Only A Game

After a wonderful drive off the tee with the aim of redeeming his game and more importantly in the eyes of his companions, his pride, the golfer and his associates watched the ball disappear over the rise at 200 meters. Suddenly the foursome stood speechless as the ball shot straight up into the air then arced into the rough.

The sight of the ball acting in this manner had puzzled them. They congratulated the golfer on the distance he had achieved as they mounted their carts and barrelled down the path to the rise. Coming to an abrupt stop at the base of the rise, they climbed out and quickly headed toward the shallow dip at the base of the rise where they believed the ball had completed its unusual acrobatic feat.

As the group leader came closer, his demeanour suddenly changed to one of disbelief. When his associates joined him, they saw the body of a prominent politician lying there dressed in eveningwear with a little round imprint of a golf ball on his white jacket. They all breathed a sigh of relief that they weren’t responsible when they noticed the neat bullet hole between the man’s eyes.

The question bothering DCI Radey as she listened to the foursome recount their exploits leading to the body’s discovery was “How a dead man could lay undiscovered on a well-used golf course for so long?” This was further compounded, for as DCI Radey and her team gathered evidence, they increased the body count by two.

It was then she sighed heavily knowing this would not be an easy case. DCI Radey’s fears were well founded as she discovered that members of the club were part of an ongoing investigation into financial and corporate miss-management being investigated by colleagues DCI Barnet of Asset Recovery and Superintendent Blacknall of the Criminal Finance Team.

As the investigations progressed, converging and diverging, they were all appreciative of Commissioner Harper and DCI Bryant’s connections and knowledge that enabled the team to start breaking down the barriers erected by various entities and institutions of both local councils and high government departments.

Nevertheless, for Commissioner Harper and DCI Bryant, this was but one intrigue. Adding to their repertoire of convoluted cases was the hijacking and robbery of five-armoured bank trucks all at the same time but at different locations. The feat seemed to require the utmost coordination of a large number of people, encouraging him to think it should be quick to clear this one up!

“But no such luck” the Commissioner thought as he called in the expertise of Superintendent Mark’s ECrime team after preliminary investigations revealed that the trucks had been hijacked using electronic means. It was obvious the robbery had taken place with great precision but without the number of potentially weak links, his investigation team were expecting to lean on to clear it up.

When the evidence was presented to Commissioner Harper he thought, “What is happening to good old crime for good old policing?” Just when he and DCI Bryant thought the case could not get more convoluted, the military appeared on the scene when the empty hijacked bank trucks are located in a military Cold War bunker.

As the two high profile cases progressed, it was not the control of a highly visible, large and diverse department taxing Commissioner Harper and DCI Bryant’s abilities; it was their proficiency to stay detached from the day-to-day operations.