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From the new CAD:
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To backfill for missions, Afternoons is hiring
three to four officers a day to make minimums all this week.
Today, my 84 year old neighbor
called to report her car
stolen from a street downtown.
I drove to where she had thought
she’d parked it and searched,
block by block, until I found it:
twelve blocks south
and one to the east.
I called her daughter.
She retrieved the car.
Last night, the department changed
CAD systems from txMessenger to Versaterm.
It is not going to be an easy transition.
I called the help line seven times.
Sitting at a 4-way,
watching the rain,
I spot a van.
It rolls the stop.
The driver stares,
givin’ me the stink-eye.
A minute later, he’s back.
He rolls it again. Glares.
He has got my attention.
I put the prowler in drive
and pull him over
in the next block.
He has no insurance.
He’s ‘just looking for a parking spot
in front of the all night hotcake place.’
He asks, “Can you give me a break?”
I hook his ride.
Rule:
A prisoner can never be searched too many times.
No matter how many officers have touched a custody, before putting a prisoner in a prowler, before a transport or placing a subject in a holding cell, search him again.
The Director of Services came to roll call.
He explained the department hopes
to re-open South in the next five years.
Two hours into the shift,
my cell rings.
“He’s here.”
I’ll be there in a few.
Grumpy and Skins
come along to play.
Skins takes the back.
Grumpy and I walk up.
The girlfriend let’s us in.
“He’s in the basement.”
We snatch up a man with a want
without a problem.
