Girl in Blue : How One Woman Survived Fourteen Years in the Police

the long version

"When she made the decision to join the police force, Anne Ramsay had imagined what she would look like in a police uniform. She hadn't for one moment envisaged herself dressed as a heroin-addicted prostitute, walking the streets of Glasgow at night, retracing the steps of a young girl recently murdered..." "Girl in Blue is Anne's riveting story of the fourteen years she spent in the police, first as a WPC and then as a detective. Emerging from training school, Anne quickly found herself having to learn the ropes while out on the beat, never knowing whether she was about to come face to face with a violent criminal, a burglar funding his heroin habit, or even a corpse. From knocking on doors to deliver tragic news to unsuspecting relatives to catching drug dealers, and from watching a post-mortem to solving murder cases, Anne describes her life as a police officer." "But eventually Anne, who for so long had been part of the 'biggest gang in the world', found herself exiled from that gang as her world fell apart around her. Having joined the police believing she could help people and make a difference, her optimism was gradually destroyed as she realized differences between life on Scotland's toughest streets and life inside the force itself were sometimes hard to see."--BOOK JACKET.