Chapter Fifteen
Promotion Board
Don shifted uncomfortably in his seat and resisted the temptation to lean his elbow on the rim of the huge plant pot next to him. He was seated at one end of a row of four plastic chairs that had been placed in the wide corridor outside the assistant chief constable’s office.
These chairs were especially uncomfortable and were exclusively for the use of candidates waiting to appear before the promotion boards being held in the office opposite.
Don had been told that the ACC himself would be chairing the board, and he was to watch out for some surprises. Roger Selwyn, the assistant chief, was a recent acquisition by the Thames Valley and represented the so-called “new breed” of senior officers.
This new cadre of officers was almost entirely composed of u
