In the same way I was unable to do much else but grin and bear it when my then assistant chief constable (crime), Ken Oxford (later to be the chief constable of Merseyside) implicitly restated police concepts of correct bodily order, when he jokingly told a group of visiting journalists who had come to do a story on this wayward group of detectives, ‘ we pay him a plain clothes allowance you know’.
In the same way I was unable to do much else but be happy when my then assistant chief constable (crime), Ken Oxford (later to be the chief constable of Merseyside) implicitly restated police concepts of correct bodily order, when he jokingly told a group of visiting journalists who had come to do a story on this wayward group of detectives, ‘ we pay him a plain clothes allowance you know’.