Book Reviews

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Scarlet Tunic

Go on patrol with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Find out what it is like to be a police officer...

"It is difficult to imagine a more difficult occupation in today's society than that of police officer. In Scarlet Tunic, a 27-year-old veteran of the Mounted Police, Robert Gordon Teather, sets out to demonstrate the complexities of the profession and the fact that police officers are as flawed as the rest of us...

Teather ... gently nudges the surface of some of the profoundly disturbing aspects of daily policing. For example, the book strongly suggests that many police officers relish violent acts, chiefly committed in self-defence, almost to the point of sadism. A female officer brandishes a severed ear, which she bit off an attacker, to prove her toughness to occasionally skeptical male colleagues. Have these individuals been co-opted by the dark world they police? In some cases, the answer seems to be yes."
Review by - Steven R. Hewitt

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