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Spike Island: Portrait of a Police Division
Spike Island Portrait of a Police Division Author:James McClure An extremely fascinating fact-book about the police in a specific area of Liverpool, England. a Division of the Merseyside Police, 1,417 blighted acres of tough, humorous, rumbustious lawlessness in the heart of Liverpool. Policemen tend to think of their Division as an island unique in its character, problems, criminality. The name once given t... more »o this notorious district and which still lingers is Spike Island. It deals with the attitudes and opinions of British policemen and gives a vivid picture of their day-to-day routine work and of English society.« less