Top reasons to join the police force. Number 17 will shock you.

OK, that heading is a poor attempt at click bait shlock.

But if you thought you could convince young people to join the police force by tickling their sense of community service, their desire to be helpful, their wish to protect weak members of the community, their solemn keenness for fairness in society, and for wanting to make up for the wrongs committed by other people, the police force itself does not list any of those in its recruitment drive. Join us, they say, because our uniform is cool. It could be an advert for Hooters.

What hope dare we have?