First few days on the job

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I've started my first week. I'm with he K-9 unit for the first two weeks of my FTO (Field Training Operation). Its been pretty fun.

I can't give too much detail in case any of these go to trial so I'm being brief on purpose.

My shift is from 3:00 pm to 1:00 am. This shift it particularly busy because that's when everyone gets home from work. A bunch of car accidents and people coming home and drinking getting pissed at everyone, or finding out there apartment was robbed while at work at the local fast food place, etc.

My first call we went to was a car accident. A lady had some sort of medical problem and passed out at the wheel. She ended up rear ending a lady, plowing through an intersection hitting the traffic light pole, then continuing through a yard and ran into a tree. Pretty intense for the first thing. Medical came and grabbed her while we got a tow truck to get rid of the car (busted front axle, not drivable).

The rest of the evening was going to burglar alarms and domestic violence calls where parents were fighting with kids, etc.

Last night was pretty busy too. There was a guy so drunk he couldn't continue walking down the street. When we pulled up to talk to him he was sitting down, but was wobbling even while sitting. He was only a couple of houses away from his moms house which is where he was going but just decided to stop and rest for a little bit. Pretty funny to hear him slurring his words and stuff. He was pretty out of it.

Another call was a Domestic Violence (DV). A lady had gotten angry at another guy for an unknown reason and hit him in the head with a brick. Blood was everywhere. Weird though because he didn't want to press charges.

Another call was an aggravated assault. A roommate wanted rent to be paid, but the other not having money threatened him with a knife and said he would kill him. Guy ran for his life and called us. We showed up and had a description of the guy we where looking for. He answered the door but said his name was different. He invited us in to see if we could find the guy we where looking for. Took forever to answer the door. Turns out he didn't have ID. In Spanish I heard him tells the other guys in the house to call him a different name. I played stupid to the fact I understood them and continued to listen to their story. Eventually we found his wallet and I translated what I knew to the other officers. Arrested him for a ton of stuff. False info to police, agg. assault/DV, found drug paraphernalia etc. That one was pretty fun.

I'm slowly catching on to everything. Its amazing how much stuff there is to learn that the academy didn't show us or teach us. I'm just nervous during this first few weeks. I started with 10 guys in my group hen I first got hired and only 6 are left. Guys keep telling me to be careful because they don't hesitate to fire someone during the FTO program if they aren't cutting it.

Hope all goes well.

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I'm Official

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Just a quick update.

Today was the Law Enforcement certification test. Basically when all is said and done I could do awesome the entire time I was in POST and not pass this last test and lose my job.

Two hours later I PASSED!

94%! Second highest score in the class. Graduation is Friday Oct 19th at 11:00am

Go me!

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First Responder to Robbery

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The academy is wrapping up. I only have about a week and a half before graduation on Oct 19th. So its been harder to get posts written here.

A little while back a women was beaten and robbed right across from our apartment. It was about 5:30 a.m. when I heard a man screaming for help and to call 911. Not quite sure what I was thinking but i went running outside to see if I could help. Outside I discovered a women with half her face smashed in with blood everywhere. Her eyes where swollen shut and her face was already swollen and hard to recognize any features. She was choking on her own blood and her boyfriend was freaking out.

Thats when I noticed his gun on the sidewalk. I asked him who it belonged to. He said he has a permit for it and grabbed it when he heard his girlsfriend screaming. I told the women to roll on her side and spit out the blood as it filled her mouth or she would have a hard time breathing and would eventually throw up. There was another women their on the the phone with dispatch and I heard her say she could see a gun at the scene.

I started asking her if she could feel her hands and feet and see if she could move them. I couldn't compare pupil size to check for head trauma because one was totally swollen shut but by the looks of her I had no doubt of a concusion. She didn't know what happened or how she got there, what day or time it was and she even had to think for a while to tell me what her name was. She was in pretty bad condition.

Then I told the boyfriend I would watch her and told him he should go put the gun away. He started to object but I showed my badge as an off duty officer and when the police got there if he didn't get it put away they would first suspect him of beating or shooting her. He ran back into his apartment and put it away and was coming back out as the first officer arrived.

The first question he asked her is where had she been shot. (Told ya boyfriend dude!) They had origionally been dispatched to a shooting because of what the lady on the phone had told them. Once I explained what I knew from first arriving he took over the scene and medical took the lady to the hospital.

They think what happened was she was on her way to work. When she got outside a person hit her in the face with a bat or metal pipe, pulled her into the bushes and took her purse. Who ever did it knew her routine and that she would be there at 530 in the morning and is most likely a resident of the apartment complex.

It made channel 5 news. If you cut and paste the link you can see the report. I'm the skin head looking guy in a black jacket and the blonde lady is the one who called 911 and freaked out over the gun.

http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=148&sid=1864886

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