Just caught up with this thread. Reminded of what is probably a 4th hand report! When I was (much) younger we had as neighbours a couple with children of the same age and school, so naturally became fairly friendly, if not bosom mates. He was a police officer, a detective. I’ll call them Jayne and Bob. One day in the evening my wife told me a story she had had from Jayne that day. It seems that Bob was on an observation the previous night and had to spend some of the time crouching behind some cover in an alleyway near the back of a suspect’s house. While he was there, shortly after pub clos