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to that I said I was scared he would ask me to do something, he told me that he would never ask me to do anything that I couldn'. t That was the approach at that time, he didn't ask me to do anything....
MANGOLD:
All you had to do was to receive money.
HESLOP:
Yep, that's right...
MANGOLD:
...I mean what did you think about that?
Well I wasn't too happy about it. I was very unhappy
HESLOF: about it.
Did you accept the money?
MANGOLD:
HESLOF:
I took the money yes.
MANGOLD:
And you kept it?
HESLOP:
Yes right...
MANGOLD: charged.
And then your
report was made and eventually they were
HESLOP:
Yep they were arrested about two weeks later.
MANGOLD:
Once it became known that you had turned them in, what
was the reaction amongst your own men?
HESLOP:
Well there was obviously some localised opposition, that's inevitable, a lot of...well a lot of people, PCs avoided me and a few fellow inspectors avoided me but it was a localised reaction...
MANGOLD:
But how tough was it? Because after all it was your
police station, it was your manor...
HESLOP:
...it was a helluva strain, no doubt at all about that. But you see they were friends of the two people who had been arrested, they'd known them for a long time, I was the newcomer there, yea it was a strain.
MANGOLD:
Heslop is the first British police officer to report a bribe to his superiors in three years. He has not been nominated for police commendation. The explanation is that it's difficult to commend a man for doing his job.
gone through?
HESLCP:
Why are you prepared to stay in the force after all you've
Well there's got to be a police force here somehow you know and if we all leave what's going to happen then? There's got to be a police force and I think it better if it is run by people like me than run by people like the guys who were arrested.
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