Percy Sillitoe
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Sir Percy Joseph Sillitoe KBE DL was a British police and intelligence officer. He was chief constable of several police forces, and changed the role of radios, civilian staff, and women police office
Sillitoe in 1950
Glasgow razor gangs
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The Glasgow razor gangs were violent gangs that existed in the East End and South Side of Glasgow, Scotland in the late 1920s and 1930s and were named after their weapon of choice. H. Kingsley Long's
Percy Sillitoe
…criminal gangs. Sillitoe was Chief Constable of City of Glasgow Police from 1931 to 1943, when he was credited with breaking the power of the notorious Glasgow razor gangs, made infamous in the novel No Mean City. During his time as chief constable of Glasgow, he was also credited with the introduction of wireless radios…
Glasgow in the 1930s