Volume 1: First Arrival Chapter 24: Police Inspector
Someone from the General Investigation Department is here!
Not only is it coming, but it is coming so fast!
A little abnormal.
When Olivia showed her badge, Kirk took a quick glance:
Lieutenant.
His rank was not low enough to be the captain of a team, which was even more abnormal.
In the New York Police Department, police ranks can be divided into three levels with a total of twelve grades. Promotion requires military merit and recommendation, in addition to which professional examinations must be passed.
The first level, grassroots police, includes three grades.
Police officer, detective, sheriff.
Among them, police officers (P olice-Office) and detectives (Detective) are at the same level, just with different displayed positions. However, their salaries are different. The salary of detectives is obviously one level higher, and their responsibilities are also different.
As for the sheriffs, there are more than 4,500 of them in New York. They can be regarded as the leaders of the charging teams, fighting on the front lines, connecting the upper and lower levels, and forming the backbone of the entire police organization.
The second level, police officers, includes four grades.
Police Inspector, Police Captain, Deputy-Captain, Senior Police Inspector.
Generally speaking, the highest leader of a branch is at this level. A police inspector is already able to lead a department, and even some small divisions with a small number of people have the police inspector as the highest leader.
In daily life, the highest-ranking police officers people may encounter when on duty or in field missions are within this range.
The third level, senior police officers, includes five grades.
Deputy-Chief, Assistant-Chief, Chief-of-Bureau/Deputy-Commissioner, Chief-of-Department, Commissioner.
When one reaches this level, one is mainly a senior leader. What they lead is not a branch but a department, such as the entire Investigation Bureau or the entire Patrol Service Bureau.
To give a simple example, the highest leader of a branch is the deputy senior police inspector, the highest leader of the General Investigation Department is the senior police inspector, and the highest leaders of the Patrol Service Bureau and the Investigation Bureau are both the directors.
Police inspectors belong to the management level, but are slightly inferior to police superintendents. They often go out on police missions and are active on the front lines. The difference is that they are more responsible for command and controlling the overall situation.
The Olivia in front of him was not the sheriff, but the inspector.
Kirk speculated that there should be nothing fishy about the case itself. The victim did not look like a criminal boss or an informant, and there were no more secrets hidden behind the case.
Then, the biggest possibility is that there is a backlog of Easter cases, and different teams and members have all been mobilized, just like Adrian who already has multiple cases on hand, and now the police inspector has to take action himself.
But it has nothing to do with Kirk.
Kirk's "work" has been completed, and now he is going to be a nobody, and maybe even witness a fierce battle between the Special Investigations Department and the General Investigations Department.
However!
"What's going on?" Olivia looked at Kirk accurately.
Kirk: Where are the spectators?
Then Kirk noticed Olivia's gaze, probably because he noticed the police badge on his waist, so he asked for his opinion.
The play has come to this point and must continue.
"Inspector Cooper."
"I'm a detective from the Special Investigations Division. We were notified by the 911 dispatch center to handle a malicious wounding incident."
"When we arrived at the scene, the victim had no vital signs. After a brief conversation with the witness, we found the murder weapon in a box in the display cabinet. The suspect tried to flee the scene, but was detained immediately. Now we are waiting for the Crime Scene Division to come and collect evidence, and then we can close the case."
Be concise and clear in your thinking.
In just a few words, Kirk had sorted out all the circumstances; moreover, he did not take credit for it and described the whole story as objectively as possible.
In addition, there are two more details.
First, Kirk did not ask why the General Investigation Division was here.
Second, Kirk did not introduce himself.
Everything is hidden silently in words, removing oneself from this incident and avoiding unnecessary trouble as much as possible.
Olivia, however, keenly caught the details and turned to look at Kirk.
This was the first time she looked directly at the detective after arriving at the scene. When their eyes met, she could immediately see Olivia 's blue-gray eyes, calm and deep, as if looking up at the starry sky. Her capable and clear gaze was projected over without any hindrance, so that the other party subconsciously wanted to avoid it.
Experience, momentum.
You can tell at first glance that this is a look that has been honed through countless cases. When facing criminals, he can always break through the other party's psychological defenses.
But, it was fleeting.
The halo quietly disappeared, his eyes returned to calmness, his expression was unperturbed, and he looked ordinary. This was his usual poker face.
Everything happened so fast that Olivia completed her initial inspection and exploration before Kirk even avoided her gaze or reacted. The tiny details showed her intuition and attitude honed by her vast on-site experience. Then, she raised her eyebrows slightly and grasped a key point.
"Inspector?"
Although it was just a brief encounter, Olivia captured the details keenly.
One of them is "Police Inspector". She did not introduce her police rank. When ordinary policemen saw her, they often called her detective and even did not think she could become police chief.
After all, it is not easy for a woman to climb to a high position in the police system. Perhaps a civilian position is relatively more likely, but it may be even more difficult to get practical work.
But Olivia doesn't often introduce herself as a police inspector, which gives the other party an illusion and makes them underestimate her. This can bring unexpected results in the process of investigating cases. What's more, she doesn't need a police rank to prove her ability. She has enough confidence in this.
The second is eye contact. When meeting ordinary people, including police officers and people involved in crimes, strangers often feel uncomfortable or embarrassed when looking at each other. They will either get angry, avoid the conversation, or change the subject. The emotional reaction is very intuitive.
However, the person in front of him did not.
Not only that, but he also looked at it carefully.
Olivia thought it was interesting.
In life, people always say that first impressions are often stereotyped, biased, and narrow. This is true because a short meeting does not give enough time to get to know someone in depth. But at the same time, Olivia also believes that a stranger's first impression is not covered up, hypocritical, or masked, and can reveal more of the truth.
At least, that's how it works when it comes to solving crimes.
Therefore, Olivia always attaches great importance to first impressions.
Kirk immediately realized that in the fiercely competitive New York, the fact that the woman in front of him could become a police inspector was definitely not luck or nepotism.
But Kirk didn't seem to panic. He showed an honest smile and said, "Didn't you just show your police badge? If I saw it wrong, I'm sorry."
Olivia had some experience, and it was just a routine demonstration. "Ordinary people tend to only confirm the police badge, and they don't even confirm whether it's real or fake, let alone confirm the details."
Kirk patted the "badge" on his waist, "But I'm not an ordinary person, right?"
"Ha!" Olivia laughed heartily. She liked the answer from the police officer in front of her.
Olivia couldn't help but look at Kirk again. "So, what exactly happened just now? The witness pointed out the suspect, but the suspect knew there was a witness but still stayed at the scene and didn't run away?"
There is a contradiction between the two.
The suspect remained at the scene and did not flee because there were no eyewitnesses who witnessed the entire crime process, so there was no testimony, and the suspect did not cause panic. Otherwise, if the suspect was caught red-handed, there would be no need for the Investigation Bureau to make a trip.
But just now, the detective in front of me said that after talking to witnesses, the murder weapon was found and the suspect was successfully alerted.
There is no connection between the front and the back.
Olivia keenly grasped the key point of this seemingly ordinary and fluent speech, and once again proved her ability with practical actions.
