That was the idea behind you leaving the department and setting up your own shop, wasn't it?

All this leaves the department precisely where it did not want to be.

He also said at least half the 900 officers on the force with 20 years of experience or more were likely to leave the department.

There are people who say that you never left the department.

He added that of the 3,776 officers who left the department last year, 807 had less than 20 years on the job.

The first generation of graduates left the department in 1969.

I joined the force as a rookie just before your father left the department.

A couple of books ago, Harry was fed up and left the department.

Both men have since left the department and the matter seems unlikely to move farther.

Last I heard you'd left the department and were working for some agency.