[Scan-DC] Reserve Officers in the DC area

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I helped to teach a Standardized Field Sobriety Testing Instructor's Class at the MPDC Academy in Blue Plains this past December.  In the class was a DC Reserve Officer Sergeant.  He was most certainly armed, and in full uniform.  He had been doing it for 20+ years.  Nice guy.

Frank Carson

> On Apr 14, 2015, at 19:55, Dewey <dewey3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Ed,
> 
> I don't know if they're still arming the reserves or not.  I don't **think**
> they ever rescinded the ability, but I do know that at one time it was an
> on/off event.  Thinking about you're your rant, maybe this is why DC wasn't
> touched upon... they (DC) may have given 5 different answers to 3 different
> questions :)
> 
> Dewey
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scan-DC [mailto:scan-dc-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Ed
> Tobias
> Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 17:41
> To: Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [Scan-DC] Reserve Officers in the DC area
> 
> This is off-topic but this old news guy needs to vent to the other newsies
> on this list.
> 
> WRC-TV's I-Team, trying to localize the story of the Reserve Sheriff's
> Deputy who went for his taser and, instead, pulled his gun, didn't
> investigate enough.  The story in the 5pm cast looked at Montgomery and PG
> Counties, which don't use reserves, and at Anne Arundle and Howard which do,
> but they're, apparently, unarmed.  But NO mention of DC which, last I knew,
> not only uses reserves but a Category 1 MPDC Reserve can be armed.
> 
> How can a DC television station not include the DC Police in its
> "investigation," especially since MPDC reserves can be armed (or, so says
> the MPDC web site.  Dewey, still true?)
> 
> Who's producing this stuff?
> 
> Please forgive the rant.
> 
> Ed
> 
> Sent from my iPad
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