I read The Roanoke Cop‘s blog last night and he has posted a dandy.  So, without futher ado, what it is like to be a police officer for a day. Love it….

Extensive driving is a by-product of my employment.  An average night at work means I put more kilometers on my work vehicle in one day than I do on my personal vehicle in a week. And one of the observations I’ve made is this – we are becoming far less courteous to one another on [...]

“Two-fox-nineteen,” an officer said over the radio, “I’ve been flagged down by a staff member from the Noname Bank located at the corner of Something St and Nowhere Ave.  There’s a male inside the bank causing a disturbance and they need help having him removed.” “Ten-four,” dispatch responded. I was sitting in my car at that intersection so [...]

I’ve been working PSD Hondo for four years.  In the scheme of things, four years means I am still in the infant stages of understanding exactly what it is I do for a living.  Unfortunately, four years also means Hondo is at the halfway point of his working life.  So just when we are starting [...]

This post does not have so much to do with policing as it does knowing when to laugh at oneself.  In truth, there’s nothing in this post even remotely connected to policing, unless of course, you count the fact that our family does not have a pet hamster because my police dog would likely eat [...]