Unexpected

I had to deal with the Police today. Not something I'm overly familiar with, thankfully.
They rang early and said they needed to see the manager about a particular matter, so I invited them in for an early afternoon chat. Nothing to worry about, it turns out, just a little disagreement between two individuals, one of whom happened to work here over the Summer and who has claimed to have been working here on certain dates, by way of an alibi. I'm not allowed to say any more than that, and in fact I probably shouldn't even have told you that much, but I think I'm on safe ground. It's not as if The Powers That Be have the ability to monitor absolutely everything that absolutely everyone puts on the internet and it's not as if they would stoop so low as to keep all that stuff linked in files about each of us and have algorithms that would flag up anything that might incriminate us as being guilty of anything minor or major... So I think I'm ok.
Anyway, the point is that they were very pleasant to deal with and seemed to have a real grasp on the world around them and a real passion for providing the public with a service they could be proud of, so that gave me a nice feeling for the rest of the day.

RC 19-10-23