bernie had thought about joining the internal affairs unit to try to help weed out the few bad seeds that every profession was plagued with but then decided not to.-bernie had applied to the detective division for a transfer to that department because it was in that direction that his primary interests lay.-and he believed that his instincts and reasoning capabilities would be best used in that venue.-however , his captain preferred to keep him where he was and flat out refused his request for a transfer .