This is the Breathalyzer Room! I hope you couldn't guess it, and if so......shame on you! If you look very carefully, the tube on the far left is what you breath into to see your BAC(Blood Alcohol Content) The Officer does the rest of the work besides you answer some of his questions.
You're now looking into a 2002 Crown Victoria. The black cord
running to the top of the dashboard goes to the camera inside the car.
The camera can zoom in VERY good! I used to play with the camera
all the time to spy in the car that was infront of us.
This is Jessica and Jennifer. The guys out on the road really
rely on the dispatchers to tell them what they are getting ready to face.
The 2 computer monitors that are behind Jessica (on the left) are the DCI(Division
of Criminal Investigation) Computers.
Below is the Chief and one of the "Patrolmen." Sorry
girls, both of them are married! The Cheif is a really funny
guy but he's always busy! The "Patrolmen" on the right is pretty
funny. I always laughed and carried on jokes while riding with the
Patrolman. I've seen a girl that was getting an Underage-Drinking
Ticket go from tears running down her face to her laughing until she could
hardly breath because the patrolman made her realize the brighter side
of it. Don't get me wrong, there are other nice officers there but
I only had one day to take pictures and they weren't working at the time.
Over all, my internship taught me a lot of things that cops do go through. They get calls from taking a puppy out of an old lady's yard, changing a woman's water bottle(those big ones), to responding to wrecks, fights, fires, domestic disturbances and more. I'm limited to what I can tell the world about calls we responded to, but I can tell you some things though.
The funniest call I went on was when a Honda Civic got stuck on the beach. The Cop asked the guy how many Honda Civics he seen driving on the beach during the day. He said "none, but I seen some trucks".
Another call, we responded to a parking lot because someone called in a fight in the parking lot involving a bat. While trying to get there, we had to let a Careless and Wreckless driver go because the fight was more important, then we almost got into a head on collision with a girl I worked with at the beachwear store. When we arrived in the parking lot, there was no fight. We talked to the caller and she said a little boy was running around with Duct Tape wrapped around him saying he had been beaten. Come to find out, the little boy had disappeared but it was all a prank the little kid started that almost got some people hurt.
My nickname with some of the cops is "Barney Fife Wanna-Be". A woman was a couple sheets in the wind, refused a breathalyzer, started yelling, cussing and calling names. Everythign she said was on tape and it hurt her badly in court! "Barney Fife Wanna-Be", "Doughnut Boy", and "Officer Do-It-Right" was just some of the names she called, not to mention every cuss word in the book.
One rainy night, we clocked a guy doing 85mph. We thought the radar messed up because we didn't belive the car was going that fast. As the car approached us, we KNEW it was doing it. I think I was glued to the back of the seat for going so fast to try to catch up with the guy. He ended up being drunk also.
The saddest call I ever went on was to a domestic disturbance. A couple beat fought eachother to the point their eyes were black and blue. Both of their faces had cuts and scratches all over them. On certain calls, I have to sit in the car so I dont' get injured. I had to sit in the car on that call. When the lady got outside, she looked at me and asked who I was, she thought I was the cops lover/girlfriend/wife.
Cops have a lot of excitement, but they also have a lot of boring times
that they ride around trying to catch stupid people doing stupid things.
Like one of them told me, "It's 5 minutes of excitement and a couple hours
of borem."
