![]() ![]() How all this has come to pass she recounts in her memoir launched last week, The Real Prime Suspect, and explains further at her home in a village in Surrey, far from the grimy pavements she once crossed at speed to arrest armed robbers as a member of the Flying Squad. “It’s been the subject of academic books, I’ve been invited to go to America to talk about it on PBS,” Malton said. Prime Suspect, starring Helen Mirren as DCI Jane Tennison, the character based on Malton, would run for seven series between 19, win multiple Bafta and Emmy awards and be shown to acclaim around the world. Malton introduced La Plante to many of her colleagues, both men and women, and told her of her own grim experiences with the man who would become the notorious Sergeant Bill Otley in the drama. One part that did not ring true was what it was really like for a woman in a senior role in the police. ![]()
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