Interview #71 | Jade Cameron Discusses Her Career as a Trainee Detective

British Murders with Stuart Blues

Stuart Blues

True Crime

4.7 • 699 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In this interview episode, I’m joined by former trainee detective Jade Cameron.

When Jade finally achieved her dream of becoming a detective, she discovered that the reality wasn’t quite as she'd imagined. Living the Dream: Confessions of a Trainee Detective offers a gripping and unfiltered look at the hidden realities of life as a detective in training.

With unflinching honesty, Jade pulls back the curtain on her journey within Thames Valley Police, exposing the camaraderie and conflicts, the pride and frustrations, the adrenaline-fuelled moments, and the thankless tasks.

Her powerful memoir will captivate, enlighten, and take you far beyond TV's glamour and heroics. Jade takes you on a journey that is eye-opening, deeply personal, and profoundly human, as she discovers what it truly means to live the dream.

Grab Jade's book on Amazon:

Living the Dream: Confessions of a Trainee Detective | Amazon UK

***This interview was recorded on July 31, 2025.

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0:00.0	You are now listening to British Murders, a true crime podcast hosted by Stuart Blues.
0:28.6	Okay, everyone, I am here with another interview episode, and this time I have Jade Cameron on the show.
0:34.1	And what we're going to do is somewhere a bit different to what you're used to.
0:38.5	We're going to get straight into this book that Jade has written about a time as a trainee detective. This book is called Living the Dream, which I'm going to
0:43.9	ask you first of all, is that kind of an ironic title because you kind of think is living the
0:49.9	dream, but perhaps it wasn't. Is that what it is? Yes, yes. It is definitely ironic.
0:56.7	However, it started out very unironic because when I first joined the police,
1:02.4	that was actually a dream come true for me and something that I worked towards for a very long time.
1:09.0	So in the beginning, it started out unironically, as this was my dream job,
1:14.1	and I was super excited to have it. And then there was another part to that title where a lot of the
1:20.0	time when in the police you went up to someone and you said, hey, how is it going? How are you?
1:26.5	They would say, living the dream. That was always like the standard response. So yeah, that's where the title
1:31.6	came from. Yeah, it's a very British saying that. People used to say it at my office job. And
1:37.1	it's such a British dry response. Good day, bad day, even if you have it the worst time ever,
2:01.6	living the dream. That's what it is. Yeah. So that was a very standard response to the police that you get a lot. And then it was also a bit of a moment of realization for me at some point when I was a bit at a low point doing my time in the police. And I went up to someone. I said, how are you? They said, living a dream.
2:07.4	And something sort of clicked on my head. And I was like, a second, this was actually my dream. But now it's become, you know, something, something sarcastic, something completely different.
2:13.7	So it was also a bit of a moment of realization at some point when someone said that to me.
2:18.7	Okay.
2:19.8	So this book, we're going on a tangent there, but this book, Living the Dream, Confessions of a Trawny Detective is the subtitle here.
2:27.6	Released, I'm looking on Amazon here that says, released in April.
2:30.9	Yourself published this, right?
2:32.9	Yeah, that's right.
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