The text describes Vollenweid as a seven-year P.H.I. veteran: studious, serious, habitually dressed in pressed slacks and button-downs, with hair kept taut and a workday punctuated by backbends, side-twists and grip-strength training.
Procedural embodiment
Those bodily details matter because they keep the investigator from becoming only a job-title delivery system. The same corpus that invents a police bureaucracy also notices posture, mobility, strength and routine — the small physical practices by which a profession is inhabited.