...from the mind of a fictional character
by
Steve
Regan
(character
from the book Who The F*ck Am I?
(Steve Regan Undercover Cop Book 1 written by
Stephen Bentley)
Year: 1976
Place: United Kingdom
Steve Regan, fictional undercover cop,
if allowed to peer into the future would throw his hands up in horror to learn
of the existence of the UK’s Undercover Policing Inquiry.
“Hey, Red! I had a strange dream about
the future. The government had set up an inquiry into undercover policing.”
“You have to be kidding me!” Red said.
As he explained, Regan came to understand
the inquiry became necessary owing to undercover agents in London’s
Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) regularly engaging in dirty tactics.
They were part of a department so secret
that the Commissioner of the MPS knew nothing about it or its activities.
One of the most abhorrent things that
came to light was many of these undercover cops had taken on false identities
stolen from dead children. To make matters even worse, if that is possible,
many struck up long term relationships with women who had no idea who they were
really sleeping with. Some of those women had children by these undercover
cops.
In Regan’s dream he initially believed
such disgusting tactics could never have existed in his time, 1976. But, then
he learned that it had been going on as far back as the early 1970’s. He
thought, ‘No wonder I never knew if the MPS Commissioner was in the dark.’
Regan started to dig deeper around the
issues unearthed by the government inquiry. He did not know whether to laugh or
cry at some of the things he discovered.
“Hey Red! The College of Policing have
issued a rule book about what undercover cops can and cannot do. Guess what? We
are prohibited from using drugs!”
“Now you’re talking crazy, Regan. What’s
that stuff you’re smoking?”
In disbelief, Regan read all about these
new guidelines for undercover cops in the new rule book. He was alarmed to read
that UC’s, as they are now called, would be subjected to random drug tests and
if found to be positive would result in both disciplinary and criminal proceedings.
“The future’s gone mad. How the hell do
they expect us to infiltrate drug cartels if we can’t use ourselves? Okay, no
one would inject but smoking weed or an occasional line of cocaine is all part
of the job.”
Red nodded his head.
“What are we supposed to do? Tell them
we can’t smoke weed because we are undercover cops?” Regan said.
Regan reflected a while before he
finalized his conclusion. “Red, my friend, this is what happens when the bad
apples lose all sense of propriety. It screws it for everyone. I’m glad I was
undercover back in the day. I don’t like what I see in the future.”
Red shrugged, at the same time handing
Regan what he was smoking.
Note for non-UK readers: there really is a UK Undercover Policing Inquiry.
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Wednesday, 15 November 2017
If fictional characters were real and LIVED ALONGSIDE US @StephenBentley8 #1970s #crime
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