One minute you could be called out, someone's budgie has escaped and is flying around the living-room. The next minute you could be called out to a sudden death. You'd never have to deal with things like that in Crossmaglen. You know, they'd never get the type of calls we get' . This influences the expectations that the public in Easton have of the police, and of their role in the community - a point which one constable made by explaining that one resident in Easton, upon finding himself locked out of his home, called at the station asking for the duplicate set of keys to his house which he thought the police would routinely possess for the residents' benefit; phone calls from the public asking for air and train information also sometimes occur. Therefore, the opinion ordinary law-abiding residents in Easton have of the police is