When I was a young lad I would watch TV Programs such as The Bill where I would see Pc Tony Stamp (Twitters – @grahamcoleact) booting round Sun Hill in a marked up Ford Sierra chasing baddies. I knew at this young age that was the job I wanted to do. Like many people this is what (at the time) I thought policing was all about. The idea of fast driving, excitement, the action, and dare I say it the old fashioned way in which the Relief (shift) would all de-kit and head down the pub as a team appealed to me.
As I grew older I learned a lot about the job from an Uncle who at the time was a serving Inspector within Warwickshire Police (then Warwickshire Constabulary). I started to realise that the job was about improving the life of others and the chasing people around etc was heavily outweighed by the day to day police work. Armed with this new information I was still as determined as before to be a police officer.
Jumping ahead a good few years I had decided that I wanted to join the Army, but that itch to go into police...
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