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Admin OptionsEdit Post Add Tags Cancel Delete Post Manage Blog GENERAL PATROL TIPS I'm going to write this column in a generally amusing way as I know from experience that when you fail to keep a recruit or rookie's attention, their memory retention goes from 10 to 0 in no time flat!!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Carefully choreograph your traffic stops as much as possible to minimize danger. If patience is the virtue by which police are going to be evaluated in the hereafter, I fear for their well-being. Some cops are in such a rush to get a car stopped that they'll let the driver they're attempting to detain dictate where the traffic stop will take place. Worse, they'll allow suspects to choreograph what happens once the cars have stopped. Bad Location Given the opportunity, suspects will lead you as far off the beaten path as possible, or at least to a location that provides them a situational advantage. Example: ...

Well Fresh Meat and myself have successfully made it through another day and at least it was filled with my shouting, but mind you if a person could laugh their ass off today would have been that kind of day. Well thank the heaven's above that in the first 2 hours of the shift we didn't have to answer any gun calls, or 11-99's, as Fresh Meat found out about 120 kms. from the station house, ( I have a 520 km. square radius patrol area), that he accidently left his gun in the weapon's locker,he made sure he had a fresh cite book, his coffee, a fully chrged portable radio in case the squads crapped out, his OC spray,baton, but not his weapon!! Needless to say I had to radio dispatch to put us out of service as we were returning to the station to "retrieve" an item left behind. When arriving there was no explanation needed as his weapon's locker was the only one that had the door closed and locked on it with a note in bold bright red letters " FORGET SO...