Ride Along

Hello again,

In one of my previous posts, I touched on how patrol officers receive calls and enter reports. Well, due to my internship, I got to go on a ride along with a police officer this summer. Basically, a ride along is the ability to drive with a police officer as they respond to calls. Officers are restricted to certain districts. An emergency call is forwarded from the operator to the computer in the police car. The police officer then responds to the calls in the computer. After they finish up dealing with their call, they enter in quick notes about the crimes so they can record it into program A later.  A couple of calls we went on was a person running a red light and a person jumping bail. It was a pretty interesting night!