“What you do, is true blue police work….what I do? That’s a darker shade of blue” – Alec DuffyName:Alec Douglas Duffy
Nicknames:Various Undercover Aliases. Nomad (Call Sign)
Rank:Detective
Age:31
Occupation:Police Detective
Years On:8 years
Place of Birth:South Boston, Boston, MA
Skills:Undercover Ops: Born and raised amongst the criminal element, Alec was more or less born with the skills necessary for undercover operations. Able to blend in effortlessly using manipulation, coercion, charm and physical prowess, he is often the prime candidate for undercover work.
Physical Ability: Built like a truck at 6’3 and with plenty of strength and muscle, Alec is good to have in a fight. Trained in boxing from a young age, he is a brawler by trade and can get down and dirty with the best of them.
Firearms Training: Alec has the standard firearms training of any police officer but is a little bit more seasoned in the usage of guns as he has had to use his a fair few more times than most.
Analytical Ability A keen observer of the human condition, Alec has a knack for understanding people and situations fairly quickly, an advantage in his line of work.
Personality & History:Alec Duffy was born in South Boston on a warm July night in 1983, the only child of a German prostitute and her Irish mobster lover. Alec’s father had another family, a true family that he loved. Although everyone knew of Alec’s existence, they never acknowledged him. The closest he ever came to being part of a real family was when he was allowed to use his father’s surname as his own. He was nothing more than Jimmy Duffy’s little bastard as far as anyone else was concerned. The lack of a strong, paternal figure in his life left Alec with a penchant for adaptability. Without a strong father figure or male role-model, his sense of identity and self, became more capable to adapt and influence giving him certain "chameleon-like" tendencies that would serve him well when infiltrating a criminal organization in the future.
Growing up on the outside of love, watching as his half siblings got everything they wanted hardened something within Alec’s heart. He watched as the criminal scum he shared blood with continued to evade any kind of justice for his actions. Seeking vengeance at his abandonment, Alec was determined to get even. First, he anonymously tipped the police on a recent murder that his father had committed, claiming that the murder weapon was buried in the backyard. Indeed it was and Jimmy Duffy is now serving life in prison. Second, when he left college at the age of twenty one, he signed on with the Police Academy. Alec, although not exactly studious, was a gifted member of his academy class thanks to his already bountiful knowledge of Boston’s criminal world as well as a highly intuitive nature.
Upon graduating, Alec served in patrol for two years, working his beat and becoming extremely comfortable with the people of the street, many of whom he still uses as informants to this day. Eventually becoming bored and wanting to satisfy his intellectual vanity, the young Southie made the transition to gangs and narcotics where he got his first taste of undercover work. After a few more years, eventually Alec was chosen to join the undercover operations division full time. From then on, he became exposed to long term and prolonged investigations which in turn frayed his edges quite deeply. When the major crimes unit was formed, it was decided that an undercover officer would be needed for their potential sprawling cases and Alec because of his clearance rate was chosen to join up.
To stop himself from falling to deep into his cover, Alec has developed a very detached persona. Although he is open and friendly with his co-workers, he is extremely detached, barely having any sort of emotional connection with any of them. He is a man of few words but when he does speak, people tend to listen…
Extra:- Trained in Boxing from the age of 8
- Alec’s true birth surname is unknown as he legally changed it
- He often works with headphones in, another mechanism to keep himself detached from everyone else
