His phone will surely ring again, come January, but hopefully he won't be tasked to go for a hat-trick.
Each year they provide up to 3,000 patrol days as part of the coast watch-managed national surveillance effort and in the event of war would be tasked to control the waters close to the Australian mainland.
Another abuser is on the run from an arrest warrant but has been signed off work: could the local police be tasked to keep passing by his workplace so that when he's next in, he can be picked up?
Often, entire departments will be tasked to solve one legal problem, and it's vital for a lawyer to draw on all the expertise and talent available and bring the best out of whoever they're working with.
Mr Grieve said his party's planned, elected police commissioners would be tasked to ensure that people were encouraged to stand up to anti-social behaviour and pledged to use the Home Office to stop people being deterred for standing up for traditional good behaviour.
"The BBC should be tasked to deliver, not everything to everybody, but something great to everybody," he wrote, adding, "Of course Sunday's Baftas matter to the BBC, but I want to make sure that we are winning Baftas in five years' time".
