The Shit's Going to hit the fan tomorrow, but at least I know the Devil ain't ready for me !!! ;-) ( it was almost my EOW today)
Well I'm a bit banged up and have a headache the size of Prince Edward Island becuase of my airbag deploying, but I'm here, and so is a Winnipeg Police Service's youngster because of what I did.
I had court today in Selkirk, 30 kms. North of my detachment and seeing it was a sunny lazy kind of day where we were not freezing to death I decided to cut through the City on my way back to the detachment, and I'm really glad I did now. I lost one of my favorite squads for a few weeks though ( Echo 3) but I saved a life of a fellow Brother.
At 14:20 I was at a 4 way in the NorthWestern zone of the City when I noticed a WPS car had effected a traffic stop, and you could tell it was a rookie as his squad was pulled in front of the car he had stopped. Dumb move number 1!! He must have been running wants/warrant's from his portable as his head was down and he was looking at his cite book. not aware of the surroundings at all. The asshole he was running was on his cell and must have had this joker as a partner in another car, as even I could tell it was a drug stop, ( A res. car as we call them, all muddy, dirty, and defintely from an Indian reserve near by). Any how the young lad was making his way back to the stopped vehichle when a car out of basically nowhere, comes barreling down on him, no time for me jump out and pull my weapon so I had to make a split second decision and I pulled my car into the intersection and knocked car number 2 in the front avoiding the almost for sure fatal collision of young one and the car. It ended up in the ditch , I ended up 50 feet from the WPS cruiser, with my front end smashed in, radiator spewing steam to beat hell, my airbag deployed, and a real pounding headache. Young one was unscathed but poor old Echo 3 had seen better days.I have to appear before IA and Traffic Investigation unit tomorrow to give my accounting of the situation. Was I stupid for doing this and saving a WPS life while putting mine in danger?? Probably. Would I do it again?? ABSOLUTELY!! Will I catch shit from the upper echelon, possibly. But I guarantee you if it happened again I would do the same thing. Cars can be fixed and replaced, the life of a young officer can't, if it had been time for my EOW, so be it. But I would have died peacefully knowing that I let a youngster go on and carry on where I had left off. Hell I have had 50 good year's on planet Earth, this kid has his whole life ahead of him. Civilian's wouldn't understand what the Thin Blue Line means to us, it takes another Officer to fully appreciate it. That is what LEO Brotherhood is all about.
Thankfully I was able to exit Echo 3, draw my weapon, and make an arrest of the driver of car 2, who now faces the following:
1) Reckless endangerment
2) Careless use of a MV
3) Driving while suspended
4) Endangering with intent
5) Assault PC
6) Attempted vehicular homicide of a police officer
7) Evade arrest
8) Fail to obey stop sign
9) Fail to yeild
10) Fail to comply with police order
11) Possesion with intent to distribute
12) Possesion of a controlled substance ( Oxycontin)
He won't be making bail anytime soon.
The one positive outcome out of all of this: I HAVE A NEW FRIEND ON WPS!!
Work safe Brothers/Sisters of law enforcement, things can change in a blink of an eye. I hate to think what would have happened if I had decided to take the Perimeter Expressway. I hate to think of another LEO funeral!!!!
I had court today in Selkirk, 30 kms. North of my detachment and seeing it was a sunny lazy kind of day where we were not freezing to death I decided to cut through the City on my way back to the detachment, and I'm really glad I did now. I lost one of my favorite squads for a few weeks though ( Echo 3) but I saved a life of a fellow Brother.
At 14:20 I was at a 4 way in the NorthWestern zone of the City when I noticed a WPS car had effected a traffic stop, and you could tell it was a rookie as his squad was pulled in front of the car he had stopped. Dumb move number 1!! He must have been running wants/warrant's from his portable as his head was down and he was looking at his cite book. not aware of the surroundings at all. The asshole he was running was on his cell and must have had this joker as a partner in another car, as even I could tell it was a drug stop, ( A res. car as we call them, all muddy, dirty, and defintely from an Indian reserve near by). Any how the young lad was making his way back to the stopped vehichle when a car out of basically nowhere, comes barreling down on him, no time for me jump out and pull my weapon so I had to make a split second decision and I pulled my car into the intersection and knocked car number 2 in the front avoiding the almost for sure fatal collision of young one and the car. It ended up in the ditch , I ended up 50 feet from the WPS cruiser, with my front end smashed in, radiator spewing steam to beat hell, my airbag deployed, and a real pounding headache. Young one was unscathed but poor old Echo 3 had seen better days.I have to appear before IA and Traffic Investigation unit tomorrow to give my accounting of the situation. Was I stupid for doing this and saving a WPS life while putting mine in danger?? Probably. Would I do it again?? ABSOLUTELY!! Will I catch shit from the upper echelon, possibly. But I guarantee you if it happened again I would do the same thing. Cars can be fixed and replaced, the life of a young officer can't, if it had been time for my EOW, so be it. But I would have died peacefully knowing that I let a youngster go on and carry on where I had left off. Hell I have had 50 good year's on planet Earth, this kid has his whole life ahead of him. Civilian's wouldn't understand what the Thin Blue Line means to us, it takes another Officer to fully appreciate it. That is what LEO Brotherhood is all about.
Thankfully I was able to exit Echo 3, draw my weapon, and make an arrest of the driver of car 2, who now faces the following:
1) Reckless endangerment
2) Careless use of a MV
3) Driving while suspended
4) Endangering with intent
5) Assault PC
6) Attempted vehicular homicide of a police officer
7) Evade arrest
8) Fail to obey stop sign
9) Fail to yeild
10) Fail to comply with police order
11) Possesion with intent to distribute
12) Possesion of a controlled substance ( Oxycontin)
He won't be making bail anytime soon.
The one positive outcome out of all of this: I HAVE A NEW FRIEND ON WPS!!
Work safe Brothers/Sisters of law enforcement, things can change in a blink of an eye. I hate to think what would have happened if I had decided to take the Perimeter Expressway. I hate to think of another LEO funeral!!!!
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Job well done.