I think the police are a major part of the glue that holds civilised life together. They're not highly paid.
“As soon as I landed at Malta I found that though I could go to Tunis I could not go away without being quarantined for ten days and if I remained in Malta I must stay a week.”
“My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried in small villages.”