Today was day number 15 for me and Z. His last day of third phase. He will start evaluation in about a week. He will do fine. After three weeks with me, he can certainly write reports and do a safe traffic stop. Tonight we had 4 traffic stops and 2 reports. That is a pretty standard weekday night. During the winter, we have to jump on reports early in the shift because after about 1 AM, everything gets real quiet. There is very little foot traffic and very little vehicular traffic. The calls stop dropping as well. Last Friday, we jumped on a couple of reports early. Then we did our traffic stops and were about to settle in and write our reports at 3 AM. The dispatcher had other ideas for us. A two district unit had been dispatched to an accident in 2 district. They could not find the accident in 2 district and kept driving south. Just after crossing into 1 district, they found the accident. So, they got on the air and asked the dispatcher to send a 1 district unit out to handle the accident. Ok, seems kind of lame to call for another unit if you are dispatched to it. Especially if you find the accident in your station's area which they did, but that is their choice. We were not available, we were out report writing. There were other 1 district units available, but the dispatcher called our numbers. She said that she would have to preempt us from report writing and send us to check by with the 2 district unit. We said clear, but were not real excited about it. We arrived and found a one vehicle accident and a 2 district unit and a DWI unit with a suspect int he back seat of the DWI unit's vehicle. The first thing the 2 district unit said to us was, "I do not want to dump this on you guys". Well, then don't. But that is just what you have done. Apparently the vehicle was southbound on Montrose and tried to turn westbound onto Allen Parkway. They did not even come close to making the turn and they slammed into the retaining wall. Then the driver got out and took off. The suspect in the back of DWI units vehicle was probably the driver, but we had no way of knowing. He was not the registered owner and said he had not been driving. We did not have nay witnesses to the accident. The DWI unit found the male coming out of the bayou that runs between Allen Parkway and Memorial. The DWI officer asked the suspect why he was in the bayou, and he said that he was just swimming. He was drunk which means he was most likely our driver. The suspect was arrested for public intoxication. Since we had no driver for our accident, that meant that we (and by "we" I mean Z) had to do two reports. One accident report and one offense report for FSGI, fail to stop and give information. At least it was a one vehicle accident and since the driver left, we had very little information for the accident report. But, we went from 3 reports to 5 reports in a matter of minutes and Z had some work to do. He did a great job on the reports and we still went home on time. At least Z knows that he can complete 5 reports in a timely manner. Every night is different.
No comments:
Post a Comment