Ron Sagar obituary
Senior police officer who wrote Hull, Hell and Fire about a series of fatal fires in the city during the late 1970s
My father, Ron Sagar, who has died aged 75 of cancer, joined the Hull City police force in 1956 and was promoted to detective sergeant in the summer of 1962 as the youngest CID man to reach that rank. He did not look like a policeman, so he was often given undercover roles, joining criminal gangs in the guise of a fraudster from the south of England. His task was to seek out conspiracies and to buy stolen property, including, on one occasion, a lorry-load of whisky, stolen in Glasgow and destined for Germany. He once bought £21m worth of cocaine from a Bolivian dealer as part of a sting operation.
A mixture of law, politics, autobiography and humour. Once described as "The Devilish Advocate" (Guardian), I do have the ability to provoke a response. Sometimes it comes from someone who uses a thought process, and sometimes from jerks usually associated with the knee.
Where's his stash?
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