Raid

Two meetings: the first with the provincial COP (chief of police), and the second one with the provincial chief of NDS. Two meetings means, of course, that at least two reports have to be written. Some meetings don't result in anything worth writing a report about, but the vast majority do. And some meetings result in more data than will fit in one report. Or, as often is the case, the most interesting information comes up right after the actual meeting, during the necessary small-talk. Upon arriving at the safe house, I usually sit down and prepare the report templates while the interpreter prepares his notes. When the IP's notes are ready, I compare them with mine, complete what he had missed (yes, it usually is the IP who doesn't have the time to make a note of everything), check the spelling of names and places, take the grids of places on the map, and write the final report and put it in the outbox. Sometimes I'll have the person who has accompanied me to the meeting read through the report before mailing it.

The meetings and the reports would have neatly summed up today, if it hadn't been for the surprise visit of the FIN NSE COS, his CPT and a couple of MP's to the PO. That means the chief of staff for the Finnish national support element, his close protection team and two military policemen arriving at the provincial office. (Sometimes it makes sense to use all these acronyms.) They came here to investigate a matter which I am again not at liberty to comment on. Perhaps I can report on the outcome of the investigation at a later point in time. All in all, the investigation took some three hours of my time, the briefing about it another half hour, leaving only moments of spare time before bed.

We got two brand new washing machines today, and one tumble dryer. And more: new shower taps for the sauna, the guards finally got their new, fancy winter clothes, there was a new hose for the pressure washer and whatnot, all kinds of useful stuff that we have been waiting for for so long. Hooray to the logistics transport and the Swedish taxpayers - you made it all possible! The mobile medical team left us after a week at the PO, but instead we got the new generator maintenance guys here, not to forget J of G9. Not a day without guests. MOT D was on a SRP but E unfortunately didn't get to go out due to the surprise visit. Alas, they poured out all their frustration on the Guitar Hero game. (I just found out that the ops room is the best place to be when Echo's Guitar Hero session starts: the humming of the computers' fans overruns their noise pollution.)

Business as usual at PO Aybak...?