Today has been the first vocational day. I spent an hour this morning in District Court with my host D Dee Shaw & Jenny Pitts (who is running for city attourney in Tuesdays elections). The court was very different, they have a video link between the court & the jail to save having to transport people to & from the county jail.
I then move to the new Police Department in Elizabethtown, this is the County Police. They wear blue uniforms but no stab vests & all carry guns. I spent some time with dispatch, they still use CAD, a very old system that we used in Nottinghamshire Police between 15 & 20 years ago. We also had a tour of the new state of the art police station.
Lunch at the Chamber of Commerce.
After Lunch I went back to EPD & took a 'ride' with a EPD officer over to the 911 centre. Here they take calls for Police, Fire Dept & Amb, very different to back home.
The highlight of the day was the hour & half spent with a Kentucky State Police Officer (KSP). We went out on patrol, went to a couple of incidents & stopped a vehicle on the Blue Grass highway. The most intriguing thing that I learnt today was that they take their police cars home at night, amazing. I learnt loads today. I thought that it would be different & I didn't for one minute imagine how different.
Laura - 13th May
Thursday, 13 May 2010
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