Posted by Civilian Joseph Karlson (Police Commissioner) in TMODJ - Too Many Cooks (Tag Karlson)

Posted by Civilian Mthunzi Nkosenye (FedSec Special Agent) in TMODJ - Too Many Cooks (Tag Karlson)

Posted by Civilian Joseph Karlson (Police Commissioner) in TMODJ - Too Many Cooks (Tag Karlson)
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The door to the Oed Government Tower slid open and in stepped an extremely tall human male. Jet black skin and an air of authority caused pause in a few of the personnel. He looked around for a moment and then approached the reception desk. “Good morning. which of you are Police, please?” he asked in a voice rich with a difficult to place accent. “The Desk Sargent looked up (way up) and said “That would me, sir. How may I be of assistance? “I wish to see Police Commissioner Joseph Karlson.” “Do you have an appointment, sir?” the Sargent asked. “No, I am afraid I do not. I can wait, if necessary.” The Sargent shrugged and said “Scan your ID, please. I will see when the Commissioner will be available.” The man reached forward and set a metallic bracelet on the ID reader, and the Sargent cursed under his breath. “One minute, please. You can have a seat over there.” and he pointed to a row of chairs on the far wall. The man inclined his head towards the Sargent. “My thanks.” and he went and took a seat.

The Sargent took a deep breath and then put in his earpiece so the call would confidential. He dialed the Commissioner’s office and said “Hey. Yeah. tell Commissioner Karlson he has a visitor… FedSec is here to see him.”

FedSec Special Investigator Nkosenye

It only took three minutes to get a response. The sergeant informed Nkosenye that the Commissioner was in a meeting but he was free to go up to the 46th floor and wait there, he would be available in 20 or so minutes.

“Thank you very much.” Nkosenye said and took the indicated lift up.

The 46th floor near the lifts was mostly conference rooms and offices of various Police Command staff such as the Deputy Commissioner, The Chief Constable, various Chief Superintendents, and Deputy offices. The waiting area for the commissioner’s office had several sofas and lounge chairs with a coffee table on one end, the other had the raised desk of his three Secretaries and principal assistants. One of those three offered Nkosenye a drink while he would wait.

Nkosenye shook his head and instead stood, looking out the window over the city.

Exactly 20 minutes after the response from the Commissioner’s office the door opened and half a dozen senior staff exited. Most were in the dark blue uniforms of Oed police but two wore civilian suits with Badges attached to their belts. They all left chatting not paying close attention to the FedSec Officer. The primary secretary stood up, put their head through the door, and exchanged some words before turning around and looking at Mthunzi “The Commissioner will see you now.

“Thank you.” he said and moved to the office.

The office was spacious, one side had several bookcases with several actual paper books and each case had a display shelf with several holopics of the Commissioner with various known people, the last four Governors, Cabinets, and Starfleet Security Chiefs as well as Several Federation Presidents. A more recent addition was a picture taken from a public dinner with the Klingon ambassador from the house of Durok. There was a larger slightly raised area with sofas, chairs, and tables for more informal conversations. On the lounge side there was a door marked for a bathroom, on the bookcase side there was another door with a keypad next to it with no markings. On the opposite end to the door was the Commissioner’s Desk with two guest chairs, the large wooden desk was decorated with several photo frames facing the Commissioner’s side, a computer console that seemed to retract into the desk on command, and central on the desk a small orb to project holographic images.

Joseph Karlson stood to the side of the table and was holding a porcelain coffee pot, pouring into a small cup of the same make, he looked up briefly and smiled at the FedSec Officer “Coffee?” He offered.

Commissioner Karlson

“That would be lovely, thank you Commissioner.” Nkosenye said, his voice a rumble of far-off thunder. He stood and waited, and then sat down after the Commissioner had. “I am sorry to barge in on you like this, Commissioner.” he said, and then took a sip of the coffee. “Mmm… very good.” He took a breath and said “I am Federation Security Special Investigator Mthunzi Nkosenye, Commissioner. I have been assigned to investigate a case here on Oed… but I was informed this morning that there is a matter of diplomatic importance occurring. Can you please tell me what is going on?”

Nkosenye, FedSec

Joseph waved a dismissive hand “I don’t have anything specific on for the next hour” he said, taking a small sip from his cup. He nodded as Nkosenye introduced himself although he was already informed who the man was, people weren’t granted entry to his office without a background check. “Of course, bad business” He said with a frown then tapped something on his computer. A moment later a holographic image of Dash Jones popped up “This is Dash Jones, Aid to the Federation Ambassador here for the meeting with the Vren” The display showed several pictures of the Man during his stay on Oed and other photos from other events “He was murdered between two and three this morning” The display showed photos from the murder scene of the deceased Dash “There are potential complications due to his involvement with the Vren Delegation turning this murder into an interstellar incident” He explained “Further complications arose because the Victim was in a romantic relationship with the Starfleet Commander who under Oed law is the Lieutenant Governor as well” The older man shook his head “Of course this means that those involved with the investigation are my Police force, Starfleet Security, the Colonial Customs and Defence Authority, and of course the Colonial Intelligence Agency” Things used to be simpler back when Starfleet Security and the Police were at each other necks regarding investigations, back then he would just call his counterpart and hash things out, now things weren’t as simple, at least the CCDA and CIA were both easy to work with.

