Robert Chesshyre is a former US correspondent of The Observer and author of The Return of a Native Reporter and The Force: Inside the Police. He writes occasionally for The Week as well as The Daily Telegraph Magazine and the New Statesman.
It was meant to be a 1930s 'garden estate' – today it is as deprived as many inner city communities
And where is the suave John Yates now? Acting as police adviser to the Bahrain government
Threatened by Amin's thugs, offered a role on Broadway, spat on by London fascists: what makes John Sentamu tick
Sadly, other ethnic minority police officers are likely to suffer as a result of Dizaei’s actions
No flirting, no boozing, no nothing – Dame Elizabeth’s warning to police is misguided and mistimed
The fee-paying elite marry one another, give each other jobs and assume that's how it's meant to be
Robert Chesshyre: If it takes a foreign police chief or an army officer to lead the Met, bring him on
If Delroy Grant’s victims had been young and attractive, there would have been more effort to catch him
Record complaints against police reduce public sympathy over pay and number cuts
Plan to DNA test thousands of men is a timely reminder - when murders aren’t easy to solve, they can be very hard
Robert Chesshyre: Landlord Jefferies vilified as contempt of court law goes out of the window again
Charles and Camilla get a fawning apology from the Met commissioner. But they didn’t need emergency brain surgery
Robert Chesshyre: Police in Northumbria hid behind IPCC ‘self-referral’ as Moat eluded them
Robert Chesshyre: When PC Blakelock died, the police on London estates acted like ‘an army of occupation’
The shambolic inquiry into ‘murders’ at Haut de la Garenne once again illustrates the hysteria that surrounds child abuse investigations
Endless protestations of loyalty and love are not the stuff of strong families, says Robert Chesshyre
The Loyalist leader will always be Dr No to Robert Chesshyre, who reported from Ulster in the 1970s
Robert Chesshyre reports on the incident threatening to go far beyond the boundaries of cricket
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