April Blog

This month was filled with fighting, arguments, deals, and reconciliation. Over the past few months, the new detective the Unit had hired was progressively getting more and more out of hand. They had at one point refused to pass a message from a federal agent to the sergeant who led the Unit. After a previous controversy surrounding a detective who tried to incriminate the other detectives and was abusing overtime, the controversy going so far as to bring in internal affairs and an investigation into the unit and to consider disbanding the team and integrating it's remaining eligible members into lower units, there was little patience or forgiveness in the team for this new unknown member. But the straw that broke the camels back was when this detective had thrown a tantrum over not being included in a small scale bugging. They had left work early, again after multiple times, the sergeant had lost his patience and instead of giving the detective another chance, they brought in my mentor and another senior, and sat down for a talk with the new one. The talk included that they had not been acting like part of a team, but as an individual, how unacceptable that was for this line of work, and that with all that they had done, the sergeant suggested that they should consider leaving the unit for another line of work. It seemed that the new detective had never worked in such a team, that they didn't have the experience of working together, or even the experience that my mentor did when they first joined. during this intervention, I was not there, and received the information from my mentor about the aftermath. The event was reconciled by an admittance of guilt by the new detective and that they had not been a part of such a small team, and did not have the same teaching or experience that they did. My mentor and the sergeant had accepted their reasoning and gave them a final warning stating that they needed to work with the team, and if they had to stay late or if they had to do more work for it, then that's what was necessary. Overall, the situation these past months, especially April has been extremely strenuous on the teams bond, however, hopefully they can overcome this and go back to being a close team.