In 1965, Norwell Roberts was reading the Daily Mirror in his lunchbreak when he saw an advert from the Metropolitan Police – ‘London needs more policemen’.
Roberts, aged 17, applied. His grandfather had been a policeman back in Anguilla, a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean, near Antigua, where Roberts was born.
He was turned down, but then in 1967, the Home Office invited him to reapply.
