Exclusive teaser: “Dirty, filthy monstrous scumbags”  Undercover drug busting cop opens up on police corruption. 

It was a perilous, risky, life on the mean shadowy streets of London that could have come straight out of Donnie Brasco, or the Sweeney.

First job buying half a kilogram of cocaine.

Undercover cop Peter Bleksley told Matt Haycox how he risked his life taking down the drug dealers. His first job was buying half a kilogram of cocaine from a South American drug dealer. On any given day, he could have three different identities. 

“I just wanted to nick people. Nick criminals; that’s what I wanted to do!”

A gun to the head.

It was a dangerous way to live. Bleksley ran full tilt into a drug dealer pointing a pistol at his head; on another botched operation he ran with blood pumping from his forehead. 

Bleksley, now an author and media personality, grew up in London under the eye of an abusive alcoholic father, who abandoned the family.  

“It was good riddance, to bad rubbish.”

“You learn not to get your head kicked in.”

He flunked school and was veering off the rails when his mother invited a beat policeman into her living room. The kindly policeman persuaded the teenage Bleksley to join the force. 

“You learn not to get your head kicked in” 

“I Loved investigating and kicking lots of doors in.”

Yet, Bleksley castigates the force he risked his life for. He says they used to call it: noble cause corruption.

Beware the ‘happy bag’.

It usually came in the shape of what the police used to call a ‘happy bag.’  It contained a  sawn off shotgun, gloves and balaclava, to be left in someone’s car, or house…

All of this pales in comparison to the current crop of police sex offenders, he says.

“Dirty, Filthy, monstrous scumbags”. 

“It is absolutely scandalous.”

“Got a prison to themselves because there are so many of them…It is absolutely scandalous.”

In all, a riveting interview from a born storyteller who has lived a rare and remarkable life on the edge.

The end of his undercover career, at Gatwick Airport, amid guns, heroin and suspected terrorists has to be heard to be believed.