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F: Would you please describe your feelings towards criminals?
M: It is true to say there are criminals, certain types of criminals who policemen have... er... I have to be very careful with what I say.
F: Uhum.
M: You see, I know a...a person who has been caught so many times that he’s... he becomes part and parcel of the station.
F: Umm. He has been brought in all the time.
M: He’s always in and he’s a cheerful sort of character. And it’s his way of life, and this sort of people that you... well, I say haye an affinity with, that’s not the right word to use, but you have a closeness with, you know.
F: They are part of your work, aren’t they?
M: You know, Old Sam is always in, and you can always guarantee that Old Fred will do something stupid about a week before Christmas so that he can spend Christmas in a certain prison.
F: Which he likes.
M: Which he likes because he has a good Christmas. Then, of course, you go to the other end of the scale where you have a hard-core minority who are the professional criminals.
F: British policemen are not armed, that is they do not carry guns. How do policemen feel about this?
M: I don’t think the average policeman really thinks about it, you know. I honestly think he does not think about it at all. I am sure if he did, he would probably be a worried man.
F: Uhum.
M: The reason I say that is this. That the average policeman in this country feels that the average Englishman is such a person that the use of arms and that sort of thing is foreign to his nature.
F: So your impression is that England is not a violent society
M: Well, I don’t think we are a violent people. You see, I think as a nation, if can put it that way, we love compromise, you know?
F: Okay...