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One of the perks of being the Senior Investigating Officer in CID was that overtime requests tended to get accepted more often than not. The county’s Police and Crime Commissioner, Martin Cummings, had made serious and violent crime his main priority since being elected to his position. As far as Jack Culverhouse was concerned, that was the one good thing the PCC had done. He knew the time would come when overtime would be denied, as it had in the past. But that didn’t bother him — he did it for the distraction rather than the money.
Besides which, he had work to do. Not work in the conventional sense, but work of his own.
He loaded up the familiar interface of the Police National Computer and went into the nominals database. He moved his mouse cursor over the text box and clicked, w
