Bailey is the unit's sole full-time detective, but they borrow officers from other units.
For several years he was the only full-time detective detailed to the case.
When she was a full-time detective, Ms. García-Aguilera had meetings with murder witnesses at 4 a.m. in dangerous places like the solitary tomato fields of Homestead; she climbed into Dumpsters to look for evidence (once she got in so deep she couldn't get out); and she survived daylong stakeouts with a phone by her side to help her daughters with homework.
"All of our ag crimes are up," said Sergeant Reed, who oversees a unit of two full-time detectives — down from three a year ago — all patrolling a county about eight times the size of Rhode Island.
Mr. Parco, 49, has more than a dozen full-time detectives working for his company, which in the 1980's often conducted sweeps of entire rental apartment buildings, collecting a bounty from landlords for each tenant eventually evicted.
The team of 45 full-time detectives – more than triple the number deployed to investigate illegal expenses claims by MPs – is having to review all actions and decisions taken by the previous investigation.
Currently, the department's gang detail has two full-time detectives who work directly with the estimated 5,000 gang members and 22 gangs in Long Beach.
"People often ask me if it gets old, and they wonder why we are spending all this money," said Detective Kathleen Larson, one of 11 detectives assigned full time to the King County Sheriff's Green River Task Force, who spent most of today bushwhacking her way through the forest and sifting through rocky soil for remains.
In a phone interview, he told me that, in addition to the feds, two homicide detectives are working full time on the case, and as many as a dozen other detectives are also in the loop.
With the Christmas season at its peak, Woodbridge Center now has four officers and one plainclothes detective assigned there full time, said James Davy, the town administrator.
Mr. Giuliani, Donna Hanover, their two children, Judith Nathan and Helen Giuliani, the former mayor's mother, are being protected full time by more than two dozen detectives from the New York Police Department.
