He initially wrote about his passion for gardening, but he found that his references to his working life in the police attracted far more interest and so he switched to commenting on law and order issues.
PC David Copperfield has the answer ... they're all inside the station, writing reports, photocopying, stapling and filing – when they're not getting caught up in the petty squabbles of the underclass.
But honest taxpayers, sick of being fleeced while criminals rule our streets, will relish every word.His writing revealed the amount of time that police were taking to deal with relatively petty crimes.
The book was serialised in the Daily Mail, the sister publication of the paper that had earlier printed his material without permission, and Copperfield found himself in great demand from other newspapers and media outlets.
On Jon Gaunt's national Talksport network radio show – where he appeared twice – he said: "I'm just an ordinary copper who wrote a funny book about what it's like in the police now."
However, when Labour Minister of State for Police Tony McNulty MP discussed the book on the floor of the House of Commons in late 2006, he attempted to dismiss it, describing it as "more of a fiction than Dickens".
but in the spring of 2007 Copperfield – accompanied by his editor from Monday Books – met producers from BBC Television's current affairs programme Panorama to discuss the revelation of his identity on an episode broadcast on 17 September 2007.