Ian Cherrington

And detectives, you know, this isn't just in what I've done, but detectives generally do hold a lot of responsibility and weight on their shoulders.

You know, I think it shouldn't be underestimated that, you know, generally what they have to do.

You carry on with your job and you're professional, but you still have to carry on.

in the back of your head, the potential risk that might happen because you have or haven't done something, you know.

Yeah.

It's a strange feeling.

Yeah.

And it is, I guess it's perfectly natural given what you're doing.

I think sometimes people with detectives, they focus on the fact that they're there to investigate.

But during an investigation, sometimes your suspect or the victim, anything can happen.

It's so unpredictable and unpredictable.

things happen all the time.

Yeah.

And you sort of, you balance all that risk, don't you?

Yeah, I think I said to you offline, so I moved to Australia, my partner's from Australia, so we moved to Australia.

We moved to like a,

Initially, we moved to like a beach town and I couldn't work in the first few months.

So, yeah, I was gone from being in the police to suddenly being in this most beautiful place like paradise.

Just, you know, wandering around just thinking, okay.

And what was really strange was struggling slightly to actually relax because I was so used to the pace of what I was doing before.