You're Nicked My Son
A True Account of 30 Years Policing
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At The offender was a lone male who would enter the premises shortly after they opened up for the day, produce a firearm or intimate that he had one and force the staff to hand over cash. He would sometimes spend a little time in the shop posing as a customer. After a year of committing offences and despite rigorous attempts to identify him, police were struggling to find the male responsible. The police did have a couple of CCTV pictures of the suspect but efforts to identify him struggled on. Then they got a breakthrough. Two prison officers contacted the Flying Squad after seeing the latest CCTV pictures and said that the male could be a Malcolm Leferve. Leferve had been sentenced to 18 years imprisonment following an armed robbery in 1989 when he fired a shot from a sawn off shotgun and killed a female cashier. He was on the run for a week and was eventually arrested in The prison informed the squad that Leferve had changed his name whilst in prison and that he was now called Malcolm Parker. Copies of his prison photograph were quickly obtained and he certainly looked good for the suspect. This started a mad week of trying to locate the current whereabouts of Parker. DS Cairns set his team tasks to carry out, in order to try and locate the current whereabouts of the suspect, all the usual intelligence enquiries were made and it led the team to the New Addington area of Croydon in The next couple of days saw the team running around the Croydon area in an attempt to track him down. On DS Cairns joined them and they searched the estate for the red BMW without success. However he had managed to get the registration number. They were finally getting close to their man and so they headed back to Barnes. The next morning DS Cairns struck gold. He checked on the registration number of the car and it came back to a female living on the housing estate they had seen the car drive onto. Even better a further check on the vehicle insurance details showed a named driver as being Malcolm PARKER. Bingo they had him! Now all they had to do was confirm he was the right man.
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About the Book
This book takes you through 30 years service of a frontline police officer in the UK. Relating true stories from the old style policing days of the mid 70s, when the best piece of equipment issued to an officer was his uniform high collard wollen cape right up to the modern day policing of 2007 where everything is now computerised and technology led.
The stories show the tragic and sad, serious and funny and quite often the exciting if not sometimes dangerous life of an officer. The author spent 20 years in uniform and 10 years in the CID. The latter mostly involved tackling Londons serious and organised crime whilst serving on Scotland Yards World Famous 'Flying Squad' who were made infamous by the television series 'The Sweeney'. Many stories made headlines including The Millennium Dome Robbery and the return of the Great Train Robber, Ronnie Biggs. This book gives a personal account of the incidents as they happened.
About the Author
Andy Vick was born in Newport, Gwent in July 1958. He left school at the age of 16 and despite harboring a desire to join the police force he initially obtained an apprenticeship as a mechanic and then had several other occupations before finally at 18 years of age he achieved his ambition.
In February 1977 he joined the Gwent Police where he served in uniform for 5 years before making the decision in April 1982 to transfer to London and to The Metropolitan Police. For the next fifteen years he served on at several divisional stations, carried out armed protection duties on the Diplomatic Protection Squad before becoming a police dog handler in November 1989.
Then with his dog, Tegan they patrolled all of Central and West London. From 1993 Tegan become a firearms support dog and as a team they travelled the whole of London on operations with the Met's specialst firearms teams carrying out operations against armed criminals and terrorists.
On leaving the dog section in 1996 he returned to uniform divisional work until joining the CID in 1998 This then led him to reach a life long ambition when he joined the world famous Flying Squad in May 2000 as a squad driver. He remained with the Flying Squad until January 2005 when he joined The Met Police Homicide Command. He remained here until retiring from the force in June 2007.
He is now retired and living in Cyprus.