It was an interesting week at work. I finished training the Sooner and I started evaluating CC. I rode one night by myself and another with a fellow officer. On the nights that I was not training or evaluating, I was dispatched to great training calls. Figures.
The week started out slow with my final day of training C. He started evaluation the following night and should not have any problems. The following night was my first night with CC. He is from Venezuela and has been in the States for 10 years. He was an engineer before becoming an officer. The night was very slow. There was very little traffic and no calls for service. We were able to make three traffic stops and checked by with another unit on a family disturbance. A husband pushed his wife and the district attorney took Class A assault charges on the husband. It was a perfect training call so we took over.
CC was still on his trainers schedule, so he had Thursday and Friday nights off. He switches to my schedule on Saturday. That meant that I was without a rookie for two nights. On the first night I was dispatched to a found property call. I arrived to find a business owner who had found a homeless person's property behind her business. There were two multi tools, a pair of pliers, a box cutter, a hat, some papers, and a wallet. The business owner asked me what she could have done with the stuff and I suggested that the trash was an option. Then I dutifully took custody of the crap, wrote down her information, tagged the property into the property room, and wrote a report. Outstanding police work.
Later I was dispatched to an assault / injury / just occurred. Most of those calls are simple, straight forward report calls. Gather information and then regurgitate it in report form. Not this time. A 54 year old schizophrenic female that is off her meds (of course) went out drinking with her daughter. On the way home, they get into an argument that turns physical. The daughter beat the crap out of mom. Then the daughter kicked mom out of the car. Mom's left eye was severely swollen and she would not stop crying. Then she tells me that she wants to kill herself and has tried unsuccessfully in the past. So, I have to cuff her and take her to the hospital. Since she is drunk and injured, I can't just take her to the psychiatric hospital. I have to take her to the ER where she will be allowed to sober up and her injuries will be treated. Then she will be transferred to the psychiatric unit. Once there, we go through triage and are assigned a bed. Then I have to do an Emergency Detention Order. Then I have to write an assault / mental illness report. It was a perfect training call, but I had no one to train.
The next night I rode with another officer in the beat. We are friends but had never ridden together before. We were dispatched to an assault with a deadly weapon in the ward. When we arrived the suspect was gone. We took the report info and left. Twenty minutes later the call dropped again. The person with the gun was back. Six units quickly converged on the area. We saw the suspect and he took off running. S and B took off running after him. The suspect jumped a fence and ran for a few blocks and then disappeared. Just vanished. We set up a perimeter and had a dog search but never found him. However, we were able to find out his identity. B then filed an evading arrest warrant on him and found out that he is wanted for possession of a controlled substance. That is why he was running.
After that we were sent to a three car accident with a disturbance in the gayborhood. We arrived to find a convertible BMW, an Explorer, and a Honda Accord parked on the side of the road. After talking to the drivers we found out that the BMW rear ended the Accord which then hit the Explorer. The driver of the BMW was a real PITA. His statement to me was "I do not know what happened" without any further elaboration. He received a ticket for failing to control speed. His BMW was towed because the radiator was destroyed in the accident. As the car was being towed away, the man began crying. He walked over to us and said "I do not think that it is fair that you are taking my car away from me. That is my baby. I hurt my baby."
Saturday night arrived and I was able to get back to evaluating. CC and I helped B with an accident involving a DWI. The driver was hard of hearing. So he got out of his vehicle sounding crazy. He was not crazy, just sounded that way. Going through his vehicle we found Cystic Fibrosis medications. Sure enough, the driver and his twin brother have CF. We talked about that for awhile. I made sure that he was not diabetic, since a diabetic reaction can look like intoxication. He had recently turned 21 and went out and had a few drinks. He had been driving southbound in the northbound lanes of a city street when he struck another truck. It was very fortunate that no one was injured. He was charged with DWI.
We also had a robbery / car jacking. A man was driving his truck and stopped at a red light. While he was stopped, two females and a male opened the passenger side door and jumped into the truck. They pushed the man out and began driving off. The man jumped into the bed of his truck. Bad idea. This is not the movies. The truck sped up and then made a quick u-turn throwing the man out of the bed of the truck and onto the street. Luckily he was not run over by another vehicle but he did have some road rash. Then he tells us that he knew the people that had jumped into his truck, one of the females was his ex-girlfriend. Ok, my BS meter was now on full alert. We asked if he was meeting them there. No. Why were they there? No idea. Did they know you would be in this area (20 miles from where he lived). No. Did you loan them the truck? No. He stuck to his they just happened to be there and jumped into the truck story. Whatever dude. Just because you say it, does not make it true.
