ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at two in-depth interviews with ace detectives for the guide. It reviews one detective commander and one very special investigator detective first grade to underscore what detectives do. The chapter explores how and why an investigator can be successful in ensuring the criminal is placed in custody in a legally sound and humane manner. To be effective, detectives must have a capacity for negotiation and most importantly mediation. In looking at the seeking of truth in the commission of a crime, a trained and tenured psychologist and trained and tenured detective may have more parallel bars to travel on than not. In many ways, while the individual detective may not have the skill of a writer and statesman such as Churchill or the charisma of Marcus Aurelius, he/she seeks real evidence in part as he/she must compromise with speculation and imagination.
