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Your browser doesn't support HTML5 audio. Here is a link to download the audio instead. Uh, I joined the police in January as a cadet. Graduated from the police college at Trentham in August and spent the rest of my career in the police in the Wellington area and mainly as a qualified detective in the Wellington CIB.
Now, in the CIB, the staff are separated off into various squads the drug squad and, uh, the car squad and the burglary squad, and so on and so forth. And there was [ ] a vice squad, uh, albeit there was only two of us on the squad a detective sergeant and myself as his detective. And, um, I didn't ask to be put on it.
Uh, you don't ask to get put on any particular squad from time to time, the bosses get together and decide that, Uh, well, Trevor's been this long on squad, so it's time we gave him a bit of experience in some other area of policing, and it just happened that at some stage in my career, they decided that I would stop doing what I was doing, [ ] which I think was the car squad, and that they would put me on the vice squad and I had no problem with that. It was just another squad that you did some work on.
What did the vice squad police? Well, um, it's interesting, because in particularly in America, it's often called the Morals squad. Uh, which is a very actually descriptive term because vice is is a problem of, well, not a problem.
