Archive for March, 2007
Friday, March 30th, 2007
Academy Week 6
Well this was another ‘academic’ week. We started off with one of my favorite instructors (from my home town) learning Motor Vehicle law. I found this an interesting day personally, though a lot of our class was bored with an entire day dedicated to one topic. But I learned a lot. For instance, according […]
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Friday, March 23rd, 2007
Academy Week 5
Well, not much to say about week five. Literally an entire week of academics. We spent the first day on Crimes Against Children. We spent the next 3 days studying searching […]
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Friday, March 16th, 2007
Academy Week 4
And now the hardest week of my life. Range week. It turns out that the firing range we use is three counties over from my own. It takes me about an hour and a half one way. Once there I have to drive through what seems like everlasting dirt/mud roads and cow pastures. The […]
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Friday, March 9th, 2007
Academy Week 3
Well this week was interesting for sure. We started out with Crime Victims Compensation and Mental Health. I doubt I need to explain what those are about. But then we had our first taste of DT (Defensive Tactics) and it was not the slightest bit fun. We spent the […]
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Friday, March 2nd, 2007
Academy Week 2
We started this week off with a police officer’s biggest responsibility … report writing. For every 12 hours of work, there’s many hours of paper work. At the end of day one we had to write our very own police report. It was extremely difficult to remember all the details of the “crime” as […]
