Body worn videos were there both to protect the officers and to keep records of incidents that were likely to escalate. People generally behaved themselves when they knew they were being filmed. Domestic violence was one of the situations that had a propensity to get out of control.

‘Part of it? The first part, or the second part?’

‘He turned it off after a brief chat. I get the impression from what I saw that some conversation occurred after the camera was switched off.’

‘Which officer was it? One of ours?’

‘PC Ben Jarvis.’

Imogen exhaled. Gary was right to be worried. Adrian already had a little history with Jarvis and this was hardly likely to build any bridges between them. Imogen was worried. Whenever she looked at Adrian at the moment, he had that look in his eye again. Dog with a bone. If he thought Jarvis had protected Corrigan in any way, he would kick off.

‘You watched it?’

‘Yep.’

‘Was it all by the book?’

Gary screwed his face up and shrugged. ‘Yes?’

The way the intonation in his voice went up several octaves indicated otherwise.

‘Shit.’

Adrian was determined to get Corrigan put away and his determination concerned Imogen. Several days in a row now he had already left when she had woken and he wasn’t sleeping at night. He was wired. She knew this was all going to go wrong. Adrian was a good police officer and his heart was always in the right place, but he struggled to enforce the law when it came up against his own personal code.

She had admired that about him at first, but then as time had gone on, she realised that it only led to more problems. From now on she had to rein him in, or he was going to do something stupid, maybe even get himself fired, or worse. She looked at the clock: it was lunchtime. If Adrian was looking for Jarvis, he probably went to the canteen. Time to do some damage control.

Imogen rushed to the canteen, with Gary following close behind. When she got there, she found Adrian and Jarvis standing unnaturally close to each other by one of the tables. Adrian was leaning in and saying something – it looked like a threat. She hurried over to them.

‘Adrian, I need you to come take a look at something.’

‘I’ll be there in a minute,’ he said, not taking his eyes off Jarvis.

‘You need to keep your partner under control, Imogen,’ PC Jarvis said, smiling at Imogen.

‘Why didn’t you bring Corrigan in when you went to that house call?’ Adrian snarled.

‘You saw the video; she said she made the call as a joke,’ Jarvis replied.

‘But she made the call. It’s your duty to investigate.’

‘She insisted she had done it to wind him up.’

‘And you accepted that? I mean, I know you did; I saw it.’