Robbers, Cops, Crime: An Illustrated History of Policing

Author: Roy Apps
Publisher: Wayland
Category: Children's, Crime
Book Format: Hardcover

Discover the amazing history of policing through photographs - from historic invaders to Interpol and DNA profiling.


About the author: Roy Apps is the author of more than 50 children's books, including The Twitches, Fang Gang and How To Handle. He is the author of the highly successful Dream to Win series for Franklin Watts. His novel The Secret Summer of Daniel Lyons won The Writers' Guild Children's Book Award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Awards. It is now a successful musical.

Roy also writes extensively for radio, theatre and TV. In 2001 he was awarded a BAFTA for his children's TV work, which includes Byker Grove, The Ghost Hunter and Barmy Aunt Boomerang.

Roy visits schools, libraries and bookshops to read from his books and to share the secrets of The Shed in Your Head. He runs Writing Projects for all ages and over the last few years has helped young and new writers make books, stage plays, films, performance poetry and most recently, an opera.

Table Of Contents
1: Law and Order

2: Ancient Britain

3: Early UK Law Enforcement

4: Staying Alive

5: Runners and River Police

6: Peelers and Bobbies

7: Detectives

8: New Technology

9: Women Police and Detectives

10: Goodbye Tardis

11: Science and Crime

12: Modern Policing

13: International Policing

14: Behind the Scenes
About Roy Apps
About the author: Roy Apps is the author of more than 50 children's books, including The Twitches, Fang Gang and How To Handle. He is the author of the highly successful Dream to Win series for Franklin Watts. His novel The Secret Summer of Daniel Lyons won The Writers' Guild Children's Book Award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Awards. It is now a successful musical.
Roy also writes extensively for radio, theatre and TV. In 2001 he was awarded a BAFTA for his children's TV work, which includes Byker Grove, The Ghost Hunter and Barmy Aunt Boomerang.
Roy visits schools, libraries and bookshops to read from his books and to share the secrets of The Shed in Your Head. He runs Writing Projects for all ages and over the last few years has helped young and new writers make books, stage plays, films, performance poetry and most recently, an opera.

(BK-9781526300812)

SKU BK-9781526300812
Barcode # 9781526300812
Brand Wayland
Artist / Author Roy Apps
Shipping Weight 0.4000kg
Shipping Width 0.210m
Shipping Height 0.010m
Shipping Length 0.270m
Assembled Length 26.670m
Assembled Height 0.760m
Assembled Width 21.080m
Type Hardcover

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