Possible Clues:

• Official advice given to employees
• Old officer to give a little extra to those who serve
• Sheriff's officer gives helpful advice to officers who help
• Bailiff making merry mainly on river
• Court official gives timely hint to workforce
• Court official has to give advice to employees
• Sheriff's officer means to reward employees
• Official needs inside information on the personnel
• Pat's tiff with the judge
• Court official, as an afterthought, introducing army into dispute