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Can lollipops reduce anti-social behaviour? Or wizards halt street gambling? Do fake bus stops protect pensioners? Will organising a dog show stop young people killing each other? Stevyn Colgan believes that the answer to all of those questions is Yes. Packed with fascinating anecdotes and important questions, this astonishing book reveals the innovative and imaginative ways Colgan tried to prevent crime during his thirty years on the police force.
Colgan worked for twelve of those years as part of a unique team called The Problem Solving Unit. With no budget and laughable resources, they were given an extraordinary brief -- to solve problems of crime and disorder that wouldnt respond to traditional policing. They were told they could try anything as long as it wasnt illegal, wasnt immoral, wouldnt bring the police into disrepute, and didnt cost very much.
With amusing, insightful and sometimes controversial approaches to problem solving, Colgan mixes personal anecdotes from his time on the force with real-world examples of how The Problem Solving Unit helped build communities and prevent recurring crime.
At its core, this books message is simple: police should direct far more effort towards preventing crime before it happens rather than solving crime after it has happened.
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Stevyn Colgan is an author, artist, public speaker and oddly-spelled Cornishman.
He has, among other things, been a chef, a brewer, a milkman, a comics publisher and the official artist for the 2006 UK National Childrens Book Fair. Hes written briefing notes for two prime ministers, TV scripts for Gerry Anderson, helped build dinosaur skeletons for the Natural History Museum and movie monsters for Bruce Willis to shoot at.
But for 30 years he was a police officer in London, during which time he was set on fire twice, was sworn at by a royal, met two US presidents and a pope, was kissed by Princess Diana and let Freddie Mercury wear his helmet. In between such events he was part of the Metropolitan Polices experimental Problem Solving Unit.
He is a consultant for change agency Left/Field London and was a judge for the 2014 Transmission Awards for the Communication of Ideas. He is a visiting lecturer at a number of UK universities and has given hundreds of talks across the UK and USA.
He is also one of the elves that research and write the popular BBC TV series QI and its sister show, The Museum of Curiosity, for BBC Radio 4.
Joined-Up Thinking
Henhwedhlow: The Clotted Cream of Cornish Folktales
Constable Colgans Connectoscope
The Third Condiment
Colgeroons
Saving Bletchley Park (With Dr Sue Black OBE)
I Remember: Reflections on Fishing and Childhood
Ottakars Local History: High Wycombe
The QI F Annual
The QI G Annual
The QI H Annual
The EFG Bumper Book of QI Annuals
This edition first published in 2016
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Stevyn Colgan, 2016
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Printed in Great Britain by CPI Group (UK)
Dedicated to the unsung heroes who work in the public sector who never get the recognition they deserve
Prologue xv
1: Slobby to Bobby 1
2: The Tribe of Bin 21
3: If the dragon says no... 46
4: The Wizard of Waltham Forest 77
5: The ape that moved a planet 103
6: No one ever got sent on a linear thinking course 130
7: Lobsternomics 155
8: Rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic 178
9: The phantom bus stops of Dsseldorf 202
10: The sensuous adventures of Kiki and Bouba 230
11: The R Factor 258
Epilogue: To get to the other side 280
A bibliography and full list of sources used in this book can be accessed at:
https://colganology.wordpress.com/why-did-the-policeman-cross-the-road-references-and-sources/
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One curious fact about leaving the police service is that, as soon as youve handed in your warrant card and hung up your helmet and boots, its like you were never a cop. All access to police buildings and IT systems is immediately rescinded, and you cant even read reports you wrote without applying for a copy via a Freedom of Information Act request. For this reason, much of this book is written from memory, supported by entries in my own personal diaries, press reports and by the recollections of ex-colleagues who were present with me when certain events took place.
I am also acutely aware that I signed lots of scary-looking pieces of paper including the Official Secrets Act when I was a nave young recruit and Im not stupid enough to write anything that might see me banged up in the Tower of London or living the life of a whistle-blower on the run. Therefore, some details have been changed and persons/places made anonymous to avoid corporate embarrassment, or breaches of security, and to protect individuals who may still be involved in sensitive or covert operations. Where I have not been able to clear permissions, I have used generalised or invented locations and have not named any of the individuals involved.
None of this will affect the validity of the stories you are about to read.
All views expressed are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of any of the organisations featured in this book.
For every complex problem there is a simple solution and it is always wrong.
H L Mencken
If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.
Charles Kettering
In 2002 a London council was getting complaints from the public about drunks monopolising the benches in a particular public park. So they decided to remove the benches and, therefore, the source of the complaints. It was, they believed, the simplest solution to their problem.
No benches = no drunks = no complaints.
However, the complaints increased tenfold and got angrier. Most came from disabled people, pensioners and young parents who now had nowhere to sit. But the strongest complaints came from the families who had sponsored the benches, all of which bore plaques memorialising a loved one.
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