In addition to his experiences in Keighley and Haworth, his book includes accounts of being on duty during the traumatic minders’ strike, policing one of Bradford’s toughest housing estates and taking part in a farcical raid on a brothel.

Ilkley Gazette

You will be enthralled by his stories which cover every human emotion, from a cancer victim having a breakdown to a young bingo caller falling to this death fleeing a raid from the drugs squad. On the way we meet characters and scenes and events that would be hard to find in the most creative pages of crime fiction: a ‘Carry on” style brother raid, a crazy chase where the thief was stopped when the patrol car parked on his foot, a colleague who was convinced he had been abducted by aliens and many more enthralling stories.

Police World

Tha’s Locked Up – a phrase he heard a trainee colleague utter the first time they made a street arrest – is the third book in publisher Wharncliffe’s Bobby on the Beat series. There are photographs, including one taken during a confrontation between striking mines and policemen in 1984/85

Telegraph and Argus (Bradford)

In addition to his experiences in Keighley and Haworth his book includes accounts of being on duty during the traumatic miners' strike, policing one of Bradford's toughest housing estates and taking part in a farcical raid on a brothel

Keighley News