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Jack Culverhouse always had mixed feelings when he was asked to go to the Chief Constable’s office. It would almost always be bad news, but Culverhouse was eternally grateful that it was Charles Hawes who was Chief Constable and not anyone else.
Hawes knew what it was like to police on the front line and had been through Mildenheath CID himself, working in Jack’s position before him. Hawes let him get away with a lot more than anyone else would, and that wasn’t lost on him. The pair were united by a distrust — verging on hatred — of the elected Police and Crime Commissioner, Martin Cummings, who’d brought politics into policing far more than it had any right to be. They were also both inherently suspicious of Malcolm Pope, the man who headed up the CID department at the county’s polici
