9370 Sooner or Later Everyone Pays a Price

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9370 is the author's Western Australian Police regimental number. The book is an incredible story of his time wearing those numbers. The stories are real but it reads like a fiction book and the reader may question if it all happened. It did and it's the first book of its genre from a Western Australian cop-guaranteed to engage and enlighten the reader about the realities of confronting crime on the front line.

Twice awarded for courageous action, he writes a genuine story about the pain of loss and despair which gave birth to hope and redemption for the crime fighter. The book describes an adventurous and at times humorous but most definitely a costly personal journey into the world of law enforcement in Western Australia. The journey will give the reader a new outlook, a revelation on what they think they know about police.

You'll see what really happens to streets cops-the stuff not normally seen by the public. It's behind the scenes, the images, smells and emotions that come with every experience. All which becomes embedded in a cops mind where it accumulates year after year. It's the stuff that mentally affects cops one way or another, whether consciously acknowledged or not. It's what makes post traumatic stress and suicide an ever-present reality.

It's a journey to the dark and ugly side of life down to the threshold of hell. Trapped in the dark abyss, he pressed the gun barrel into the flesh of his forehead and begin to gently squeeze the trigger. In one second it would all be over, final and certain. Suddenly a thought invaded his mind, it was enough to make him hesitate and ease off the trigger. It was an illuminated silver ray of light that penetrated through thick dark storm clouds. His life and career changed at that moment, from that one invasive, illuminated thought. The thought was powerful and conquering, prompting hope and a spark of courage that ignited a fire within to fight back and climb out of the black hole of post traumatic stress.

It's an inspirational ending that would encourage others in similar circumstances. The book promotes community understanding about the actual price many law enforcement officers pay to carry out their role. But it could be your story too, because sooner or later, we all pay a price for what we do.