This was the time of the Belgian Congo debacle where ethnic cleansing
coincided with Steve's first police posting near the Northern Rhodesia
border with the Congo, at the age of 21. He graphically describes
being knifed, ambushed, stoned, wounded by bow and arrow and shotgun
and had his hand broken several times. He saved the life of President
Kaunda from a potential assassination attempt and acted as a driver
and bodyguard to President Tsombe of the breakaway state of Katanga.
Steve was solely responsible for exposing and tracking down a
dangerous British Army deserter and communist spy working in the Congo
and Northern Rhodesia (Zambia), seeing him neutralised and his
operation disbanded. Throughout the book, he gives full credit to his
African police colleagues for their immense courage, humour, loyalty
and total dedication. The book will standout because it depicts
unique, true stories of dealing with witchcraft murders and
cannibalism in all its repugnant forms. Steve, personally thwarted an
ambush on a group of famous Congo mercenaries known as the Wild Geese.
He describes incidents of black magic, kidnapping, arson, gunrunning
and people trafficking. He successfully detected the first computer
fraud in the territory, and later for the first time, brought back a
European fugitive in a series of fraud cases to face justice, from the
atrocious apartheid country of South Africa; of being given a
government award for his part in combatting the slaughter of wildlife
and in taking part in the search for the downed aircraft of the United
Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld – still the subject of
much controversy today. Steve's life was saved several times by his
courageous Doberman, Alex regarded as a witch doctor by local tribes.
This is the true, action-packed, unadulterated stories of those
frantic and dangerous years, where a young police inspector found
himself confronted by fearsome actions and events well beyond his
complete understanding while serving in the elite police force in
Northern Rhodesia now Zambia, which was then a British Protectorate
prior to independence. Steve has strived not to duplicate any of these
true stories, which provides an indication of just how involved and
energises his dedicated years of service really were. Nevertheless, he
pushed on regardless, with the realisation that he was doing an
important and necessary job for the benefit of the unprivileged
peoples of the country; yet the police were fighting on two fronts,
trying to protect the vulnerable citizens and at the same time
endeavouring to stop the slaughter of the country's wildlife.
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Police Investigations at the Heart of Africa
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781526764102
Publisert
2021
Utgiver
Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
Forfatter