Progress Report: Marginally Ahead of Schedule

By ALBERTA HIGGINS, Council Coordination Office |

As part of my trainee assignment within the Bellwick Council’s Department of Communications, I have been tasked with monitoring and supporting the Percival Hoover Case Documentation Initiative — the Council’s first attempt to document the making of an authorised case report, a British noir publication currently known as Collateral Death.
It has been… educational.

The good news first: the website is fully operational, the appointed author (Mr Kushley) continues to submit regular updates, and Detective Hoover — our very own corgi detective — has not yet requested the complete removal of his biography.
These are measurable successes.

Since the launch in May, several coordination meetings have been held in what Mr Hoover refers to as “the interrogation room” (it is, in fact, the Council’s marketing meeting room).
Minutes were taken.
Most of them begin with “Detective Hoover declined to comment.”

Still, spirits remain high.
Mr Kushley continues to provide drafts, occasionally accompanied by notes from the detective himself.
Many of these notes consist of the word “No.”
Others are more complex, such as “Absolutely not.”

The Council remains confident that this constructive exchange will result in a coherent psychological crime narrative that reflects both the integrity of the investigative process and the requirements of Resolution 43-B regarding public transparency.

Personally, I believe there is something admirable in Mr Hoover’s refusal to make things easy. He reminds us that cooperation is not the same as compliance — a distinction my supervisor has asked me not to include in official reports.

Further updates will follow as the documentation proceeds.
In the meantime, I would like to thank the public for their patience and assure everyone that the project is firmly on schedule — in the sense that there is technically a schedule.

— Alberta Higgins