MC Banhammer Posted:

During Beta, when I realized that things weren’t making sense on an alt who never chose to meet the cop. ET changed it to auto-add the cop, but then when I deployed enough code to trigger her, and it blocked my contacts, it blocked her as well, so I was completely stuck. Kinda funny.

So, for story reasons and simplicity of coding, you now have to trigger that sequence before you can proceed to the final mission.