Detective

A detective is an investigator, usually a member of a law enforcement agency. Some are private persons, and may be known as private investigators or "private eyes".

Informally, and primarily in fiction, a detective is any licensed or unlicensed person who solves crimes, including historical crimes, by examining and evaluating clues and personal records in order to uncover the identity and/or whereabouts of the criminal.

In some police departments, a detective position is achieved by passing a written test after a person completes the requirements for being a police officer. In many other police systems, detectives are college graduates who join directly from civilian life without first serving as uniformed officers. Some people argue that detectives do a completely different job and therefore require completely different training, qualifications, qualities and abilities than uniformed officers. The opposing argument is that without previous service as a uniformed patrol officer, a detective cannot have a great enough command of standard police procedures and problems and will find it difficult to work with uniformed colleagues.

Jacksonville, Florida

Jacksonville is the largest city by population in the U.S. state of Florida, and the largest city by area in the contiguous United States. It is the county seat of Duval County, with which the city government consolidated in 1968. Consolidation gave Jacksonville its great size and placed most of its metropolitan population within the city limits; with an estimated population of 853,382 in 2014, it is the most populous city proper in Florida and the Southeast, and the 12th most populous in the United States. Jacksonville is the principal city in the Jacksonville metropolitan area, with a population of 1,345,596 in 2010.

Jacksonville is in the First Coast region of northeast Florida and is centered on the banks of the St. Johns River, about 25 miles (40 km) south of the Georgia state line and about 340 miles (550 km) north of Miami. The Jacksonville Beaches communities are along the adjacent Atlantic coast. The area was originally inhabited by the Timucua people, and in 1564 was the site of the French colony of Fort Caroline, one of the earliest European settlements in what is now the continental United States. Under British rule, settlement grew at the narrow point in the river where cattle crossed, known as Wacca Pilatka to the Seminole and the Cow Ford to the British. A platted town was established there in 1822, a year after the United States gained Florida from Spain; it was named after Andrew Jackson, the first military governor of the Florida Territory and seventh President of the United States.

The Dinner

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The Dinner Detective

The Dinner Detective Murder Mystery Company is a nationwide theatrical production company based within the United States. The Dinner Detective Murder Mystery Company specializes in interactive murder mystery dinner theater entertainment in both public and private show environments. Created in 2004 by Scott and Kelly O’Brien in Culver City, CA, The Dinner Detective employs actors from The Second City, Improv Olympic, Upright Citizens Brigade and many other improvisational theater schools across the country. They perform original scripts that involve heavy audience interaction as well as a four-course sit down dinner.

History

In 2004, Scott O’Brien, the company's founder and Executive Producer, along with his wife Kelly, started a company based around the idea of forming an improvisational and updated version of the old and dated murder mystery genre. Assembling a small group of improv actors and rewriting their own original scripts based on actual cold cases, The Dinner Detective began performing their shows in 2004 at San Gennaro Restaurant in Culver City, CA. In 2006, with the demand for their performances growing and in an effort to promote shows outside of Culver City, the Dinner Detective Murder Mystery opened its second location in Orange County, CA. In 2007, The Dinner Detective opened its third location in Long Beach, CA. In January 2009 the first franchise was opened in Boulder, CO. Since 2009 over 30 locations have been opened nationwide.