The unnamed Police Inspector dealt with Ena Sharples on two occasions when she led a pensioners' protest against the closure of an OAP Clubhouse in April 1969. The first was when the group of twenty or so suddenly descended with banners on Weatherfield Town Hall just after he had commented to Constable Wilcox that it was "all quiet on the Western Front". He took fright and scarpered, telling a disbelieving Wilcox to get in touch with him should things get out of control. After Ena's presented petition failed, she instructed the protestors to sit down in the middle of the road, halting traffic for the next few hours. The Inspector returned with reinforcements and told Ena that he had half-a-dozen men dealing with the resulting jams and she suggested that he'd better go and give them a hand