PROMOTED! BELOVED NYPD DETECTIVE MAKES LIEUTENANT
New York Daily News
April 7, 2018
Detective Katherine Beckett-Castle is known to the world for being best-selling author Richard Castle's muse, wife of nearly 4 years, and the real life Nikki Heat. She is known to New York City for a completely different reason - finding murderers and putting them behind bars. Today, Detective Beckett-Castle is celebrating something she has achieved not for her haunting good looks and ability to turn heads, but for all the time and hard work she has dedicated over the past 10 years to the betterment of our city.
The Senior Detective has been promoted: from Detective Beckett-Castle, to Lieutenant Beckett-Castle.
Captain Victoria Gates of the Twelfth precinct elaborated on the decision in a statement released to the media yesterday evening.
"Detective Beckett-Castle has proven herself to be a remarkable asset to the city's homicide division. With the highest closure rate in the city for the eighth year in a row, the NYPD and the Chief of Detectives felt that it was time for Detective Beckett-Castle to be given the chance to prove her capabilities from a more authoritative post."
This will make Katherine Beckett-Castle the youngest person to ever make lieutenant in the NYPD. Being the youngest woman to ever make detective, and, with the rumored retirement of the current Captain of the Twelfth Precinct Victoria Gates to happen sometime within the next few years (and the former Detective an obvious favorite in the department), it puts the now Lieutenant Beckett-Castle on the fast track to being the youngest Captain ever in the history of the NYPD.
(I feel obligated to tell you that when I said I was looking at their lives... I did in fact mean their entire lives.)
(Also, as Alieh pointed out you do indeed have to make Sergeant before you become Lieutenant but shh just go with it for me.)