[ScanIndiana] Happy Holidays

[David Bailey]

hhhmmmmm.....think my comment about stopping the Santa reports was taken
wrong. I love the reports but, as a retired Navy cop and a current Security
Officer --- Officer Safety Will ALWAYS Come First...Remember that this has
not been the best week for the guys and gals of the thin blue line...Female
Officer being shot and a Claremont Officer hitting the broadside of a barn
the hard way. Channel 8 news just showed a Tippecanoe County K9 unit that is
going to need some body work (Deputy and puppy are ok)...When needed, I wear
a morning band over my shield...when other security personnel ask me about
it, I try to explain it to them, but some just don't get it...It's Christmas
and unlike the bank people, some of us have to work the holidays...Cops,
EMS, Security, News, Fire, Radio, even Ham radio when things are bad, work
24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year. We do what we can to make
things safer and better for others. Not expecting or looking for Thank You
but appreciate it when they come...So to those on the front line on the home
front, Thank you and Merry Christmas...

----- Original Message -----
From: "DeLong" <DeLong@surf-ici.com>
To: <scanindiana@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, December 25, 2002 17:05
Subject: Re: [ScanIndiana] Happy Holidays


> > Happy Holidays to all, I have only one comment, as a former Police
Officer on
> > the street if a Shift Supervisor gives you a direct order to
discountinue the
> > communications that was taking place, by Standard Operating Procedure in
> > written form, this is due to conditions, things that are happing that
are a
> > Officer Safety rather than dispatching as to where Santa Claus is, I
> > understand about Christmas and we have children listening to MECA but
did you
> > ever consider that the officers on the street have children at home and
if
> > they do not hear as to who, what, when. where and how these officers
might not
> > come home to there familys to spend the holiday .Something to think
about.Tim
> > DeLong W9NES, Former Police Officer,WRTV Channel 6 News Weekend
Assignment
> > Editor.