Urgent Update

I recently passed my Chief Inspector in the corridor - YES THIS IS IN FACT NEWS!! Mainly because seeing the C/I out of an office environment 'mingling' with response officers is a seemingly wild and foolish idea that could lead to him/her doing something outside of meeting a local nutter who hates us for not finding his goldfish or having another performance meeting.

It was a bit like seeing a ghost, I acknowledged him, but was not on the same ethereal level to start contemplating what was on his mind. That day turned out to be a very odd one because I was asked by this very same C/I to take a statement for him!! Shock, horror! This was of course referred to me indirectly, the skipper told me he had asked him to 'get someone to do it' so he still didn't have to speak to any of us response PCs directly - C/Is obviously aren't that silly - so he upheld his respect and mysterious 'ambiance'.

I duly attended the small reports room and spoke at length with a young chap who told me how he had been 'dissed' in the street and how police hadn't yet even taken him seriously. I asked the young chap, I shall call him 'Yoof', as to the fact he had spoken to the C/I:

"Yeah he was a nice bloke, said he would have taken a statement but he was called to an urgent incident.
Oh really, I see, did he tell you what the incident was?
No, just said he was really busy otherwise he would have done it"

Oh, so that would explain why I saw the C/I fiddling with a set of golf clubs in the back of his car and pressing a mobile to his ear talking about his dinner. I see. Yoof continued talking, as they do, and I couldn't believe that when he cut someone up at a junction "Completely accidentally" someone had given him the beans and threatened to twonk him in the bonce. I nodded politely and couldn't believe I was sharing the same oxygen with him and agreed we would do 'everything we possibly could' - the grand sum of squat all.

I finished the statement but thought about what sort of fast food I could squeeze in before the next 999 call if any....