101 Conversations in Intermediate English

45. The robbery at the jewellery shop

Laura and Natalie leave King’s Cross to take the woman in the red scarf to the police station. On the way, they call Peter to find out more from him about the robbery at the police station.

Laura: Peter, how’s it going?

Peter: Good, we recently handed over the thieves to the police squad to take to the station. However…

Laura: What? What’s happened?

Peter: Well it took me a while to get the police squad to help me. In the beginning, they told me the jewellery shop wasn’t on their beat today… Until I told them that it would be their fault if the jewellery shop got robbed. Then they started to be more helpful.

Laura: Ok, that’s strange. Do you know what? It’ll be better not to take them to the central police station. Better to take them to the local police station. Is that ok?

Peter: Understood.

Laura: And then go straight to Brixton, we have to stop this drug deal.