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An accurate Job description	Customer Rating:
At last a book that shows what its like to be a PC in modern Britain. If you want to join the police then read this book. I can honestly say that it mirrors 99% of all coppers daily work. Should be compulsory read for all the MP's in the UK.

wasting taxpayers money

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This confirms my experience and expectations of the police i.e. ineffective, resentful of doing any real work and generally intent on screwing the system for as much overtime as possible. God only knows what they were getting away with before PACE started to make them a bit more accountable. Everybody else has had to get used to filling in forms, being a bit more politically correct and so on, but the police seem to just expect to carry on as a law unto themselves. Just look at the blunders - Colin Stagg, the Jill Dando business, Stephen Lawrence, running people over in their cars, speeding around on motorways and their drinking culture. Problem is, no proper managers from outside to drag them into the 21st century - it's a closed world and the staff just drift upwards over time i suppose. The Copperfield bloke makes his case, basically 'come down hard' then it just goes on and on. I agree - get the crap people off the street, punish them, but it won't happen, forget about catching criminals, the job is to contain the underclass on behalf of us middle clases. get on with it and stop moaning.

Wasting the worlds paper	Customer Rating:
Although this is an interesting book, with very salient points and views contained within, and it does provide an insight people need to know about, it is essentially the "best of" collection of an online blog by the same author. Therefore there is nothing new to read.

More a set of blogs than a book

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I hadn't seen the blogs when I bought this, and if I had then maybe I would have simply read them instead. It's revealing and disturbing about the state of Britain today, of course, but that doesn't make it a particularly interesting read. It could be half the length; there's not much in the second half of the book you haven't already read in the first. You soon get the message: the police have too much paperwork to do to have time to catch criminals and the courts are soft on those they do catch. As for being funny, it's a bit like listening to someone tell you the same joke ad nauseum when it was only mildly amusing the first time. The fact that The Daily Mail finds it hilarious speaks volumes. I have a suspicion Mr Copperfield would have us live in the Wild West, each with his gun and the fastest prevail. His fondness for US style policing (no crime there, is there?) is almost as disturbing as the state of our own nation. In all, a bit of a depressing read.

Brilliant read - and one thing that all the negative reviewers missed out on...

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Firstly, what a great book! It delivers everything it promises. It is Humorous, witty, sarcastic, shocking, depressing, scary, and above all, very humane. It does shed light on what does go on in the life of an ordinary bobby, and I've no reason to doubt that the vast majority of it is as honest and truthful as the author intended. Now, I noticed that a lot of the negative reviews have focussed on PC Copperfield's political leanings (Right Wing, middle class, lock-away-the-key mentality), and to be honest, I don't ascribe to this mentality at all...but then again, I do not have the privilege of sharing PC Copperfield's experiences in his job. Besides, the personal opinions of PC Copperfield are not, and should not be the focus of the true intention of the book. The purpose of the book is to show that the state of the Police Force in the UK is rapidly becoming a minefield of beauracracy, where forms need to be filled in & filed, where conducting 'risk assessements' become more important than saving lives, and where the statistics on "Crime" are adjusted and massaged to show a more beneficial result. - Whether PC Copperfield is conservative or liberal in his outlook is a moot point. The issues he raises are still the same, even if readers don't always see eye to eye on his policitcal opinions. In actual fact, the book benefits from his refreshing 'Speak my mind, and to hell with the usual Political Correctness brigade'. PC Copperfield isn't racist, homophobic or prejudiced in any way, but he's not someone who seems to be too worried about watching how he phrases things to appease the out-of-touch powers that implement this tripe. Finally, it does give a brutally honest view of Britain's underclass, and the state that it's in. I may not be a police officer, but I've seen, experienced, lived amongst and even came from a part of it, and it's getting worse. It's one thing to be working class, but this new 'Chav culture' seems to be predominantly a non-working class, and worse still they seem to be happy with their lot, of claiming dole and benefits, then leaving their kids with babysitters while they go out partying. - Again, in this book, PC Copperfield does not vent out against them, but he does tell some truly horrific stories, and reflects how depressed and how disappointed he is with these people. And frankly, whether you're a staunch Daily Mail reading Tory, or a Liberal, your reactions if you were placed in PC Copperfield's situation would probably match his.