Commissioner Karlson

Nkosenye frowned. “That is… many hands in the pot, as my mother would say.” He looked at the holo for some time and then said “You will most likely receive a dispatch from the Federation Security Council ‘requesting’ that Federation Security take over the case. The victim was a Federation Diplomatic Corps staff member, therefore not Star Fleet personnel nor was he a resident of Oed V.” He turned his dark eyes to Karlson. “That is not how I prefer to do things, Commissioner. This is your house. While the victim does technically fall into FedSec jurisdiction, I do not have any desire to come into your house and make a mess.” He looked back at the holo. “I will offer you my assistance, however… along with a strong suggestion that you accept it. I do not wish to play games with you or the colonial government. Especially after the statement issued by your Governor and Lieutenant Governor recently.” He took a breath and sighed heavily. “I do wish, however, to bring this man a measure of justice. And I find the timing of this… incident… to be far more than coincidental to my original case to not have them be related.”

Nkosenye, FedSec

Joseph simply smiled as Nkosenye talked and once he finished he just laughed, it wasn’t a long laugh but sounded genuinely amused “Son, the Security Council won’t make that call” He started “Biggest reason is the statement made by the Government plus it’ll only take a handful of interviews with FNN and a few subspace calls to Earth to get them to back of and they know that, you and yours won’t be able to bully yourselves into this investigation” He tapped on his console with his left hand and used his right to reach into a drawer and removed a PaDD and handed it to the Special Investigator “This is an invitation draft for your Agency to send someone, you can forward it to your bosses and tell them you’ve been invited to join the investigative effort” He emphasized ‘Invited’ and ‘join’ then finished his typing and looked at the screen “If there was anything specific about this murder that required a specialist team be sent over I’d welcome them with open arms but this isn’t some serial murderer nor high-class assassination” His smile had faded as he continued to speak “Now if you want to be involved beyond a courtesy level you are free to convince me, do so without trying to strongarm me” He looked past the spectacles on the bridge of his nose “I don’t do juristictional nonsense, if you have insight tell me and I’ll put you at the tip of the sword, if not don’t waste my time” Joseph spoke plainly, he could read the FedSec Investigator, the man was no nonsense to the core and could appreciate bluntness.

Commissioner Karlson

Nkosenye looked at Karlson for a long time in silence, then simply set his hands in his lap. “Commissioner, I appreciate your invitation. However… I too will not be bullied or strongarmed. I said I didn’t wish to play games with you. That was out of respect… not authority. And you are more than welcome to go on FNN and say whatever you want. I don’t care. Publicity and public opinion do not concern me. Facts do. And the fact that you would rather sit there and play politics instead of accepting a sincere and polite offer of assistance tells me that the Oed V Police should might not be trusted with this investigation.” The entire time he spoke, his voice was steady and unemotional. “It is well within my purview to assume control of the murder investigation, Commissioner. As I stated previously, the victim was a Federation Ambassadorial staff member with consular status. Which means everything you find regarding communications, travel, records… anything concerning Mr. Jones and the like will not only be privileged… it will be diplomatically sensitive . Hence, you have no authority or legal right to even see them, let alone review them. And even if you do, it would not be admissible in court as evidence. And doing so will be seen as a violation of Federation diplomatic law. The current standings between Oed V and the Federation cuts both ways, Commissioner. The Federation does not want this incident to become… ‘more’. But the respect demanded from the Federation should be reciprocated by Oed V, yes? Otherwise, you are simply petulant children demanding your way with no responsibility to others. Now… allow me to start again. I do not want to step over you. I do not want to pull jurisdictional regulations. I. Want. To. Help. And you will need my help if you wish to find out anything about Mr. Jones, his activities, his communications, his interactions. Unless you would prefer to deal with the Federation Diplomatic Corps Headquarters on Earth. And so far their record of approving access to agents of colonial governments for the purpose of investigating their staff is zero. They send all such requests to FedSec. So you can either deal with me and let me assist- not run the investigation- … or you can have a team of FedSec investigators here who will allow you to maybe fetch them coffee while they screw up everything. The choice is yours. I have a case here I can work on and you can deal with the ramifications of not letting me help you. Either way, I will be working here for the foreseeable future. We can get along… or we can not. The choice is entirely yours.”

Nkosenye, FedSec