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Martins had her seatbelt off and the door at her side open before the car had come to a stop outside of Oakhurst’s police station. The moment the car ceased moving she was out and heading for the double doors at the top of the steps. She was stopped before she could get there, though.
“You’d better let us check the place out first, ma’am,” Sergeant Ince, who was in charge of the armed response team, said, putting an arm out to keep the inspector from getting too close to the building.
His team were already out of their van and taking up positions that would allow them to cover as much of the building as possible and assess the situation inside.
The first part was easy since the building was separate from those that surrounded it, and the land on which it sat gave full access to ever
