NOT ONE OF US: THE TRIAL THAT CHANGED POLICING IN BRITAIN FOR EVER

the long version

This is the story of how one police officer fought for two and a half years to clear his name after he was taken to trial at the Old Bailey - by his own employers. Iranian by birth, Ali Dizaei was once tipped to be the first Black chief constable. He joined the police force in London in 1986 and in 1999 was transferred to London's Metropolitan Police Service: the Met. On 18 January 2001, he was suspended from the Met with immediate effect. So began the story later described by his QC Mike Mansfield as 'of almost Orwellian proportions' in which Dizaei was accused of, amongst other things, being a spy, fiddling with his mileage expenses, doing favours for corrupt businessmen, frequenting prostitutes, using steroids and being a drug addict. Not One of Us is the story, told by the only man who knows the whole truth, of the rise and fall of the out-of-control coppers who tried to destroy him and how Dizaei refused to be beaten. Acquitted twice at the Old Bailey after a £7 million investigation, he's now back where he most wants to be: doing his job as a serving police officer.