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The Major Crime incident room, now temporarily established in the General Duties muster room, was crowded. Cameron Yap Yap Barker had called every officer involved in the investigation back to the station for a hasty meeting. The officers present, a combination of General Duties uniformed officers and plainclothes detectives, talked quietly amongst themselves, waiting for the meeting to begin.
Cameron Barker sat on the edge of a desk at the front of the room and looked at the mass of police officers before him. The sound of perhaps forty or fifty voices all talking at once filled the room. Barker stood, moved a few paces to his right, and called for quiet. “Okay, okay! I need your attention. A few minutes quiet, please!”
He waited as the sound of multiple voices decreased rapidly and
