This is the next RCMP Police story.
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Police Blotter 25
comedy
chapter 1
The return of Corporal Chris Hines of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to the Integrated Homicide Division had began with a running start. The work had just hit the ground running.
Earlier that morning, he looked through the mail sitting on kitchen table which his wife had left, amongst the pile of letters was a small recipe book. The title of it was Canada Cooks, but the title font was peculiar in that it was a basic handwriting scratch scrawl style and the second o of the word Cooks in the title, done in an organic type scrawl in which the o written quickly with the loop not having bothered to be completed looked more like the letter c. As a result, the writing on the cover looked more like Canada Cocks than Canada Cooks. The error was quite blatant and as a result, he threw the book into the garbage can in disgust.
At the station, the case that he got assigned to had to do with three voices recorded in a room, two sets of footprints and a pit bull. Why only two sets of footprints for two voices?
chapter 2
Ten years ago, a bank robber was trying to rob a bank. When he ran outside the bank, RCMP were already there and had surrounded the building.
The Police had all kinds of weapons with them. There were four different cops and on this day, all of them were carrying different weapons. One cop had a .38 snub nosed. One cop had a pump action rifle. One RCMP Officer had a taser and another had an ARWEN gun. The ARWEN is a less than lethal option in addtion to the taser. It fires five rounds of either wood, foam or tear gas canisters. The ARWEN stands for Anti Riot Weapon ENfield and was invented by the British Royal Small Arms Factory RSAF, in 1977.
On this occasion a wooden canister was used. It struck the bank robber damaging his second and third disc on the cervical section of the vertebrae, one of the many sections of the vertebrae including the lumbar, thoracic, etc.
ARWEN gun.
As a result, the bank robber had to wear a David Lynchian looking device called a halo vest for the rest of his life. A life that would end most unspectacularly.
Halo vest.
chapter three
In the years that followed, the bank robber Jeff Stearns served seven years and was then released. Due to a rich medical settlement that he got ironically, from suing the Police and getting generous damages from the court, he hired someone to carry him around like how the last Prince of Russia was always had a guy dressed like a sailor carry him around. The guy who carried the halo vested Jeff Stearns around was named Mr. Roberts.
The settlement that he got from the Police was ironic because he generated this money into getting vengeance on the Police. A few years after the robbery, he traced the badge number and then address of one of the RCMP who shot at him that bank robbery day. He had a gun and with him and also a pit bull. It was a strange sight. A 6' 2" tall muscular man carrying around a man wearing a halo vest. And the man wearing the halo vest holding a leash in his hand that connected to a pit bull.
The gun that Jeff Stearns had was an expensive Glock.
The muscular man kicked open the door of the apartment that one of the RCMP Officers lived in. Quite a feat of balance since he had to stand on one leg long enough to kick and all this while holding a man wearing a halo vest who was holding a dog on a leash.
Sometimes the RCMP Officer, Constable David Beaver, while working undercover would befriend criminals and bring them to his apartment and over a good supportive talk like a street friend and a few cigarettes offered, the suspects not knowing he was a cop would boast of their exploits hoping to up their street cred. Meanwhile a hidden microphone was recording the conversation. This occasion was no exception which is why they recorded three human voices in the room.
If an RCMP Officer can not escape a man carrying a handicapped man in his arms and a dog, then he is not much of a cop. On this occasion, the RCMP Officer, David Beaver was able to escape, pushing the tall man and the handicapped man with the glock out of the way. Jeff Stearns was able to fire a shot of which the bullet grazed the arm of the cop running away.
chapter 4
It was at this point that the call came into the station where RCMP Corporal Chris Hines was working. A team of SWAT cops were on the way. Corporal Chris Hines was on the way there too. His wife, Constable Melissa Hines was also there amongst the Police cordon crowd that surrounded the apartment building where Constable David Beaver lived.
The suspect Jeff Stearn appeared. He was holding the pit bull in his arms. The tall man Mr Roberts was carrying the halo vested Jeff Stearns. A job which he got $5,000 a month for. That job would soon come to an end.
The Police yelled into a megaphone for him to surrender. This lasted for a few minutes.
Then in a fluid chain of motion of events, Jeff Stearns revealed the reason why he was holding the pit bull. He used one of his hands to pull out the glock that was concealed in his chest pocket which the pit bull hid from view.
The Police saw this and drew their guns. Mr Roberts could hear the hammers clicking and a warning shot was fired that just missed Mr Roberts, Jeff Stearns and the pitbull. At this, the arm carrier concierge panicked and turned around running up the stairs. See, the front of the apartment where Constable Beaver lived had a staircase going one storey up to the front entrance.
In the movie Nick of Time, it talked about how much damage different calibers of guns will do. A .38 might or might not go through a piece of wood, but a 9 millimeter will go through a few inches of steel at a far distance away.
Mr. Roberts turned 180 degrees and high tailed it up the stairs of the front entrance. Jeff Stearns was firing at the side still seeing if he could hit one of the Police Officers. At this point, the RCMP SWAT Team cop raised his sawed off shotgun with what must be an incredible caliber, more powerful than a 9 millimeter shot off a powerful blast.
It hit the criminals in the back as they were running up the stairs, just like that scene in the French Connection. But instead of hitting one man in the back as he was running up the stairs, the bullet went through the hearts of Mr Roberts, Jeff Stearns and also the dog killing the three of them simultaneously, in an upward trajectory!
AT the time, the thought that went through his head was that this reminded the RCMP SWAT Officer of the magic bullet of the JFK shooting which went through the head, arm, heart of John Kennedy and even exited to land a shot in the chauffeur John Connelly as well.
It was another case successfully if not most spectacularly closed.
Dean Noble
Dawson Creek,
March 29, 2008
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The husband and wife thing is getting to be too much. I was thinking of Columbo and his wife.
The real way to write Police stories is a cop and his partner and then sometimes working with a team of 4 or 5 other cops. All guys. Bustin' heads.
In my fictional stories Constable Chris Hines had a partner called Constable Matt Mason who was formerly with the Vancouver Police but applied for and was transfered to the RCMP. I am going to bring that character back.
I wonder if Thomas Harris was ever a cop or ever experienced being arrested because he sure knows a lot about the Police. There is the classic formula. A cop and his partner. One cop is the good cop, and one cop is the bad cop. I wonder if the good cop is always the good cop and the bad cop is always the bad cop or sometimes they alternate roles being able to turn it on and off whenever they need to.
The Police do a very important job and society would be much worse without them.
In the Spirit World, they are obviously spiritual protectors. Or people to grab you by the arm and pull you away the moment you are up to something mischievous. That happens in dreams.
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Dean Noble
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