I think the police are a major part of the glue that holds civilised life together. They're not highly paid.
Police do get obsessed with solving crimes. You know, particularly if there's been a murder, it becomes personal for the police officer very quickly, and it gets to the family. Even after they've retired, they carry on, not letting go.
There's a really classic cliche every time you switch the TV on - you see cops arguing. I have spent a day a week for many years in the presence of police and I have never seen them argue. It's a military hierarchy. They do what they're told. There's no bickering.
Most good police officers are very open-minded. The bad ones are the ones who are close-minded.
I guess a lot of police keep their sanity by developing black humour.
The biggest qualification to be a good police officer is to have a high degree of emotional intelligence.
Every profession has its own culture, but the police look at the world differently to everybody else. I call it a 'healthy culture of suspicion'.
