Quote Originally Posted by Cyncoed Slumdog View Post
I'm relieved to read that because I think it's dreadful. Wooden acting, Dunbar using phrases that an Irish farmhand might use (my wife is irish) and does anybody actually think the police use expressions like chis, rather than informant or one of the other every day expressions meaning the same thing!
Well , in answer to your last point yes actually.

There a document from Cambridgeshire constabulary freely available on the net which says as its 1st paragraph

"We recognise that in policing, we tend to use many acronyms and other jargon terms. To make this easier for you to understand, we have made a jargon buster to help you identify some of our language."

There follows a long list in Alphabetical order of such jargon one of which is......

CHIS Covert Human Intelligence Source

And Dunbar said he uses' Mother of God' and others because his father used to use them. Other phrases are Belfast phrases that he knows and uses. Some are from Q and A sessions wth Belfast audiences. He is of course Irish himself ( from Enniskillen) so he should know!!!!!