One of the things I need to do to give my detective/urban fantasy book some verisimilitude is learning about cop procedure in the real world, so I know what rules I'm breaking as I change things to fit my world. I have made contact with the Ottawa police and found someone willing to answer questions, and I've been compiling a list as I write. But even better, I'll have the chance to attend a panel that is exactly about police procedure in novels, with a member of the RCMP as one of the panelists. The RCMP has a different jurisdiction than the local police, but I do refer to it in my book as well. Strange how sometimes things just fall together.