"Officer Maori, what's the situation at the scene?" Misumi Mikoto, while slipping gloves onto her hands, asked the police officer who had arrived at the scene, a familiar face to her. Officer Maori had handled many of the UDI cases because of jurisdictional reasons.
"Someone called in a report of a body here, so we came over," Officer Maori said, his face filled with aversion to the hassle. A murder case meant another round of endless overtime for him, and for a non-career officer like him with no hope of further promotions, his biggest wish was simply to retire peacefully.
For a field officer like Officer Maori, who worked his way up from the bottom, reaching the rank of detective by forty was the limit, while those who passed the national civil service Type I exam started as detective assistant and could be promoted to detective after a three-month junior officer course and nine months of practical experience in a police station.
