it may be the oldest system emergency wise. But Bamber was a farmers boy from rural Essex. It's not being ridiculous he carried on the tradition of his mother father, other people in the locality of directly calling a police station
Your terminology is way off course. A "farmers boy" suggests nothing more than a labourer -one of those who, in past times of more deferential days, would doff their cap to the employer- Jeremy, public school educated, was the son of local gentry, and a MAGISTRATE, to boot. Do you not think it odd that such a person, with ties, through his position, to the police, wouldn't have done what other, lesser souls, would automatically do in an emergency.