Practical Training

Kelly understands burnout like no other. Having hit severe burnout with complete physical collapse herself, she discovered how little information was readily available that could provide her with the practical steps to recovery.

A journey in time through the author’s career with Staffordshire Police – from cadet to inspector – from schoolboy to man. ‘The practical jokes and camaraderie kept us sane.’ The book presents a cameo of some of the events which went on behind the scenes of policing in the seventies, eighties and nineties. A lifetime of side splittingly funny tales are mixed with some sad and tragic stories which made up the ‘policeman’s lot’ along with the black humour which often served to temper the emotions and relieve the stress. Snippets of social history – now long forgotten are ...