Tuesday April 10 !

Co op was interesting today, we got away from the teaching thing, well at least for a little while. What Cindy did today was inform me a little bit about certain policies the police officers had to abide to. For example I was wondering if officers were allowed to have any peircings, turns out they are not permited, however if you do they must be covered. Cindy also covered certain aspects about a warrant and the differences between them. She talked about how there is one warrant that is specifically used for an arrest and how there are ones that are in place for say perhaps something similar to a wanted listing. Then later on, Mary and Cindy informed me about pardons. Pardons are used only if crimes are minor, for instance if someone stole a lipstick from a store when they were fifteen and were now twenty six and wanted a clean record they can apply for a pardon. What this does is clean out there criminal record, no one is able to access these records not even a judge or police officer for the use of referencing. However there are only few instances where a pardoned may not be used, exempt from these situations would be murders, sexual assaults, driving under the influence i.e. I have to say it was interesting to learn about things that I would have never known before... it was nice not teaching a class all day. But ... I did have to put all the bikes away, Dan, the moning co op student cleaned all the bikes , so that left me to put all the bikes away. We are doing this to prepare for the bike safety program which begins in 3 weeks !! Wow , that is approaching fast.

I also talked with Mary again. As always she gave me advice that would greatly benefit me. She told me that being a police officer meant that you are a cop 24/7 , regardless of the fact that you might be on duty or off duty. They have a responsibility. An example she used was going out clubbing or to a bar. You cannot use you badge to get into a club , because then you are using the fact that you are a police officer to the best of your advantage. As well as say a fight were to break out and they knew you were a cop and you did nothing, your putting yourself and you career at jeopardy. So I did learn today... that you kind of have to let go of that crazy life style one would have or you got to say "you know what I am going to keep what I do to myself to benefit me" . Know I understand why they like to hire older and more mature individuals .I think Iwill take what I learned to the future with me !

future officer alav !