ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE doesn't work when there's an UPDATE trigger?

Your INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE appears to be a way of preventing an error if officer_number already exists. Do you need the update to happen (to fire the TRIGGER), or could you instead use INSERT IGNORE?

I don't understand why you try to update the id. Can't you just remove the call to LAST_INSERT_ID()?

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