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Article: Undercover officers make sacrifices for high-risk job.(Front)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- August 17, 2008
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By Shawn Day
The Virginian-Pilot
VIRGINIA BEACH
It is perhaps the highest-risk position in an already dangerous profession. Undercover police officers step into unpredictable situations carrying their instinct, a quick wit and, occasionally, a gun.
No badge. No body armor.
At some point they most likely will be robbed, assaulted or, at the least, threatened. But rarely are they killed, which is why the Aug. 7 shooting death of a detective in Virginia Beach left undercover experts and investigators across the country stunned.
"There was no way you could stop that," Charlie Fuller, an undercover tactics trainer and retired special agent with the Bureau ...
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