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Sherlock Holmes Essay One of the most debatable aspects of Sherlock Holmes stories concerns his relationship with the police. His attitude is ambivalent which is similar to the publics view. Holmes doesn't have a great deal of time for the police in general. He thinks they are amateurs. However, he has a different attitude towards individual officers. What makes him successful as a crimefighter though in that he is willing to take the law into his own hands because his methods are more professional than theirs. Holmes's relationship with the police is not as you'd expect it to be. You would have thought that Holmes would call in or try and help the official police force but it is the total opposite of this. Holmes doesn't trust the official police force and he insulted when he is compared to them for example, in "The Speckled Band", Dr Grimsby Roylott describes him as,...

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