It's not an activity favoured by the upper classes that the politicos and journos imagine themselves to be.
However, Helen pointed to the debacle that Beckett has been involved with. That is a good reason to dispute that she is a safe pair of hands.
In the case at hand, she's a "safe pair of hand" in that she'll do nothing of her own initiative, and that's exactly what Blair watns in the Foreign Office. guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper
