Fighting Monsters by Rebecca Bradley

Author:Rebecca Bradley [Bradley, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-02-14T16:00:00+00:00

Lee

Lee thought back to that incident room. The one DCI Summers ran. The DCI had the attention of the room. Lee had pulled at the stark collar of his uniform shirt. It was warm and there was no air in the room. It made concentration difficult but he was pleased to have been placed on this job.

He stopped tugging at his collar and tuned back in to the DCI. Summers was old school. He’d grown up with the job, joined when he was a nineteen-year-old lad, not long after PACE had been introduced, but tutored by those who had been brought up pre-PACE. The Police and Criminal Evidence Act, the rules that governed everything they did, from how they made arrests, searched people and interviewed them. All Summers wanted to do was catch the bad guys and he hated the rules with a passion. He walked a thin line but no one ever said he stepped over it. He worked hard and he got results. He also expected results from his staff.

He stood at the front of the room, bald head shining in the heat, shirt damp under his arms, but he looked unfazed by the discomfort of the weather.

‘Four kids died in Vanilla Jazz last night. Four. And it is not acceptable by any measure.’

The room of officers present, some detectives, some uniform officers whose attendance had been requested, all nodded their agreement.

‘You’re all here because the chief constable has agreed that we need a small task force to focus on this problem and you’ve been chosen to be that task force.’

There was a buzz of excitement around the room from the uniform officers present. Lee turned and grinned at his mate next to him, Rob from one of the other shifts who grinned back.

‘Okay, I get it, you’re stoked, but can we focus on why we’re here please and you can pat yourselves on the back later.’

The room went silent again and Summers eyeballed them.

‘The pathologist will start the PMs today but it looks like drug overdoses. We already have intel that Vanilla Jazz is the Talbots’ domain and it’s their drugs that go through there. We need to firm that intel up. We need evidence. We need to identify who deals within the club, who was dealing last night and we need to know who supplies to the dealers. So, I’m after the top tier. I want the Talbots. Speak to everyone who was in there last night and get statements. We’ll contact the source handling unit and get them to help us out. We also need to view the CCTV, see if we can ID any other witnesses or offenders and we will get to the bottom of this.’

Summers paused as a murmur of agreement went around the room.

‘These four kids were young, between the ages of seventeen and twenty-four years of age. Too young to die on a nightclub floor. Someone has to pay. And we will find them and bring them before a court.’

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