From Surveyor to Servant: The Democratisation of the Police (With Reference to the Brandenburg Police, Germany)

Links

http://www.polizei.brandenburg.de/
The Brandenburg Police's website, in German

http://www.die-volkspolizei.de/
A private site on the Volkspolizei, in German

http://www.inpol.de/
German police information site, in German

http://www.gdp-brandenburg.de/
Website of the main German Police union, the GdP

About My Family and Me

John PortraitFrom humble Yorkshire lad to honorary Midlander, I've been in the making since 1971 and still haven't made it yet.

Born in Bradford in 1971 and raised in the village of Oxenhope in Brontë country, I attended Coventry University between 1990 and 1994, where I studied Modern Languages (German and French as core languages and Russian ab initio), with a third year spent between Potsdam, Germany and Grenoble, France.

I met Emma Paddison in 1993, we married in 1996 and now have two girls, Murron (born 1998) and Philippa (born 2001), and one boy, Tristan (born in 2008).

I live in Nuneaton, Warwickshire and am webmaster for a CAD/CAM software company in Coventry. So much for the Modern Languages degree!

I have played the drums since 1981 and was a member of Coventry originals band BAiT between its birth in 1996 and its demise in 2007. I now play classical guitar and mandolin for my own amusement.