Crime fiction needs more clean-living cops, says police chief

Avon and Somerset chief constable Nick Gargan objects to portrayals of damaged detectives like Ian Rankin's Rebus

Crime writers should depict more detectives as clean-living and balanced rather than damaged and hard-drinking like the Inspector Rebus of Ian Rankin's novels, a chief constable has said.

Nick Gargan, chief constable of Avon and Somerset, said some police officers modelled themselves on fictional cops when they were interviewed on television in high-profile cases.

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