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DCI Jack Culverhouse’s briefings were legendary amongst those at Mildenheath CID. There was no predicting how they’d go or which format they’d take. It all depended on his mood.
The level of autonomy Culverhouse and his team were given was something they didn’t take for granted, but certainly made the most of.
The atmosphere was generally far more relaxed than in most major incident teams, although the pressure tended to be far greater. The whole team was acutely aware that they were only in existence because of their success rate. One slip-up — one failed case — and it’d give the force’s superiors the perfect reason to close down Mildenheath CID and subsume everything into county headquarters at Milton House.
It was almost completely unheard of for the same team to stick together fr
