Officer Mackenzie Thomas put down a stack of papers and looked towards one of the newest recruits of the downtown police station who had just finished her training in the academy and joined their ranks. A small smile formed on the tall blonde's red lips as she glanced over the young, athletic, dark skinned beauty that stood in front of her, looking serious and yet a bit nervous at the same time. A young recruit, Christine "Tina" Obikwelu with impressive skills, who had surpassed all her colleagues by far in all the recruitment tests. Her test results, along with her beauty, athleticism and impressive physique instantly drew the veteran officer's attention, causing her to monitor her recruitment procedure very close.
As the head of the recruitment of an all-female Californian police crime department, Sgt Mackenzie Thomas had overseen the latest restructuring of her officers, and turned it into a high profile, very effective crime fighting section. Statistics were impressive, drug crimes sank by 40% in the area, but especially the arrests in the organised crime milieus doubled, and prominent influential crime bosses had been put behind bars thanks to her "streetwise" operation strategies. Her methods did not always go by the book and she often bent the rules, but it was the results that counted. And with her assignment as the head of the all-female division three years ago, something she had been requesting for very insistently, she kind of did "her own thing" within the greater division.
But how had it come so far? It seemed that there was a swift and rather big change in the leadership of the gangs and mobsters in the underworld. Some of the previous leaders grew old and retired and some of them were replaced by aggressive takeovers and insurrections. No matter the reason, there was a new generation of leaders in the underworld, especially the mobsters that operated in a different way. While still aggressive, they were usually more subtle, walking the thin line of the law, and often masking their activities as legal.
Backed with an army of devious lawyers and corrupt government officials, the mobsters' activities were was much more intricate and thus more difficult to prove for the police departments to investigate them, let alone arrest them, even if sometimes they happening before the police officers' own eyes. It was a very frustrating situation for the law enforcers, hence the decision to create a special force subdivision that could operate a bit more freely and slightly bent all the rules and regulations that let the gangsters and mobsters get away. After much deliberation, Sgt Mackenzie Thomas was chosen to be the leader among the other candidates due to her being a decisive, tough and intelligent police office, with years of experience on the streets, something that had allowed to form some connections of her own with the underworld and allowed her to catch up with the criminals and their new ways of operation.
One of the first things the veteran officer did was restructure the recruitment department. She had a very clear idea what kind of profiles her unit needed, and she pinpointed the recruitment strategies to find them: highly intelligent, skilled with ICT and hacking techniques, psychologically outstanding in the social skills and at the same time being able to keep a subtle image. And last but not least the physical capacities where very important. Her way of operating seemed to focus both on direct action, as well infiltration.