NZ Detectives

Teamwork (1x3)

Udgivelsesdato: Nov 22, 2010

Teamwork celebrates the team approach that enables the CIB to maximise their efforts. From the core team of detectives – each with a specific assignment – to the specialist teams within the police such as Profilers and Armed Offenders Squads, to the co-opting of the media into the team and ultimately, the public at large. We work as a team to create our luck by seeing a huge range of people. Interviewing a lot of people looking for the little thing, or the things that will break the investigation and give us the result. Detective Superintendent Rod Drew Operation Mist will go down in recent CIB history as one of the most baffling cases. When a sinister bunker is discovered in the bush, detectives find themselves on a most peculiar mission. ‘We didn't know who was involved, we didn't know the intent it was going to be used for. But we needed to make sure that no one was in immediate danger in the time we were doing these initial enquiries as well. So we had to deploy staff up there amongst the bush watching the bunker. Twenty four hours a day.’ Former Detective Sergeant Murray Porter It seemed that a kidnap was about to happen but detectives didn’t know who the target was, or where or when it would take place. In the end a hunble block of cheese would help lead the team to stopping the crime before it happened. Again it is the tiny details that must be considered. But with no leads the detectives investigating the case of south Auckland serial rapist Joseph Thompson were feeling the inevitable pressure. ‘Every rape that happened you felt like you’d failed the victim because you hadn’t caught the guy, he was still out there going.’ Former Detective Sergeant Dave Henwood Faced with a very sinister and elusive rapist, the detectives set up the Criminal Profiling Unit. This profiling created a suspect list and led to a ‘blooding’ phase that ultimately got the much-needed DNA hit on Joseph Thompson. The criminal profiling