I used to watch all the 1960s TV police dramas in my childhood with ‘Auntie Margaret’, a remarkable woman who was the carer at our children’s home in Surrey. I’d always wanted to be a police officer. They thought I’d come from a privileged background, but when they heard I’d been brought up in care, that grabbed their attention and several of them said they thought I should write a book. I wrote it after talking to a group of West London College students. The title, though shocking, symbolises my feelings of being targeted, combined with the sense of isolation and marginalisation I often felt in my career.ĭespite my experience, I want my story to give hope and inspiration to others. I was the only black police officer on the frontline of the Brixton riots in 1981 and it was shouted at me by a black rioter. I called my memoir Kill The Black One First because it was once said to me. “ I thought my colour would be irerelevant.
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