When I was serving in Ulster, I was approached by a Senior Member of the RMP SIB and asked to join.

BUT, But, but…I’d done something extremely stupid beforehand and had to decline :o(

Although an SIB appears to have existed in the British Army of the Rhine in Germany between 1919 and 1926, the origins of the army’s SIB are in 1940, when twenty Scotland Yard detectives were enlisted in the Corps of Military Police to deal with the pilfering of military stores within the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in France.^[1] The unit was formed on the recommendations of Detective Chief Inspector George Hatherill (who later went on to investigate the serial killers John Reginald Christie and John George Haigh, and the Great Train Robbery) and command was given to Detective Superintendent Clarence Campion, head of Scotland Yard’s Criminal Record Office, who was commissioned as a Major. Campion was hit in the head by shrapnel during the Dunkirk evacuation and died on 20 May 1940, the only SIB casualty of the BEF. After this beginning, the SIB was established on a full-time basis. One of the first group of detectives, Frank Elliott, was sent out to Cairo, Egypt. Under the supervision of Colonel Claude Harper, Elliott managed a 500-man force which investigated crime in Egypt, Palestine and later Libya.^[2]

The SIB (RMP) now consists of about three hundred personnel, including Scenes of Crime Officers and forensic technicians. It is divided into numbered units called Investigation Platoons (for instance, 33 Inv Pl SIB Regt), which are subdivided into Detachments, each usually commanded by a Warrant Officer Class 2. There is a section or detachment on most major British Army stations. There is also a Territorial Army section, made up of CID officers and ex-regular SIB. The Headquarters SIB Regiment is at Campion Lines at Bulford, Wiltshire. Within the RMP, SIB is known as “the Branch” or more commonly “the Feds”.

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What had I done? A heinous crime?

M’eh.

I’d got engaged to another RMP a few months before and we were to be married a few months later.

After living with a father who’d been both CID and SB, I kinda knew the life that would be ahead. And it was not compatible with family. Which I also knew through IRL experience!!!!!

BUT : I’ve never lost the thrill of the chase.

Hunt a Killer is so heavily advertised that I’m thinking of blowing a whole week’s food budget on a sub.

To be honest – I have little time to spare and that has been wasted watching yt Trooth Channels and bitching back at bitches for far too long. Too easy. FAR too boring. I need a new challenge.

Will she, Won’t she, Can she ?

I’m so tempted :o)