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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.

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'.

...i Don't Have Concrete Plans For The Future. I Just Think Of Success And Keep A Successful Attitude. Success Is 99 Percent Preparation. If You Set Yourself Up For Winning, Rarely Will You Fail.

What Brighton's Got Is A Major Sea Port On Either Side, Good For Importing Drugs, Great For Exporting Cash, Stolen Cars, Stolen Antiques. It's Got The Largest Number Of Antique Shops In The Uk, So It's A Great Place To Fence Stolen Goods. It's Got Tremendous Communication: You've Got The Sea Ports, You've Got The Channel Tunnel, You've Got Gatwick Airport 25 Minutes Away, And London's 50 Minutes Away By Train. So All These Escape Routes... Which Is What Villains Like.

Life's Not Some Slot Machine In An Arcade With A Sign That Flashes Up Saying 'i'm Sorry, You Have Been Killed. Would You Like Another Go?' But We Might Get Put Through The Same Test Each Time, Get Faced With The Same Situations Until We've Learned How To Cope.