The story depicts Surrey Police as resistant and resentful of a Metropolitan officer suddenly presenting a new theory about a case that they had been working on for several years

"Last year, former Detective Chief Inspector Colin Sutton, who led the Levi Bellfield case, was furious to learn that Ms Richards had exaggerated her part in the investigation of Milly’s killer.

Ms Richards’s forthcoming book, Profiling A Killer, depicted her at the centre of the inquiry and Mr Sutton ‘hit the roof’, according to a former colleague.

‘He wrote to the publishers telling them it was a ‘gross misrepresentation’ and she had overstated her role,’ he said. Penguin Random House said the book was due to be released last June, but that has been postponed until March next year.

It is not known if this is because of Mr Sutton’s complaints."

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hedda wrote:
The story depicts Surrey Police as resistant and resentful of a Metropolitan officer suddenly presenting a new theory about a case that they had been working on for several years
It would be interesting to know what relations are like between police forces, e.g. whether they tend to see each other as competitors rather than as allies.

I think a very salient point :

"‘He wrote to the publishers telling them it was a ‘gross misrepresentation’ and she had overstated her role"

I can't recall who it was but isn't there another high-profile ex-copper who did the same about some dead disc jockey and even our host?

The Manhunt series did touch upon an inferiority-superiority thing going on between the two forces that probably goes deeper than the "city-slickers" and "carrots" jocularity. It took Colin Sutton two attempts (with six months of silence in-between) to 'sell' Bellfield as a suspect in Milly's murder. His second attempt was made just after Maria Woodall took over as senior investigating officer.