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Listening Skills for Effective Policing
Developing and honing effective listening skills for trainee, new and existing police officers at all levels. Learning how to be an effective listener is one of the most vital communication skills for successful policing. Drawing on the author’s vast experience as a specialist frontline police officer, this book is informal and easy-to-understand, with a sprinkle of humour, making it highly readable and accessible. It introduces an effective, tried and tested model to guide difficult conversations and covers a range of key topics of relevance to operational policing, including issues connected with diversity and with suicide. Supported by academic research, including counselling theory, it provides real-life examples to demonstrate how the tools work in practice, and questions and exercises to encourage personal reflection.
The Paradise Anomaly
It begins in Brooklyn. The Fairie Queen sends a pair of hipsters on a grand quest that ends in another world. In this other world, the guardian of the passage to Earth faces hard choices after learning troubling information about his predecessor. Then a billionaire's pet project upends this world's traditional society. The pitfalls of hidden politics are uncovered through dark humor and casual intrigue. Be advised, this book contains brief depictions of extreme violence.
It Came From the Closet
“Horror opened me up to new possibilities for survival … I saw power in freakery and transgression and wondered if it could be mine.” The relationship between horror films and the LGBTQ+ community? It’s complicated. Haunted houses, forbidden desires and the monstrous can have striking resonance for those who’ve been marginalised. But the genre’s murky history of an alarmingly heterosexual male gaze, queer-coded villains and sometimes blatant homophobia, is impossible to overlook. There is tension here, and there are as many queer readings of horror films as there are queer people. Edited by Joe Vallese, and with contributions by writers including Kirsty Logan and Carmen Maria Mac...
Tango Juliet Foxtrot
In thirty years on the front line of British policing, there is very little that Iain Donnelly didn't do: from being a uniformed constable on the beat in London to running counter-terrorism and surveillance operations, combatting child sexual exploitation and overseeing the investigation of the most serious crimes. During that time, he saw the job change irrevocably, to the point where the public no longer knows what to expect from the police and the police service no longer knows what to expect of itself. Tango Juliet Foxtrot – police code for 'the job's fucked' – reveals how constant political meddling and a hostile media narrative have had a devastating impact on the morale of police officers and their ability to protect the public. With the organisation cut by 20,000 officers and 23,000 police staff, only 7 per cent of reported crime now results in a charge – compared with around 20 per cent ten years ago. By turns fascinating and funny, poignant and uplifting, this compelling account paints a vivid picture of what life is really like for those tasked with keeping us safe – and, crucially, explores what needs to change to secure the future of British policing.
Everybody Gets Paid
Nathaniel Oakland is at his wit's end. He's a Hollywood writer, nearing the end of his run in the City of Angels. He bet it all when he moved out here from the East Coast years ago. And while he always meant to go back, something kept him hanging on. He's more or less sober, has had success, has known love, and has been kicked to the curb. Now he's planning his opus and is surrounded by the ghosts of all the writers who tried to do the same over the years. A postcard to Los Angeles, this is a sketch of the completely unglamorous life of a Hollywood ghostwriter, from his his creative lows to the highs from which no one ever wants to come down. It's Hollywood, baby, where everybody gets paid, right? This is the Dryline Rhapsody.
