Once an enemy of the apartheid police, Andrew Brown has worked as a police reservist for almost twenty years. In this book he takes the reader on patrol with him - into the ganglands of the Cape Flats, the townships of Masiphumelele and Nyanga, and the high-walled Southern Suburbs.
Good Cop, Bad Cop is a personal account of the perilous and often conflicting work of a SAPS officer. Brown describes being shot at, arresting suspects in a drug bust, chasing down leads in a homicide investigation, and keeping the peace during the UCT student protests.
Brown illustrates how difficult the job of the police is, and how easy it is to react with undue force. Yet he argues passionately that the role of the police is to be a service to communities and not a force to suppress social discontent. Gripping and thought-provoking, this is a fascinating insight into the social fabric of current South Africa.
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Penguin Random House South Africa
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978-1-77609-096-9 (9781776090969)
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Andrew Brown practises as an advocate in Cape Town and is a reservist sergeant in the South African Police Service. He is the author of five novels: Inyenzi, about the Rwandan genocide, the crime novels Coldsleep Lullaby, Refuge and Solace, and a novel set in South Sudan, Devil's Harvest. In Street Blues and Good Cop Bad Cop he wrote about his experiences as a police reservist. Andrew won the 2006 Sunday Times Fiction Prize for Coldsleep Lullaby, and his work has been shortlisted for the Alan Paton Award and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Africa Region).
