Last few weeks

Well, the last few weeks have been pretty interesting. I've been keeping copies of my daily activity reports so I can look back and see what I did.

On the 12th, I got my first DUI on my own. That was pretty exciting. Then later I helped another one of the rookies on a DUI. They were just falling in our laps that day. On the 13th I rode with a senior officer. It wasn't too exciting until the end of the night when we responded to a walk-in at St. Joe. He had an arterial bleed on his wrist. He was squirting blood everywhere. I immediately grabbed the camera and started taking pictures of the outside. Then I walk in the ER and they said "follow the blood trail". It was pretty nasty, but I held up much better than I thought I would. On the 14th I worked an injury accident and a hit and run. Luckily I sat BOF (badge on the floor) at the station that night so I was able to get all that paperwork done. On the 15th, I assisted SCAT at 11:30 p.m. with a female patdown and was there till 7 a.m. while they executed a search warrant. That is what we call a day killer.

I don't have a copy from the 19th, but I am pretty sure it was uneventful. On the 20th, I didn't do a whole lot. Then around 2:30 a.m. I assisted with an assault case. I was with that until 7 a.m. Another day killer. The 21st was pretty exciting. The night was very slow until I picked up a wanted person out of Pottawatomie county and took them to the jail. While there, one of the other guys in my class had a drunk chick. They were trying to get her back in cuffs to get her into booking when she resisted. I helped wrestler her to the ground where she began kicking. I was trying to control her legs when she kicked me in the face. I didn't notice it, but my arrestee said "she just kicked you in the face". It took a little while to get her in cuffs. People are crazy when they are drunk. We ended up booking also booking her for Battery-LEO. The next day my head hurt pretty good and I had a nice bruise on my right arm. Guess she kicked me there too. When your adrenaline is pumping, you don't feel anything. The 22nd was another crazy night. We got tons of disturbance weapons calls. I got to run hot down Central to an officer in trouble call. Then at about 4:55 a.m a shooting came out just down the street from the station, where I was doing paperwork. I got there and got to talk to a witness. Then I was asked to take him to the 6th floor for detectives to interview. Sounds like they ended up catching the guy that shot the lady in that house.

Baxter has been a bit of a pain and I don't know if I like him yet. He tends to holler alot while I'm sleeping. Usually it's inches from my face. He got declawed Monday. I pick him up today. Justin is going to ride with me tonight. He has spend most of this week getting certified on the M-4. He has training today from 8a.m. to 5 pm, then he has tomorrow off. So we thought this was a good night for him to ride. I'm hoping to learn a lot from him. Monday night Justin and I hung out with some people from our class. We had a good time and it was fun hearing every ones cop stories.

On my own

As of March 7th, I have been out of training and on my own. My final week of FTO wasn't too crazy. I only road with my training officer 2 days. My official end of phase was Thursday March 5. On Friday, I road with a traffic officer and got Lydar certified.

Saturday, March 7th I was on my own. Just a reminder I am working 4th (9pm - 7 am) with Mon, Tues, Wed off. My first night they wanted both us rookies to ride on our own. However, when Marks and I went out to find a car we had a little trouble. The car I got in, an Impala, had to be jumped. The car Marks got in, the computer didn't work. Those were the only cars left on the lot. Marks was headed to CMF to find a car that might have had repairs completed, when someone who was already there told the Sgt. there weren't any. So, Sgt. decided to pair Marks and I up. However, when I went to log us on the computer, it wouldn't work. "Help Desk" was useless. We took another computer from a downed vehicle and were on our way. It was a pretty slow night. Most of the calls were pretty routine. The only thing that sucked was when they sent us on 2 officer calls, we were the only ones there. There were no senior officers to ask questions to.

Then, Sunday I was finally on my own. It was another slow night. I did a club check with a couple other officers and they ended up finding a crap load of cocaine on some people. I helped transport to jail. That was the most exciting thing all night. I got so desperate for entertainment that I wrote a parking ticket. Don't park left wheels to curb on my beat.

Then, I had Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday off. As a reward for finishing my training I got a cat. He's a cute little pain in the butt. He pretty much lies around all the time. He is very affectionate and talks...alot. We named him Baxter.