Hell, he was a detective lieutenant up to a week ago.

It wasn't every day a detective lieutenant from Homicide dropped by someone's office.

The detective lieutenant bent down, feeling around the left hip.

He became detective, sergeant, lieutenant and then captain in the 1980's.

For a second Laurie was tempted to ask how the meeting with the detective lieutenant had gone, but decided against it.

McClane has been on the force 30 years, his rank is senior detective lieutenant.

The detective lieutenant opened a desk drawer for a bottle of aspirin.

Chan had been a detective lieutenant at the time.

"More than I can afford," the detective lieutenant grunted.

But why is a detective lieutenant so interested in an eighteen-year-old homicide victim?