ABSTRACT
Variation in personal style is no doubt inevitable in all but the most repetitious work, perhaps augmented by the fact that there is no commonly accepted corpus of knowledge within the police service which informs officers' actions in the process of detection. The Wason-inspired body of work seems to be entirely absent from bibliographies on police detection. Correspondingly, crime detection does feature prominently among the real-world applications mooted in at least the literature of human reasoning of which the writers are aware. One can think of framing as relevant to many aspects of policing, not least the detection of crimes through detection of offenders in different crimes. The frames are thus different, with incalculable consequences for the detection enterprise. The large extent to which the perpetrators of serious crime are swiftly identifiable by dint of evidence which is at hand or comes readily to hand after routine police action.
