Murder Mile

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Flying Squad Division of the Met that investigates robberies and any crime involving a gun.

Old Bill Slang for ‘the police’

PC Police Constable

Plonk Derogatory slang for female police used by male police.

Section house Residential accommodation for unmarried police officers

SOCO Scenes of crime officer, i.e. part of the forensic team

SPG Special Patrol Group, a mobile squad of highly trained officers deployed to assist other divisions as needed.

The Met The Metropolitan Police

To be nicked Slang for ‘to be arrested’

To nick Slang for ‘to steal’

WDC Woman Detective Constable

WDS Woman Detective Sargent

WPC Woman Police Constable

Jane Tennison, recently promoted to sergeant, looked out of the passenger window of the CID car at the snow, which was falling too lightly to settle. It was 4:30 on a freezing Saturday morning in mid-February 1979 and recently the overnight temperatures had been sub-zero. The weather reports were calling it one of the coldest winters of the century.

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