Real Things
Barbara Wootton, 5 April 1984
McNee’s Law: The Memoirs of Sir David McNee
by David McNee.
Collins, 256 pp., £9.95, November 1983,0 00 217007 8 Show More
by David McNee.
Collins, 256 pp., £9.95, November 1983,
Police and People in London. Vol. I: A Survey of Londoners
by David Smith.
Policy Studies Institute, 386 pp., £7.40, November 1983,0 85374 223 5 Show More
by David Smith.
Policy Studies Institute, 386 pp., £7.40, November 1983,
Police and People in London. Vol. II: A Group of Young Black People
by Stephen Small.
Policy Studies Institute, 192 pp., £4.60, November 1983,0 85374 224 3 Show More
by Stephen Small.
Policy Studies Institute, 192 pp., £4.60, November 1983,
Police and People in London. Vol. III: A Survey of Police Officers
by David Smith.
Policy Studies Institute, 216 pp., £6.20, November 1983,0 85374 225 1 Show More
by David Smith.
Policy Studies Institute, 216 pp., £6.20, November 1983,
Police and People in London. Vol. IV: The Police in Action
by David Smith and Jeremy Gray.
Policy Studies Institute, 368 pp., £7.40, November 1983,9780853742265 Show More
by David Smith and Jeremy Gray.
Policy Studies Institute, 368 pp., £7.40, November 1983,
“... Fifty-eight years ago the man we now know as Sir David McNee was born in dire poverty in a Glasgow tenement. His father was a railwayman, and a staunch tradeunionist who rose ‘through a variety of jobs’ to be driver of many famous trains, including the ‘Royal Scot’. His mother was the daughter of a railwayman. In this book Sir David reports how he has often had occasion to refer with pride to these facts in later life, in face of suggestions that, as Metropolitan Commissioner of Police, he had no real insight into the problems of working-class life with which that office so often brought him into contact: ‘the lessons learned in Glasgow streets and tenements ... ”