UK-PC

It's just the one swan actually.

1000% yes. I love that film. I may even put it on later..

I know a colleague who shouted "DETAINED MOTHER****ER" once. We've got the body worn video footage saved for when we need cheering up.

I have to say, it can be really difficult, because 99% of the time, your fitness is irrelevant. So much time is spent doing paperwork and investigating stuff, and even most of the people we arrest come quietly. Very rarely do you actually have to run or fight. There's also a lot of roles that are office based, and away from the front line, so setting an appropriate fitness test isn't straightforward either.

Working shifts and not getting a lot of downtime also means it's very easy to get out of the habit of exercise, and into the habit of picking up fast food and not eating healthily, which makes it all too easily to get out of shape. I'll hold my hands up and say I'm not as fit as I probably should be.

Problem is, of course, that that 1% of the time, your fitness could be the difference between getting hurt and not.

Every cop should do their best to maintain their fitness, it's their responsibility, but personally I think we aren't given enough help. In some roles you're given access to gyms, and time to use them, but that's very rare. My station has a gym but it's woefully under equipped and we have to pay to use it. The fire station down the road on the other hand has one of the best gyms I've ever seen, the fire fighters have time in their shifts to use it, and they get the opportunity to eat better, which I think makes a big difference.

I took part in the arrest of a guy for murder once. He'd brutally murdered a young girl, a complete stranger to him. When we arrived to arrest him, he was sat in the dark, waiting for us, as if he was relieved. I couldn't pinpoint any particular thing about him, but his whole demeanour gave me the creeps. He made me uncomfortable but at the same time he fascinated me. What makes a human being do something like that.

I've also done a lot of search warrants for sex offenders, and it goes without saying that some of them are incredibly weird.