Crime and Corruption at the Yard

A Scotland Yard insider blows the whistle on police corruption in “a book . . . that everyone concerned with law and order should read” ( Crime Review ). During David Woodland’s nineteen years of service with the United Kingdom’s Metropolitan Police, the ‘thin blue line’ came under intense pressure. In addition to the routine caseload of gang crime, murder, and armed robbery, Irish terrorist groups launched a vicious and prolonged campaign of violence. Also, then-Police Commissioner Sir Robert M