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Hi Yvonne. Yes the term Break and Enter is still used. The term 'break' is a legal term relating to forced entry or opening a mechanism like an unlocked door or window. If someone sneaks into a home through an open door it is just an 'enter'. i.e unlawful entering of a dwelling with intent to commit an indictable offence. Whether occupants are home or not does not change the offence. Hope this helps.

@@GenreFictionPodcast 🙏 Perfect, that clarifies it comprehensively. You're a wealth of knowledge, Jack, thanks! 🙌

Hello, thanks for your question. No, generally the Detective Sergeants / Senior Constables will be the ones out doing the investigative work, conducting interviews and visiting crime scenes. The inspectors are higher level (corporate) who oversee an entire office. The will receive updates as to the status of the investigation etc by the lower ranks. The inspector might be the one who stands up in front of the media for press conferences.

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Thanks Lea and Joe.

Yeah that's interesting. In the third novel in my series called 'The Shadows Watch' my detective himself becomes the vigilante, taking justice into his own hands due to tragic circumstances out of his control and a feeling of lack of justice in the court system. I think the vigilante can work well depending on how it is used. Thanks for watching. More videos coming soon.

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Yeah for sure, living and policing in the same small community is a challenge. I've been there.

@@GenreFictionPodcast not for long I'll bet - and what about if you had a family, young kids, with school and so on; it'd be kind of like being famous and not knowing who your friends were. . .and living with a kind of siege-mentality, everyone against you

@@GaZonk100 Yeah for sure. I had three kids born and raised in the same town I policed. I even played soccer with some guys who I had charged for minor offences. Something we laughed about later.

@@GenreFictionPodcast man, you would need some inter-personal skills to navigate that situation; I don't know about more serious offences, or even DUI, and what about court, giving evidence against your smalltown homies. . .uurrk, difficult. . .hope your children got through ok. . .I've had police in the family - one in Traffic Operations (the most hated! lol) but he seemed to get along ok, but was a bit of a stay-at-home, the other a hotshot detective involved in that Carlton Crew stuff for a while. . .in the seventies I knew a bloke who was 'thinking about joining', trying to stretch himself to six foot and running a lot. . .about ten years ago he popped up on tv as a Supt! another bloke from Sydney went and joined up just to ride bikes as he was mad on them. . .think he had to pull his gun once; he was the LAST bloke I EVER expected to 'cross over'. . .we were mad as cut snakes back then, n the southern sub's of Sydney in the early 70s haha. . .I went on to study Law. . .there you go eh

So glad to hear it. Hope he likes it.

Generally the answer to both questions is no. They would only consult if there were considered such an expert that they had more experience than anyone else in the other police department - which is very unlikely. They can't be fast tracked to another similar position in another state - just doesn't work that way. Thanks for your question. Jack

No I haven't. Do you recommend it? I'll check it out. Thanks for the tip Yvonne.

@@GenreFictionPodcast It's wŕitten in Scots, is very dark, and contains some unusual graphics/illustrations (I don't even really know what to call it - you'll know what I mean when you see it) but yeah it's very good.

Yeah I'd have to agree with you ;-)