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Anecdotes of a Village Bobby
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John Woodgate practised Community Policing before the term became a strategy. The epitome of the ‘village Bobby', walking his ‘beat' or cycling his ‘patch', without radio or back-up outside the sound of a whistle, PC Woodgate relied on the respect he won from the neighbours he served. With warmth and humour, John Woodgate's memoirs offer the reader an insight into a bygone age of rural Policing with tales ranging from neighbourhood disputes to poaching and murder.
ISBN : 978-1-80074-961-0
Published: 29/02/2024
Pages : 286
Size : 205x140
Imprint : Olympia Publishers
John Woodgate
By the age of sixteen, John Woodgate (1934-2018) was training as a journalist with the Daily Mail in Fleet Street until his two years of National Service took him away to Cyprus where he worked as decoder for the Royal Corps of Signals. It was in 1959 that he embarked on a career as a police officer that would shape the rest of his life. Following his first rural beat in the small Essex village of Moreton, he went on to become the longest-serving sergeant at Ingatestone, retiring as acting-inspector after thirty years of service.
