Ralph Martin was the detective handling the on scene investigation.

Promoted to sergeant, he and his partner, Joe Afflito, worked as detectives handling the department's toughest investigations.

Hugh Orde defended the police action as "proportionate" and gave his full backing to the detectives handling the operation.

But the message did not reach the detective handling the case, a failure that police officials in New York City are investigating.

Now it was the turn of the detectives handling the case.

You want me to make an enemy of the detective handling the case?

Corey Brown said he talked to the detective handling the case, Nadine Mosley, about his fear that someone might try to keep him from the witness chair.

The police soon arrested the three, and detectives handling the case said the teen-agers joked throughout their night's stay in a Queens police station.

Perhaps he would go into the station and talk to Morris, the detective handling the attempt on her life.

Goe had been a detective for a year, handling typical suburban crimes.