Friday, 2 April 2010

Hello, this is the Merc. We're not here to take your call at the moment...


We've had an interesting and very out-of-hours anonymous phone call.

Apparently, the caller was a police officer who wanted to get something off his chest about staffing levels.

Because he chose to call so late at night - deliberately, I guess - he ended up speaking to one of our answering machines.

His message was that when he looks around at the start of a shift he doesn't see enough bodies.

Story?

If anyone would like to help, I'll be reprising my quaint 'hush hush' thing. (See previous post).

Incidentally, I've been reading a handful of the bewildering number of anonymised police blogs recently.

Some of them are really pretty good and seem popular.

Well, that's an understatement.

Some of these people count their readers in the millions, get hundreds of feedback comments for each post and have publishing deals in the bag.

Have a look out for 'Inspector Gadget', 'PC Bloggs' or 'Which End Bites'.

Frankly, they stand out because they don't seem to hate the 'underclass' as some of their blogging colleagues seem to.

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