Cop: a journalist infiltrates the police

Valentin Gendrot, an investigative journalist, infiltrated the police undetected for two years to answer the question of what really happens behind the walls of a police station. He witnessed police brutality, racism, blunders, and cover-ups, as well as the oppressive working conditions that officers endured.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 02 December 2021
Publisher: Scribe Publications

Police officers are required to provide a report on every incident they are involved in, but what transpired today will never be recorded. This is what police solidarity entails: what occurs in the van stays in the van.

However, this is not always the case. Not this time.

What transpires behind the walls of a police station? To answer this question, investigative journalist Valentin Gendrot put his life on hold for two years and became the first journalist in history to infiltrate the police undetected.

Within three months of training to become an officer, he was granted a permit to carry a weapon in public. And although he lived in daily fear of being discovered, in his book Gendrot hides nothing.

Assigned to work in a tough area of Paris where tensions between the law and locals ran high, Gendrot witnessed police brutality, racism, blunders, and cover-ups. But he also saw the oppressive working conditions that officers endured, and mourned the tragic suicide of a colleague.

Asking important questions about who holds institutional power and how we can hold them to account, Cop is a gripping exposé of a world never before seen by outsiders.

Weight: 200g
Dimension: 129 x 198 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781913348885