On a dark and stormy night in the Essex coastal town of Frinton-on-Sea, someone, or something, is stirring in a beach hut. At least, that’s what Stephen Beardsley thinks, and, as the man who has been charged by hundreds of Frintonians to keep them safe in the absence of a permanent local police presence, he is duty-bound to investigate.
At the end of every shift, police officers call their loved ones to assure them that they “made it through another day without injury”. “From 2000 until 2014, over 700 officers were unable to make that call because they did not survive their tour of duty on that last day.”
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