{"id":19070,"date":"2020-11-09T16:04:51","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T15:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=19070"},"modified":"2020-11-09T16:04:53","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T15:04:53","slug":"the-life-of-an-ruc-officer-told-in-new-book-crime-comedy-and-combat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2020\/11\/the-life-of-an-ruc-officer-told-in-new-book-crime-comedy-and-combat\/","title":{"rendered":"The Life Of An RUC Officer Told In New Book Crime, Comedy And Combat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Ex RUC officer and author William Clegg releases his book Crime, Comedy & Combat. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After serving for 21 years in the RUC William Clegg today releases his story of life in the frontline as a serving officer in his d\u00e9but book, Crime, Comedy and Combat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From his earliest memories, through to joining the force in 1978 in Enniskillen William\u2019s heartfelt telling of his and his colleagues experiences during some of the darkest days in Northern Ireland\u2019s history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

William regards himself as privileged to have worked in and survived the challenges inherent in high risk, hostile, urban and rural environments throughout the province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now living in Indonesia he said the book was a way to explain his experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is an anthology for people of all ages of how life changed for a young person prior to, during and subsequent to joining the RUC,\u201d he explained. It is about how \u2018we\u2019 were during that bleak period, how we coped at that time and how the incidents and emotions resonate to this day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI feel that anyone, whether security services or others, will have a feel of true events,\u00a0episodes, characters and emotions personally experienced by me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tina Calder of publishers Excalibur Press said that it was a privilege to bring William\u2019s tale to the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs we now live in relatively peaceful times we forget the horrors that were part of daily life,\u201d she said. \u201cWilliam has been able to encapsulate the experiences of so many RUC officers who had the daily job of a police officer dealing with crime, whilst also under constant threat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNo matter your allegiances this is the human story of that time, told compassionately.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Crime, Comedy & Combat William tells his story for people of all ages, how a young person\u2019s life changed during the Troubles, joining the RUC, and the incidents and emotions that coloured his life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crime, Comedy and Combat, published by Excalibur Press is available from Amazon and <\/em><\/strong>excaliburpress.co.uk<\/em><\/strong><\/a> <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After serving for 21 years in the RUC William Clegg today releases his story of life in the frontline as a serving officer in his d\u00e9but book, Crime, Comedy and Combat. From his earliest memories, through to joining the force in 1978 in Enniskillen William\u2019s heartfelt telling of his and his colleagues experiences during some … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19070"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19073,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19070\/revisions\/19073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}