4338.209 · July 28, 2018 AD
Every Thread at Once
Two missing persons. One statement. And a cascade of procedure maintained by case administrator Meredith Colburn's operational action log. Within hours, Jenkins is pressing First Point Credit Union for financial records while Lahey dispatches welfare checks, raises vehicle alerts, and initiates hospital enquiries from her desk. By mid-afternoon, she's delegating employer enquiries to Emily Rogers and transport checks to Ellen Lowe — Saturday staffing stretching thin against mounting actions.
Louise Jeffries' statement lands on a Saturday morning, and the institutional response begins immediately — each action documented in the operational log maintained by case administrator Meredith Colburn from her desk on the CIB floor.
Jenkins leads the bank records request to First Point Credit Union, pushing past a branch manager's verification demands while Lahey runs both men through police databases and enters them into the national missing persons system. A welfare check is dispatched to the Berriedale address. A vehicle alert goes out for Kain's car. Hospital and coronial enquiries are initiated.
When Jenkins departs for Berriedale mid-afternoon, the remaining actions cascade through Lahey alone — employer enquiries delegated to Senior Constable Emily Rogers, airport and ferry checks assigned to Ellen Lowe, a CCTV canvass request lodged with the Intelligence Unit, and a statement from Kain's pregnant fiancée Brianne Sitch scheduled for Sunday.
Each action is standard. Each is necessary. And each hits the Saturday wall — weekend staffing, closed offices, automated phone systems. This is what policing looks like before anyone knows what they're investigating: a net cast wide by officers who haven't stopped moving since the interview room door closed behind Louise Jeffries.
