Chat to them over a well-earned martini and many council chiefs will jokingly compare their role to that of a James Bond-style spy.
Local government bosses would cite a lifetime of dedicated public service spent running around tackling a succession of fast-escalating crises, now often involving over-ambitious politicians and high-tech security threats such as cybercrime.
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