Compared with Northern Ireland's coppers, who struggle to overcome a reputation for Protestant partisanship, English and Welsh officers tend tobe given the benefit of the doubt.
The policemen two Catholic, two Protestant were hurrying through heavy rain to help colleagues arrest a driver thought tobe drunk when their car hit a wall and burst into flames.
Kaspar is a likeable moderate who gets on well with his Protestant and Orthodox colleagues and will now either have tobe given the top job in his department or shunted into another important Vatican post.