Just because he is retired shouldn't mean life stops and if he had seen me about retirement planning dctyke, maybe he wouldn't
have to be supplementing his income?
He'll have an idea how a wintery and hacked off bobby will be thinking at most 04:30's and there will be some respect going the other way too I imagine. And he'll be able to join the dots when things need to be done.
I posted here about this the other week. You need to see the Labour candidate; "Chief Constable. I have called you before me because I'm really rather not not as happy as I might otherwise possibly need to be with the Force fitness test results".
(sorry, did I really just mention fitness tests?)