It was a routine assignment, but hardly a routine time for personnel in the 70th Precinct.
His service in the 18th ended abruptly in 1862 after a routine assignment went wrong.
An accident while on a routine assignment at a wastewater treatment plant in Red Hook in 1993 ended his employment.
What appears to be a routine assignment can become deadly very quickly," Police CommissionerRaymond W. Kelly said at a news conference at the hospital.
Next up is a far from routine assignment on Sunday at The Hawthorns against the season's domestic upstarts, West Bromwich Albion.
The Wolf Gift by Anne Rice (Chatto & Windus, £18.99) Reuben Golding, a young, handsome and privileged reporter on the San Francisco Observer, is sent on a routine assignment to write about a mansion on the Californian coast.
It also resulted in the presentation of a special Polk Memorial Award to Mr. Whitman in 1980 for "setting new standards of excellence at what had been a routine assignment".
It must have seemed a routine assignment for one of the Daily Mail's star columnists: a catty take on the death of Boyzone star Stephen Gately which pandered to the prejudices of its readers.
He's also a tricky plotter, confounding Zoë with a routine assignment — identifying the three members of a gang involved in a jewelry store robbery — that becomes complicated when one of these thieves gets his hands on a crossbow and another is stabbed to death by his wife.
Like Nirbhaya, the Mumbai girl gang-raped on Thursday was doing nothing more reckless than being on a routine assignment, again with a male colleague, at a derelict textile mill in the heart of the city; it was close to the peak-hour Mahalaxmi commuter railway station.
In mid-December, the award-winning Australian correspondent Peter Greste arrived in Egypt's capital for a routine assignment - his first in the country.
