David Gareth Bryon
Dorothy was a good friend and a great mentor to me from the time I met her in the Spring of 1996 at the John Jay College in NYC until her untimely death in July 2024. I was a young UK police Inspector in the US on a Fulbright Fellowship, and her interest in me and my visit was both sincere and so supportive.
On my return to the UK we became pen pals and collaborators, with great exchanges on the rise of women in policing and eventually writing together on transport policing.
Dorothy encouraged me to research and write articles for academe and journals and right up to her death we were still planning on writing together.
I was lucky enough to visit her home on New Years Eve at the end of 2023, where I met her husband David for the very first time and together with Dorothy, we all shared her memories in policing and academic life. Dorothy was an inspiration and a great fighter who bore her illness with great dignity. She is truly, truly missed.
