Appearance:
“There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact”Name: Ben Winston
Nicknames: N/A
Rank: Detective Sergeant
Age: 35
Occupation: Boston Police Detective.
Years On: Twelve years
Place of Birth: Webster massachusetts.
Skills:
The most important set of skills needed by a detective are the investigative skills that they gain along the way throughout the course of their education and training. Many law enforcement officials are required to have an associate's degree or higher, according to the BLS, and the research skills gained along the way can prove invaluable for detective work. Detectives who have a degree in police science, criminal justice or criminology will gain many of the necessary skills utilized by law enforcement officials. Other skills, such as those used in crime scene investigation, are learned as part of police academy training and as part of hands-on experience from working in the field.
are essential to detective work and go hand in hand with investigative skills. Detectives must be outgoing and comfortable speaking to strangers. They must have the ability to use interrogative skills to gain the information they need in order to effectively conduct investigations. Detectives need to have active listening abilities which entail the acquired skill of asking the right questions to elicit a response that gives them the information they are looking for. Ongoing communication with police and other law enforcement officials.
Detectives must be able to put their investigative and communications skills together to solve problems. Problem-solving skills involve the ability to piece together seemingly disparate strands of information and solve a crime, much like piecing together the various parts of a jigsaw puzzle. Problem-solving skills include critical-thinking skills, or the ability to solve problems through the use of logic and reasoning. Reading comprehension skills are also a necessary component of the problem-solving skill set that the detective must have.
Computer skills are also necessary for investigative work performed by detectives. In today's world of hi-tech crime, detectives must have a strong knowledge of computer encryption and security in order to beat the criminal at his own game. Computer skills are also necessary for communications purposes and for other clerical skills needed to work as a detective. Detectives must be detail-oriented and keep extensive written records of their investigations. Much of this information is recorded using various computer database, word-processing and spreadsheet computer software.
Ben has always been an introvert. He can spend hours at a time in his own mind, challenging himself to think of new perspectives without realizing it. He has always found himself most comfortable when he is indulging himself with his thoughts in a quiet environment. When he is not entertaining himself with his personal thoughts, he is rereading old cases or trying to solve a current one. He is most often alone, ever since his two divorces, he no longer finds happiness in the company of another but himself; although in the rare occasion he enjoys himself around the other members of the MCU team. He is often calm and quiet, lost in his thoughts and the past, but can anger easily at times when exasperated.
Ben often loses himself in the cases, becoming obsessed with details and clues. He can go reading a case for hours, forgetting to eat, drink, and sleep, just to try and solve it. Time is precious in times such as these, so he wants to solve it as soon as he can. When cases start dragging and clues stop showing up, he becomes angry and exasperated and nothing he does is good enough for him. The corruption of the world itches him on the inside, where no amount of scratching can help, but a solved case stops it for a while. To remind himself of all of the bad in the world, he keeps small pictures in his wallet of every victim in every case he has ever gotten. When the case has been solved, he write the date on the back of the picture, when the case has not been solved but taken away, he writes nothing to remind himself that cases are forever ready to be solved. He mulls over cases that have never been completed, forever trying to solve them to make the world a better place, never giving up even when it's hopeless.
Ben is also a lonely man, often feeling regret with his past. Although he often does not crave human company, he does miss it. He often finds himself thinking of the perfume of his first wife, or how his second would always leave messages on the mirror from the shower steam for him to find when he took his next hot shower. He misses the thought of living with another being, being lost in the eyes of a women, and the subtleties that a home has when their is another person occupying it. On rare occasion, he also misses the touch of another, running his hands through silky hair or the feeling of goosebumps on anothers flesh on a cold morning. He often powers through the loneliness and sadness, finding solace within his work to make the world a better place.
It took Ben many years to get himself promoted to Detective, starting off at the bottom as a Rookie fresh out of the Boston Police Acedemy. Experience and hard work eventually graced him with the ability to earn his gold shield. Years of cases aged him quickly and his first wife, Alysia, did not like the obsessed man he became. After five years of marriage and no children, she ended the marriage. Alysia could no longer stand the fact that she never saw her husband, and when she did he was reading a case file and was not interested in seeing her. She left him for another man, one who could love her the way she wanted. They kept in touch for a bit but both found it too difficult so communication was ended. Two years later, Ben got married again to a younger women with much passion. Jessica and he got along grandly but once more his obsession began to show and she felt sadness when she slept alone at night, the other side of the bed remaining cold. She didn't like that the man she had married became obsessed with his cases, wanting to change the world. She had thought he would change the habit once they had married but no such thing happened, that left Ben with his second divorce and the inability to ever love romantically again.
Has a cat named Harry.
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