I Am Norwell Roberts
The story of the Met’s first Black police officer *COMING SOON TO YOUR SCREENS WITH REVELATION FILMS*
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- Hardcover
224 pages
- Release Date
11 October 2022
Summary
Norwell Roberts, who became the Met’s first Black police officer in 1967, found out he had a new job the same way the rest of the country did - from a Daily Telegraph headline that read ‘MET TO HAVE FIRST COLOURED POLICEMAN’.
From that day forward his face became a symbol - of acceptance, of a diverse police force, of a changing Britain. He was turned into the poster boy for progressive policing - but his day-to-day reality was anything but. Greeted with prejudice, ridic…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781399800884 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1399800884 |
| Author: | Norwell Roberts |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 11 October 2022 |
| Weight: | 340g |
| Dimensions: | 218mm x 140mm x 26mm |
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About The Author
Norwell Roberts
Norwell Roberts was born in 1945 in Anguilla, and moved to the UK in 1956 to join his mother in Kent, in the predominantly white suburb of Bromley. After a school career marred by racism and a stint as an impoverished lab assistant, aged 20 he saw an ad recruiting for the Metropolitan Police and applied, though like all Black candidates at the time he was rejected due to the catch-all excuse of ‘temperament’. He reapplied and was accepted a year later, embarking on a 30+ year career that took him undercover, on some of the biggest cases in London policing, and ultimately to the higher levels of the Met. He is now retired to focus on charity work.
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