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Theo Curwood had started to develop a bit of a reputation for community policing, and he didn’t mind that one bit. Local business owners had come to rely on him as their point of contact with the police — something which was becoming more necessary every day after the recent spate of armed robberies in and around Mildenheath.
Although the free local crime prevention surveys and advice had been on offer for quite some time, there had been a marked increase in the number of businesses taking the police up on it. It seemed that more and more local business owners were keen to protect themselves from what had happened to Ian Gumbert, not to mention Elsie Fogg.
Local business networks were awash with rumours and scare stories, and the town’s Round Table group had recently approached Theo
