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Above The Law by Adrian Bleese
Jun. 13th, 2021 09:55 pmThe Blurb On The Back:
Adrian Bleese spent twelve years flying on police helicopters, and attended almost 3,000 incidents, as one of only a handful of civilian air observers working anywhere in the world.
In Above The Law he recounts the most intriguing, challenging, amusing and downright baffling episodes in his career working for Suffolk Constabulary and the National Police Air Service. Rescuing lost walkers, chasing cars down narrow country lanes, searching for a rural cannabis factory and disrupting an illegal forest rave … they’re all in a day’s work.
It’s a side of policing that most of us never see, and he describes it with real compassion as he lives his dream job, indulging his love of flying, the English landscape and helping people. Perhaps more than anything, it’s a story about hope.
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Adrian Bleese is a former RAF electronics operator turned police civilian control room operator and then police helicopter service civilian observer. This jovial memoir offers a good operational overview of what police helicopters do and how they operate and, depressingly, how they have been squandered due to poor management and cuts. However it does sometimes get bogged down in digression and if you want salacious cases, then it’s not for you.
ABOVE THE LAW will be released in the United Kingdom on 19th July 2021. Thanks to Eye Books for the review copy of this book.
Adrian Bleese spent twelve years flying on police helicopters, and attended almost 3,000 incidents, as one of only a handful of civilian air observers working anywhere in the world.
In Above The Law he recounts the most intriguing, challenging, amusing and downright baffling episodes in his career working for Suffolk Constabulary and the National Police Air Service. Rescuing lost walkers, chasing cars down narrow country lanes, searching for a rural cannabis factory and disrupting an illegal forest rave … they’re all in a day’s work.
It’s a side of policing that most of us never see, and he describes it with real compassion as he lives his dream job, indulging his love of flying, the English landscape and helping people. Perhaps more than anything, it’s a story about hope.
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Adrian Bleese is a former RAF electronics operator turned police civilian control room operator and then police helicopter service civilian observer. This jovial memoir offers a good operational overview of what police helicopters do and how they operate and, depressingly, how they have been squandered due to poor management and cuts. However it does sometimes get bogged down in digression and if you want salacious cases, then it’s not for you.
ABOVE THE LAW will be released in the United Kingdom on 19th July 2021. Thanks to Eye Books for the review copy of this book.
