Authors: David Lowe
A Real Job
A REAL JOB
a david hurst story
david Lowe
AuthorHouse™
1663 Liberty Drive
Bloomington, IN 47403
Phone: 1-800-839-8640
© 2012 by David Lowe. All rights reserved.
No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.
Published by AuthorHouse 07/31/2012
ISBN: 978-1-4678-9684-9 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-4678-9685-6 (e)
Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.
Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.
This book is printed on acid-free paper.
Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.
Contents
List of Acronyms, Abbreviations and UK Police Jargon
Chapter One
Crumpsall, Manchester, 22.40 hours, 25
th
October 1996
Chapter Two Warwick Lane, London, 17.10 hours, Wednesday, 27
th
June, present day
Chapter Three Residents’ Bar, Strathmore Hotel, Kensington, London, 19.25 hours, Wednesday, 27
th
June
Chapter Four Dingle, Liverpool, 15.40 hours, Friday, 29
th
June
Chapter Five Great Homer Street Market, Liverpool, 09.15 hours, Saturday, 30
th
June
Chapter Six Isaac Street, Dingle, Liverpool Sunday, 1
st
July, 12.15 hours
Chapter
Seven Reilly’s Bar, Manchester City Centre, Sunday, 1
st
July, 14.30
hours
Chapter Eight GMP Special Branch Offices, Monday, 2
nd
July, 09.00 hours
Chapter Ten Manchester—London Train, Tuesday, 3
rd
July, 10.55 hours
Chapter Eleven Warwick Lane, London, Tuesday, 3
rd
July, 18.35 hours
Chapter Twelve Euston Station, London, Wednesday, 4
th
July, 09.25 hours
Chapter Thirteen The Atrium Club, London, 19.20 hours, Wednesday, 4
th
July
Chapter fourteen GMP’s Special Branch Office, 09.30 hours, Thursday, 5
th
July
Chapter Fifteen GMP’s Special Branch Office, 16.30 hours, Thursday, 5
th
July
Chapter Sixteen GMP’s Special Branch Office, 18.30 hours, Thursday, 5
th
July
Chapter Seventeen Crossmaglen, Northern Ireland, 08.10 hours, Friday, 6
th
July
Chapter
EighteEn ‘Yew Tree Farm’, near Inishkeen, 09.40 hours, Friday, 6
th
July
Chapter Nineteen MI5 Offices, Belfast, 13.45 hours, Friday, 6
th
July
Chapter Twenty Cheshire’s Special Branch Office, Chester, 19.32 hours, Friday, 6
th
July
Chapter Twenty-One Declan Murphy’s House, Frodsham, 20.45 hours, Friday, 6
th
July
Chapter Twenty-Two The Bull Public House, Yoxall, Staffordshire, 22.05 hours, Friday, 6
th
July
Chapter Twenty-Three Murphy’s Business Offices, Runcorn, 09.40 hours, Saturday, 7
th
July
Chapter Twenty-Six
Diamonds night club, Albert Dock, Liverpool, 00.40 hours, Sunday,
7
th
July
Chapter Twenty-Seven Poppythorn Lane, Prestwich, Manchester, 06.15 hours, Sunday, 7
th
July
Chapter
Twenty-Nine Nero’s Coffee House, Eastgate Street, Chester, 10.50 hours, Sunday, 7
th
July
Chapter Thirty Car Park outside Cheshire Police Headquarters, 14.30, Sunday, 7
th
July
Chapter Thirty-One Park Road, Liverpool, 15.10 hours, Sunday, 7
th
July
Chapter Thirty-Two Special Branch Office, Cheshire Headquarters, 19.05 hours, Sunday, 7
th
July
Chapter Thirty-Three Special Branch Offices, Cheshire Headquarters, 19.15 hours, Sunday, 7
th
July
Chapter Thirty-Four Murphy’s house, Frodsham, 21.05 hours, Sunday, 7
th
July
Chapter Thirty-Five Room 405, Grosvenor Hotel, Chester, 06.30 hours, Monday, 8
th
July
Chapter
Thirty-Seven Main Dining Room, Grosvenor Hotel, Chester, 06.30 hours, Tuesday, 9
th
July
Chapter Thirty-Nine Custody Office, Deva Road Police Station, Chester, 13.25 hours, Tuesday, 9
th
July
Chapter Forty
DCI’s Office Cheshire’s Special Branch Department, Chester, 15.00 hours,
Monday, 9
th
July
Chapter Forty-One Grosvenor Hotel, Chester, 19.02 hours, Tuesday, 9
th
July
Chapter Forty-Two Belmarsh Prison, High Security Wing, 10.30 hours, Tuesday, 10
th
November
List
of Acronyms, Abbreviations and UK
Police Jargon
CPS | Crown Prosecution Service (equivalent of the USA’s |
District Attorney) | |
CO19 | Metropolitan Police’s Firearms Unit |
DC | Detective Constable |
DCI | Detective Chief Inspector |
DI | Detective Inspector |
Drum | Police slang for a house/flat |
DS | Detective Sergeant |
Europol | The European Union’s policing agency, staffed by |
police officers on secondment. Main role-intelligence | |
agency and assistance to member states’ policing | |
agencies in transnational crime and counter-terrorism | |
FBI | The Federal Bureau of Investigation, the USA’s federal |
policing agency that investigates serious federal crime | |
and internal terrorist threats | |
GMP | Greater Manchester Police |
IPCC | Independent Police Complains Commission |
Jack | Police slang for a detective |
Lifting | Police jargon for an arrest |
MI5 | The UK’s security service that investigate internal |
threats to the UK | |
MI6 | The UK’s security service that investigate external |
threats to the UK | |
MO | Modus Operandi—pattern of behaviour, usually |
associated with criminal behaviour. | |
Obs Spot | Police slang word for a location used by |
the police to conduct static surveillance | |
PIRA | The Provisional Irish Republican Army, a faction of the |
IRA that broke away in the late 1960’s from the | |
IRA and was the main group active in acts of | |
terrorism against Britain during the war in the | |
north of Ireland 1969-1998 | |
Real IRA | A breakaway group of the IRA. Following |
the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, its members could | |
not accept PIRA signing up to it and continued to | |
fight for Irish independence from Britain and a | |
united Ireland | |
PSNI | Police Service of Northern Ireland |
Reccie | Police slang for when the police survey an |
investigation scene checking out possible observation | |
points, population and any potential danger spots. | |
SB | Special Branch |
S015 | Metropolitan Police’s counter-terrorism unit, the Met’s |
equivalent of the Special Branch | |
The Met | The Metropolitan Police |
Chapter One
Crumpsall, Manchester,
22.40
hours, 25
th
October 1996