We’ve another corker for you this month at CreativeMornings/Derby - Tom Andrews speaking on the global theme of Perspective and sprinkled I’m sure with some interesting insights from his time and research in policing.
Tom is a lecturer in policing at the University of Derby, teaching new police officers on the Police Constable Degree Apprentice (PCDA) programme. He has been lecturing for three years, before which he was a uniformed police sergeant working on emergency response in Nottingham for thirteen years.
During this time he researched and co-authored a history of women in policing within that force. He is the editor of the annual Journal of the Police History Society since 2020 and has published three books: The Greatest Policeman? A Biography of Capt. Athelstan Popkess CBE, OStJ: Chief Constable of Nottingham City Police 1930 – 1959; The Sharpe End: Murder, Violence and Knife Crime on Nottingham’s Thin Blue Line; and Women in Policing: A History Through Personal Stories. He has also published articles in various academic journals.
