Acknowledgements 8 Foreword 11 I: West Country Boy 13 II: Escape to Hong Kong 20 III: Police Training School 22 IV: Exploring Hong Kong 33 V: Passing out from PTS 38 VI: A Kind of Freedom in Sha Tin 41 VII: The ICAC 47 VIII: Vice Squad 49 IX: A Bomb in Tai Po 56 X: Moving into Tsim Sha Tsui 58 XI: John MacLennan 60 XII: Becoming a Court Prosecutor 62 XIII: Life in the Officers' Mess 70 XIV: Police HQ - Polmil 74 XV: Vacation Leave 81 XVI: Police Rugby 86 XVII: At the Emergency Control Centre 91 XVIII: CID Detective 95 XIX: The Drugs Bust 102 XX: Hong Kong's Biggest Robbery 106 XXI: Death in Service 109 XXII: The Snake Catcher 111 XXIII: Moving out of New World Apartments 113 XXIV: Adventure Sports 117 XXV: The Sex Trade 121 XXVI: Expat Life 128 XXVII: The Drugs Trade 139 XXVIII: The Case of the Human Soul 144 XXIX: A Very Strange Case 149 XXX: A Nasty Murder in Kai Tak 152 XXXI: Chief Inspector 164 XXXII: Illegal Immigrants 166 XXXIII: Moving to King's Park 174 XXXIV: Adventure on the Ji Fung 177 XXXV: Race Marshalling 180 XXXVI: Back in Mong Kok 182 XXXVII: Presenting Police Report 193 XXXVIII: Police Training School Instructor 195 XXXIX: The Marine Police 204 XL: Countdown to the Handover 212 XLI: Life after 1997 221 XLII: The British Legacy 232 Bibliography 237.