In 1951, at the age of 21, Gwendoline Crockford was accepted as a Woman Police Constable into the Berkshire Constabulary. This memoir, written in robust, brisk and clear prose with shards of humour and irony, is rich in social history and reveals not just the life of a pioneering female police constable but a now barely-remembered world of post-war austerity and a society on the brink of enormous change.
There is camaraderie in this cast of wonderful characters and innocence and cosiness in this world, but there are also brutal mores, eye-popping societal attitudes and a close-to-Victorian judicial system - along with just a hint that things are getting better. Structured in an engaging and compelling narrative, Gwen's adventures as a WPC include dealing with a skeleton in the woods, juvenile delinquency, locating a missing child, chasing a horse that turns out to be a zebra, filing traffic reports and solving burglaries. In 1951 the police did not have radios, so a police officer on the beat would report to the police station by answering a ringing telephone in a public phone box at an appointed time. Alongside the nostalgia of the extraordinarily old-fashioned tools of police detection detailed, there is also grit and darkness with the thread of the child-neglect and poverty of the Carroll family running through the narrative to its dramatic and shocking conclusion.
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