Beat This East End Policeman's Books Lift the Lid On the Deals and Dust-Ups That Kept the City Streets Safe Good Cop, Bad Cop? I Knew Them All

Evening Times › September 05, 2007

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A FORMER police colleague of Willie Greenshields would like to get in touch to discuss old times . However, this will be no fond reunion, over a pint: Willie would not be surprised if the detective set about him with his policeissue truncheon.

The man is said to be rattled by a passage in Willie's first book of Strathclyde Police reminiscences, Greenshields: A Glasgow Cop.

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Beat This East End Policeman's Books Lift the Lid On the Deals and Dust-Ups That Kept the City Streets Safe Good Cop, Bad Cop? I Knew Them All

Willie liked and admired many of the officers he came across, but he does not pull his punches when it comes to describing those who he saw as lazy, drunk or incompetent.

Taggart, it isn't.

"I have had a good reaction to the book generally, apart from this one detective in particular, " says Willie.

"He is livid, but I don't know why bec...

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