Last year I wrote an essay for a website : http://british-police-history.uk/cgi-bin/journal.cgi?a=a2142d42a288d075&m=ac8fa3ca90a9256f    which detailed my introduction to policing in the City in 1961 as a tender-foot rookie copper in B Division, the Central Division.  I'm afraid you have to be a former serving officer to join the group which hosts the website but it is an account of what it was like to be a probationer PC in the days when Bobbies walked the beat without personal radio, witho