Hints and tips:
...The city had violently stripped and digested her and kept her here in its bowels....
...It’s called Department 312. And its role is to kill opponents of the regime abroad. There’s not much public information about Department 312. But what we do know, its pretty terrifying....
...That she’s of the north, we’re seemingly meant to infer, is a defect mitigated by her particular north being this former fisherman’s village....
...Leah Duffin is a retired murder detective with London’s Metropolitan Police. You must be good at reading people’s characters, I say to Leah at the first of our huge and hearty dinners....
...He went on to become a detective in the criminal investigation department, receiving multiple commendations for leadership and bravery....
...In areas where there is little trust in the police, gangs step into the role of community enforcers “because they get things done quickly”....
...He has since distanced himself from the remark, saying he plans to hire additional detectives to improve solve rates and will leave the police department’s budget unchanged....
...We saw the front page of City A.M., you know, rabbit missing. Is there a reason for that?...
...That evening, she confessed what she had done, and the next day she was driven four hours north to Thornycroft Hall, a retreat centre two miles from the nearest dwelling. Teena hit rock bottom....
...A good example would be Detective Constable Colin Saysell. If the BTP is the Gotham City Police Department, and Turner is Commissioner Gordon, Colin Saysell is Batman....
...“And that’s when I got a call from the police.” Detectives from the Rhode Island State Police told Healey that they thought Nicholas had faked his death and was passing himself off as Louise....
...“This is just the beginning,” said Brown. “It’s like when we have been throwing rocks at their house, and we finally got someone to look out the window.”...
...On my first trip north out of the city that October, I was staggered to see huge road signs reading “Don’t drive high”, an advisory that to me would feel so redundant in genteel Britain it might as well...
...She’s a floater, which means she moves from department to department to fill in where people need help....
...The department can also sue the police force to demand changes, leading to the type of legal settlement that has been shown to reduce police violence in other cities including Seattle and Detroit....
...It also offered some redemption for the US Department of Justice after its earlier fumbling of the Epstein case....
...While Q branch now has more women than men at senior levels, they are under-represented in the department as a whole....
...The biggest impact of the escalating violence is felt beyond the big cities, in wide swaths of the north and north-east, near China, in the west next to India, and in the troubled south-east and eastern...
...The driver called the police and, shortly after, two officers entered the bus and arrested Parks. The fuse in Montgomery had been lit....
...“Otherwise, you can take it to Puerto Ordaz [a city north of Canaima] and get it melted down and turned into a little ingot. Then you can sell it for more.”...
...The Survivors (Little, Brown, £14.99) has a new locale: no longer a scrubby outback but the Tasmanian coastal town of Evelyn Bay....
...It took nearly five years, for example, for the New York City Police Department to fire Daniel Pantaleo, the officer who killed Eric Garner in 2014 after applying an aggressive chokehold that caused an asthma...
...What are the police doing? Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department, which has 3,800 officers in the capital and has deployed throughout the city, reports to mayor Muriel Bowser....
...This so-called ringfencing means that choices are limited and other spending departments bear a disproportionate level of cuts....
...The Department of Sensitive Crimes , by Alexander McCall Smith, Little, Brown, RRP£18.99, 240 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe....
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