Basketball games make for a long day. Went to work at 0700, got home at 2130 local. Not a bad day, but certainly a long one. My boots are off, my uniform is ready for the morrow and I've poured myself a drink. The alarm clock will go off in seven hours, so I've got to sleep fast.
Just another day for a school-house cop. I think I'll upgrade my resume and go talk to the incoming sheriff. I'm about ready to graduate from the school-house beat.
careful what you wish for pawpaw
ReplyDeleteYou want to go back to the mean streets? There's a point when we are just too old for that young cop's game, PawPaw.
ReplyDeleteI wanted one more slice of beat work at the end of my patrol career, so I took the Courthouse complex beat. There were two of us and a Sergeant. We served paper in the Courthouse and Downtown jail, patrolled the hallways, took assault reports in the Jail, did investigative and arrest work for the Judges (45 of them) as Marshals, and did the occasional case at the Central Library 6 blocks away.
The days were full, I worked 8 hours a day, home every night, weekends off, had the only footbeat in the SO...it was ideal. Climbing all the stairs (on a hot response, you could do 5 floors on foot faster than the elevator) in the 8-floor courthouse kept me uber-fit, and I made more felony arrests of all types than any other patrol cop. Some shifts, my warrant arrests beat out all the District Patrol officers combined.
No, I didn't have to do corrections work. We three Enforcement Deputies worked alongside 30 or so Corrections Deputies and about 20 Sheriff's Security Agents (door security) but we did separate work.
Courthouse work. You might like it, PawPaw.
Oh no, say it ain't so. However, with 2 teens in the house, I can understand how ramroddin' hundreds of them each day will wear a body down.
ReplyDeleteOne of our teens is at your school-house, so on behalf of all the Sheriff's constituents that are parents, please know what you and your colleagues do to keep our kids safe is much appreciated.
And if you do decide to take the upgrade, you have my best wishes and eternal appreciation for the service you provide.
Naw, Rivrdog, I don't have blue-light fever. I got over that a long time ago. However, I am a problem-solver, trained to handle all manner of problem and I'm a damned fine small unit leader. Staff work, I know it backwards and forwards. Maybe the Sheriff needs somebody like that. We'll talk about it.
ReplyDeleteOldlurker - Thanks for the kind words.
I'd hate to see you leave the SRO beat. You've got more "horse sense" when dealing with kids than a lot of the LEOs out there.
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