Changing a Protagonist's Profession

Jill Franklin, my protagonist in the Rorschach mystery series, has gone through a series of changes. She has remained about the same age, but she has added a child, left the police department, taught school and now works as a substitute teacher and a real estate assistant in order to be at home most afternoons with her little girl while helping to pay for her son's college as her husband begins a new business. She has also added a psychological disorder that complicates her life, and she is now even more of a busy housewife than before. But she is not unlike many women who are holding down more than one job and caring for their families because they have no alternative. Jill no longer has a singular career as a policewoman and new problems with the plot arise for me as a writer. Since I have lived her varied careers, though not all at once as she is doing, except that of a police detective, not having her "on the force" and privy to police files has made it difficult for me to have her gain access to the information she will need to solve the crime. I think I have found a vehicle, however. Stay tuned to see if it works.