![]() He described in detail the hugely complicated paperwork process which meant, for example, that the theft of a bicycle by three boys took around 20 hours (over the course of a month or so) to clear up. His writing revealed the amount of time the UK police now take to deal with relatively petty crimes. But honest taxpayers, sick of being fleeced while criminals rule our streets, will relish every word. Copperfield's chief constable won't like it, and neither will the government. It's the first book to spill the beans about the way senior police officers waste our money while fiddling the crime figures and scrambling to meet bogus Home Office targets. Wasting Police Time is his hilarious and shocking diary of life as a modern British bobby. they're all inside the station, writing reports, photocopying, stapling and filing – when they're not getting caught up in the petty squabbles of the underclass. The blurb on the back of the book's dust jacket asks:Įver wondered why you can't find a policeman when you need one? PC David Copperfield has the answer. It chronicles Copperfield's despair at the way policing in his town – dubbed 'Newtown' (revealed to be Burton upon Trent) – stopped functioning properly to a significant extent. In October 2006, Wasting Police Time was published. For its title, he chose the term wasting police time, a misdemeanor criminal offence under British law. In early 2006 Copperfield signed a book deal with British publisher Monday Books to turn his blog into a book. However, the three-page article also attracted the attention of a number of publishers and agents, eventually leading to his first book. The usage of the material attracted protest from fellow bloggers, and Copperfield jokingly described the journalists as 'bastards'. In 2005, a number of his blog posts were used without permission by the London-based Mail on Sunday newspaper. ![]() Copperfield began blogging in 2004 having initially started to write about his passion for gardening, he found that mentions of his working life in the police attracted far more interest and so switched to commenting on law and order issues. ![]()
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