Tom Andrews

Tom Andrews is a Lecturer in Policing at the University of Derby. He specialises in the history of policing, especially relating Nottinghamshire.

His first book was 'The Greatest Policeman?: A biography of Capt Athelstan Popkess, Chief Constable of Nottingham City Police 1930 - 1959. In this, he argues that Popkess was almost single-handedly responsible for transforming the police service nationally from the Victorian era to the modern, mobile responsive model.

In 2022 he published his autobiography of his thirteen years as a front-line police officer in Nottingham - 'The Sharp End: Murder, Violence and Knife Crime on Nottingham's Thin Blue Line'.

As of 2021, he is the editor of the 'Journal of the Police History Society', an annual publication from that organisation that looks into different aspects from the entire history of policing in the UK and beyond.

He lives in Nottingham with his wife and two children.