D.E.O. (Gotham)
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The Department of Extranormal Operations operates a field office in Gotham City.
While officially present in Gotham to provide support to the GCPD with instances of "extranormal" crime, the unspoken objective of the DEO in Gotham is to enforce the Vigilante Regulation Act of 1989, reacting to the rampant and extensive vigilantism in the city. In practice, however, the field office is under-staffed, under-funded, and under-equipped - like every other law enforcement agency in Gotham - and is unable to have any sort of long-term impact on either the crime rates or vigilantism rates in the city. For most, a transfer to Gotham is seen as a dead-end posting, the kind of assignment where careers go to die.
The current Special Agent in Charge at DEO Gotham is Bartholemew Allen, a career law enforcement officer and forensics specialist recently transferred from DEO Central. Allen has extensive experience with metahumans, which have recently become an increasing problem, but the main motivator for his transfer is personal, following his wife Iris West-Allen, who was recently hired as a news presenter by Galaxy Communications. Barry Allen is also the metahuman known as The Flash, whose secret identity was discovered by DEO Agents and used to leverage him into employment with the department.
Another agent stationed at DEO Gotham is Ted Kord, formerly the CEO of Kord Industries, whose activities as the vigilante Blue Beetle ultimately bankrupted his company and led to his arrest. His employment with the DEO was offered as an alternative to incarceration, but while Kord is skilled enough to be a useful field agent, he lacks the training and qualifications expected from a DEO Agent. Instead, he is employed as tech support, using the same skills that once engineered the gadgetry of his Blue Beetle identity to track extranormal activity in Gotham. Even in that capacity, he is squandered, having spent most of his time with the department as an analyst working with crime statistics and predictive models.
