Something's Wrong

This month in Blandmore I have spent every night shift driving past the house of a man wanted for Grievous Bodily Harm on his girlfriend, to look for any signs of movement that could justify a door boshing. Strangely enough, by the third or fourth night, I was struck by a sense of deja vu... and not just because I'd driven past the house for three nights running. It occurred to me that I had carried out the same patrols back in October, for the same guy, and for the same offence. In a sudden panic that I might be looking for someone who had already been arrested, I did some computer checks.

It turned out that the offender - we'll call him Morris - was Blandmore's most-wanted for two months back in October, for Grievous Bodily Harm on the same girlfriend. After a coordinated CID, Area Intelligence and uniformed operation involving the kind of overtime figures that would give Jacqui Smith a hot flush, he was nicked in a hideout and put before the courts.

The next day he was back out with the instructions "Please try to turn up on your court date next time, Morris, there's a good chap." A day later he went round to his girlfriend's house and broke her jaw. Cue more overtime and another hot flush for the Home Secretary.

There's something wrong with this picture.

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