A Life Lived On The Edge

By Doug Stanyon

Doug Stanyon grew up in Rhodesia and joined the British South Africa Police Force as a 16 year-old cadet in 1962, receiving a disciplined and rigourous training as a professional policeman. As a regular policeman he served in the rural areas where police duties required investigations of all crimes, long patrols in national parks, tribal areas and farmlands, a fine life for a young man, notwithstanding the hard-drinking culture that prevailed.After six years, he resigned to travel the world with almost identical experiences as portrayed in James Michener's "The Drifters."Returning to the country of his birth, penniless and emaciated, he re-joined the Police force, with his experience soon became a Detective.Most of his service thereafter was in the wartime environment which prevailed from 1972 onwards. He served in the CID, in the investigation of terrorist atrocities, prosecution of terrorists and their sympathisers, the gathering and dissemination of information concerning terrorist activities. Doug Stanyon became an experienced policeman involved in fighting a vicious guerrilla war. Notwithstanding a certain defiance and impatience with slow-to-change desk wallahs, he was promoted to the rank of Detective Inspector.Unable to accept the surrender of his beloved country to the enemies he had fought, he resigned in 1980 and emigrated to Australia, which after a hard orientation. He revolutionised the Transportation and Risk Management of the "Valuables in Transit" Security Industry largely using the procedures and knowledge absorbed during his service as a member of the BSAP Regiment.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1549859307
• ISBN13: 9781549859304
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 390 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.9" x 6.0"