Even with a federal grant to help clear the books, the Los Angeles Police Department's crime lab still has a backlog of about 200 murder cases, said Detective David P. Lambkin, the officer in charge of the cold case homicide unit.
Correspondence obtained by al-Jazeera shows that the doctor in charge of the PA cold case review, Abdullah Bashir, wrote a single letter to French authorities – Arafat died in a French military hospital – in 2009 asking for further information.
That many tip-offs get ignored is hardly news to Joe Giacalone, a law enforcement trainer and retired NYPD Detective Sergeant who at one time was in charge of over 4,000 cold cases relating to homicides, rape and missing persons reports spanning the Bronx in New York City.
The tenacious DCI Pirie is in charge of Police Scotland's cold case unit, struggling under straitened circumstances.
People who do well with scut work are promoted to garde manger, and are in charge of preparing appetizers, soups, and cold dishes.
But given their actions, it seems those in charge of British Gas don't experience cold as they clearly don't see it as a potential problem.
She's in charge of the self-service salad, the cold meats and the chicken.
I urge these desk officers, as a former desk officer myself (for France, Spain and Portugal, in the early 80s at the United States Information Agency, in charge of US public diplomacy during the Cold War, and consolidated into the State Department in 1999) to correct me if I'm wrong.
In the gatehouse, the monk in charge of receiving guests served me a glass of cold water and a sugar-dusted sweet, customary welcoming fare.
