is the autobiography of a man of absolute integrity fired by the determination to better not only his own lot, but that of other humans as well, and to change things from the inside.

What makes someone become a policeman? What is a 'Drugs Czar'? Before he was New Labour's much-ridiculed Drugs Czar, Keith Hellawell was a highly successful career copper, rising from humble, inauspicious beginnings to become Chief Constable of West YorkshireIn this his autobiography Hellawell describes four decades of crime fighting in Britain, as well as the changing face of crime (and the changing face of the police force that tackled it). It's all here, from public disorder to terrorism. There is bound to be media interest as the author is well known through the vicissitudes of New Labour's drugs policy, but there is rather more to his story than the headlines suggest. Newspaper serialisation is promised.

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ISBN 13	9780007145294
ISBN 10	0007145292
Title	The Outsider
Author	Keith Hellawell
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers
Year published	2002-11-04
Number of pages	400
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