[Icelander]

Ok, we've got a multi-agency task force led by Regional Director Jason Taylor of the Texas DPS, veteran Texas Ranger and Major of Company A (Houston) until his promotion a couple of months ago.

Second in command is ASAC Ed Michel of the FBI, because Lacoste recognised that the FBI would inevitably have a strong claim to controlling the jurisdiction and decided to shade his own report and the official version from the Galveston County Sheriff's Office to present Michel as vital to the strong spirit of interagency coordination that yielded the success aboard the Aqueronte.* So instead of appointing someone more senior from Washington to the task force, ASAC Michel is made the XO and due to Jason Taylor's preferences, will end up being the one doing most of the talking in the media.

The senior ICE-HSI figure is SAC Valeria Sanders, an ambitious, politicially-savvy attorney whose hands-on law enforcement experience is much less than Taylor and Michel's, but whose connections in Washington are considerably better. Brilliant, hard-nosed, organized and effective, but unfortunately for Lacoste, inexplicably biased against him.

SAC Sanders also seems to be bitter to be reporting to a 'provinvial cowboy cop' and an 'over-the-hill FBI dinosaur' she outranks, but has no choice but to accept it, especially after the third incident, which happened at the UTMB-TDCJH inmate hospital in Galveston and serves to put the violent attacks on law enforcement back into the foreground and reduce the focus on human trafficking.

Lacoste will be brought on at the Galveston County Sheriff's Office full-time for the duration of the investigation, at his previous NOPD rank, Detective Lieutenant. He'll be the case officer for GCSO and while Sheriff Trochesset also belongs to the new task force, there's no question that Lt. Lacoste will be the primary investigator from the GCSO and the Sheriff is going to badk him to the hilt.

From all appearances, it also looks like ASAC Michel and Lt. Lacoste are establishing a solid working relationship, despite some early clashes, as Michel has noticed that Lacoste chose to color his reports so that Michel now has the chance of a lifetime to shine on national television.

America is watching and Lacoste has given the correct subtle signs to indicate that credit for his work is to flow to Sheriff Trochesset, the US Marshals in the person of Deputy Marshal Natalie Garza (made acting supervisor of the GCVOFTF and responsible for high-risk warrant service around Galveston in relation to the investigation) and ASAC Michel, as Lacoste is going to remain in the background as far as the media are concerned.

Now, I've got a few questions.

First, what should the special task force for investigating the violent criminal incidents between 27th and 30th of December 2018 on and around Galveston be named?

Second, Teddy Smith is a Reserve Deputy, but not one with any training, experience or credibility as a detective. He's been volunteering his time to train the Marine Units in nearby Sheriff's Offices in boating, diving and maritime search and rescue, as well as giving helpful courses for the armorers for the SWAT teams. The closest he gets to detective skills are 1 point in Interrogation and 4 points in Intelligence Analysis, from pseudo-operations in the Selous Scouts and nine years as, effectively, a senior Intelligence and Operations NCO in Kessler's emerging anti-supernatural threat network.

Can Sheriff Trochesset plausibly put a Reserve Deputy who is not a detective on a special task force instead of a deputy with detective experience? Would such a task force have billets for administrators or analysts from the local Sheriff's Office or would all such support personnel be provided from the much more numerous and better funded state or federal agencies?

Third, how many people, in total, might there be on a task force investigating a total of 40+ murders, almost that many wounded, about that many victims of human trafficking, 25 suspects in custody and about 30 persons of interest being sought, with that number growing hourly?

What might be a rough breakdown of local, state and federal personnel?

*Yes, the PCs managed to dodge being held responsible for a catastrophe and instead managed to buy favors and influence by doling out credit for what is being presented as a heroic success by law enforcement. Movies love the trope of the protagonist who is clueless about office politics, service rivalries and the power of presentation, but PCs who are well-connected and extremely skilled at social engineering tend to have lot more plausible opportunities for shaping the course of events.