Fight or Flight: Britain, France, and their Roads from Empire

[davidbfpo]

The catalyst for this discovery was Red Rat's RFI on policing in Iraq, thanks to Google for showing this book which slipped past me.

'At the End of the Line: Colonial Policing and the Imperial Endgame 1945-80' (Studies in Imperialism) by Georgina Sinclair, pub. 2010; which has rave reviews and includes several hundred interviews with colonial police officers:http://www.amazon.co.uk/At-End-Line-...S05DRQQY225V9D

Just ordered a copy, so an update in a few months time.

[Red Rat]

'At the End of the Line: Colonial Policing and the Imperial Endgame 1945-80' (Studies in Imperialism) by Georgina Sinclair, pub. 2010; which has rave reviews and includes several hundred interviews with colonial police officers:http://www.amazon.co.uk/At-End-Line-...S05DRQQY225V9D

Just ordered a copy, so an update in a few months time.

We can compare reviews as I have started on my copy. I have enjoyed what little I have skimmed through so far. Conspicuously absent from the aforesaid book is the Indian Police Service an area that has interested me for some time. What is very clear from the book is the heavy influence that police and policing from the Royal Irish Constabulary had in colonial policing. That expertise is something untapped by the current UK Government, although when the RUC became the PSNI and downsized many became security and policing contractors.