Crossing the Line of Duty: How Corruption, Greed and Sleaze Brought Down the Flying Squad

by Neil Root and Neil Root

Downfall explores, for the first time, how the Sweeney (the Flying Squad), the Elite Serious Organized Crime Unit, and the Obscene Publications Squad (the Dirty Squad) descended to unprecedented levels of corruption in the 1960s and 1970s, leading the infamous gangster Charlie Richardson to say that "the most lucrative, powerful and extensive protection racket ever to exist was administered by the Metropolitan Police." Sir Robert Mark, who became...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0750989203
• ISBN13: 9780750989206
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 208 Pages