The Fugitive Detail

[image error]Fugitive apprehension was filler work for SPI/Metro.

The nature of our assignments was responsive. Someone was kidnapped, we’d go to work. A prisoner escaped, we started a manhunt. A judge is threatened, we’d set up around-the-clock protection while investigating the source. And so on.

As explained in last week’s article about the Special Investigations Bureau, Metro detail had absorbed the duties of the department’s fugitive detail. There were file cabinets full of arrest warrants to be serv...