Next week I will finish evaluating CC and I get to go to a training class in the new SWAT house at the academy. I am looking forward to that.
The week started out slow with my final day of training C. He started evaluation the following night and should not have any problems. The following night was my first night with CC. He is from Venezuela and has been in the States for 10 years. He was an engineer before becoming an officer. The night was very slow. There was very little traffic and no calls for service. We were able to make three traffic stops and checked by with another unit on a family disturbance. A husband pushed his wife and the district attorney took Class A assault charges on the husband. It was a perfect training call so we took over.
CC was still on his trainers schedule, so he had Thursday and Friday nights off. He switches to my schedule on Saturday. That meant that I was without a rookie for two nights. On the first night I was dispatched to a found property call. I arrived to find a business owner who had found a homeless person's property behind her business. There were two multi tools, a pair of pliers, a box cutter, a hat, some papers, and a wallet. The business owner asked me what she could have done with the stuff and I suggested that the trash was an option. Then I dutifully took custody of the crap, wrote down her information, tagged the property into the property room, and wrote a report. Outstanding police work.
Later I was dispatched to an assault / injury / just occurred. Most of those calls are simple, straight forward report calls. Gather information and then regurgitate it in report form. Not this time. A 54 year old schizophrenic female that is off her meds (of course) went out drinking with her daughter. On the way home, they get into an argument that turns physical. The daughter beat the crap out of mom. Then the daughter kicked mom out of the car. Mom's left eye was severely swollen and she would not stop crying. Then she tells me that she wants to kill herself and has tried unsuccessfully in the past. So, I have to cuff her and take her to the hospital. Since she is drunk and injured, I can't just take her to the psychiatric hospital. I have to take her to the ER where she will be allowed to sober up and her injuries will be treated. Then she will be transferred to the psychiatric unit. Once there, we go through triage and are assigned a bed. Then I have to do an Emergency Detention Order. Then I have to write an assault / mental illness report. It was a perfect training call, but I had no one to train.
The next night I rode with another officer in the beat. We are friends but had never ridden together before. We were dispatched to an assault with a deadly weapon in the ward. When we arrived the suspect was gone. We took the report info and left. Twenty minutes later the call dropped again. The person with the gun was back. Six units quickly converged on the area. We saw the suspect and he took off running. S and B took off running after him. The suspect jumped a fence and ran for a few blocks and then disappeared. Just vanished. We set up a perimeter and had a dog search but never found him. However, we were able to find out his identity. B then filed an evading arrest warrant on him and found out that he is wanted for possession of a controlled substance. That is why he was running.
After that we were sent to a three car accident with a disturbance in the gayborhood. We arrived to find a convertible BMW, an Explorer, and a Honda Accord parked on the side of the road. After talking to the drivers we found out that the BMW rear ended the Accord which then hit the Explorer. The driver of the BMW was a real PITA. His statement to me was "I do not know what happened" without any further elaboration. He received a ticket for failing to control speed. His BMW was towed because the radiator was destroyed in the accident. As the car was being towed away, the man began crying. He walked over to us and said "I do not think that it is fair that you are taking my car away from me. That is my baby. I hurt my baby."
Saturday night arrived and I was able to get back to evaluating. CC and I helped B with an accident involving a DWI. The driver was hard of hearing. So he got out of his vehicle sounding crazy. He was not crazy, just sounded that way. Going through his vehicle we found Cystic Fibrosis medications. Sure enough, the driver and his twin brother have CF. We talked about that for awhile. I made sure that he was not diabetic, since a diabetic reaction can look like intoxication. He had recently turned 21 and went out and had a few drinks. He had been driving southbound in the northbound lanes of a city street when he struck another truck. It was very fortunate that no one was injured. He was charged with DWI.
We also had a robbery / car jacking. A man was driving his truck and stopped at a red light. While he was stopped, two females and a male opened the passenger side door and jumped into the truck. They pushed the man out and began driving off. The man jumped into the bed of his truck. Bad idea. This is not the movies. The truck sped up and then made a quick u-turn throwing the man out of the bed of the truck and onto the street. Luckily he was not run over by another vehicle but he did have some road rash. Then he tells us that he knew the people that had jumped into his truck, one of the females was his ex-girlfriend. Ok, my BS meter was now on full alert. We asked if he was meeting them there. No. Why were they there? No idea. Did they know you would be in this area (20 miles from where he lived). No. Did you loan them the truck? No. He stuck to his they just happened to be there and jumped into the truck story. Whatever dude. Just because you say it, does not make it true.
Next week I will finish evaluating CC and I get to go to a training class in the new SWAT house at the academy. I am looking forward to that.
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