Inspector Gadget, one of the best police bloggers, has gone mysteriously quiet, having posted a cryptic piece about a dog with ginger eyebrows. References: Gadget, Nightjack, Copper’s Blog.
Reading between the lines I have formed the conclusion that The Dog With Ginger Eyebrows is internal police code for some kind of sinister police-within-the-police organisation; the sort of thing that did for the World Weary Detective.
The police force is now divided into two camps, most senior police officers now being ‘fast-tracked’ into their jobs from a background in academic subjects such as criminology rather than rising from the beat, and more junior officers finding that they have, as it were, to be ‘Party members’, demonstrably loyal to modern doctrine, however counterproductive, before they can expect to be promoted.
That senior officers try to stop junior officers from telling the truth about what happens at the level of reality is, under the circumstances, regrettably predictable.
Gadget has, while I have been reading him, never uttered a word which could lead to the identification of Ruralshire Constabulary. He is what I would call a proper, old-fashioned policeman who starts from the basis of common sense and attempts to build up logically from there. Also, he writes very well.
If anything has happened to Gadget because of his blog then I shall be (a) deprived on my own account; (b) very sorry on his; (c) very angry indeed with his bosses, and (d) inclined to kick, smite, flog, belabour or otherwise to chastise all dogs with ginger eyebrows which I meet, on the basis of the doctrine of signatures.
