Internship

Mind my horrible selfies at the bottom of the page, but these were the photos that I was able to take this past Friday we were released. The top one the left  is when I was on a ride along and we had picked up a suspect. I wanted to take a photo in the cop car because the set up in the car is very interesting. The other photo on the right is me in front of the main entrance. The police department is located in the same building as the city hall in Dublin. It is a very nice building with different sections that you are able to access once you are in the building.
  Right now I am currently interning at the Dublin Police Department. It is located in Dublin and I go there every Monday and Thursday that we are released. I am usually there from 1:00 P.M. to 4:00 P.M., so I am able to experience a lot of things during that time. 

   There are a lot of positives to interning at a police department. I have been able to experience many things and I can't wait to learn more. My favorite part so far has been the ride a longs. Overall I have been on four and I have had a different officer each time. Having the different officers gave me a different perspective on how their methods during a patrol were different. There are two different teams when it comes to patrol officers. During the day there is a team patrolling west Dublin and there is one patrolling east. Then the two teams switch with the night shift. Some days can be slow, but whenever I am there, the Lieutenant says I am like there good luck charm. Many positive things  have happened when I was on a ride along. 

   This one time we got a call that this girl was trying to commit suicide and we had to track her car down. We had tracked it using on star and the patrol officer I was with went to the scene and noticed that she wasn't in her car. There were belongings in the car but she wasn't there so we had to check out the other shops and see if we could find her. After checking about three shops, we found her sitting down in a store looking very dazed. We were able to bring her out and take her to the hospital. We had basically saved her life. It is great to realize that you are able to help people and that is what I love to do. I feel very happy when people are okay and it makes me want to continue this line in work.

  In the future, I hope to be able to work with the fingerprints. I really want to see someone get there fingerprints taken. I think that would be so awesome. I have to say that I am very happy with my internship and I am very eager to learn more about my passion!