Constable Pollard

In the short story The Market Basing Mystery, Constable Pollard was the local policeman in the town of Market Basing. Pollard had met Inspector Japp while working on a case of arsenic poisoning. He had, at that time, been posted to a village not far from Market Basing. He was delighted to meet Japp when he, Poirot and Hastings decided to spend a relaxing weekend in his town. When a local resident Walter Protheroe was found dead under puzzling circumstances, Pollard decided to call on Japp for help.