Badge 13406 who works for MY agency. The OFFICIAL California Highway Patrol website California Association of Highway Patrol Officers. (Emphasis is mine.) The California Highway Patrolmagazine ~ "Arresting Reading for 60 Years!" Washington State Patrol Florida Highway Patrol Florida Sheriff's Association Kansas Highway Patrol Delaware State Police URL! Kentucy State Police A recruiting site! Illinois State Police Maryland State Police Pacific Grove Police Department, California One of Monterey County Communications' user agencies. Marina Department of Public Safety, California Another County Comm 9-1-1 participant. San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department North Vancouver RCMP Lots of nice features, including 9-1-1 information. Canadian Police Information Centre Morris County Sheriff's Office, New Jersey Walsh Police Department, Colorado Visalia Police Department, California Kearney/Buffalo County Law Enforcement Center, Nebraska Crawford County Sheriff's Office, Michigan Orange County Sheriff's Office On-Line, Florida Brevard County Sheriff's Office, Florida Coos Bay Police Department, Oregon Snohomish County Deputy Sheriff's Association, Washington University of Alaska Fairbanks Police Department> Ringwood Police Department, New Jersey Somerville Police Department, New Jersey Wahkiahum County Sheriff's Department, Washington Labette County Sheriff's Office, Kansas New York City Police Department Los Angeles PD, California Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, California Dallas Police Department, Texas Battle Ground Police Department, Indiana New South Wales Police Service On-Line Bindal Sheriff Office, Norway In Norwegian or English! Hampton Police Department, Virginia Craig Police Department, Alaska San Gabriel Police Department, California There's even a page in Chinese!! Shelby County Sheriff's Department, Indiana St. Helena Police Department, California Kansas Law Enforcement Online Pennsylvania State Police Township of Derry Police Department, Pennsylvania University of Maine Dep't of Public Safety Rohnert Park Dep't of Public Safety, California University of Notre Dame Security/Police Ira Wilsker's Law Enforcement Sites on the Web Probably THE most comprehensive list! Community Policing Consortium
Spencer Boyce's Patch Page Spence works at the same Area Office as my Comm Center! PHIL KONSTANTIN Home Page Another CHP officer! Police Employment & Law Enforcement Jobs Sheriff Brass's Crime Prevention Unit Bolling's Police Pages Policing in Herfordshire Check out "The Police Officers Essential Dictionary." Ron MacKenzie's West Oz Police Page Law/EMS Links of Ohio SkyKing's Page Flemish Police Insignia Collectors Association The Law Enforcement Web Bryan Reid's Home Page A Host on AOL's Public Safety Center Sheps4Me's Home Page She's someone I'd love to meet for real; we exhange e-mail on AOL all the time... Michael McKenzie's Home Page The Sub Station for motorcycle enthusiasts... Rick Plato's Home Page Chief Gregory C. King, Udall Police Department, Kansas. CopTalk Police Badge Network's The Station House Randy Blizzard's Home Page Chip's Law Enforcement Page Det/Cst Rob Etter's Home Page NetDep's Home Page The Flash's Police Links Koeka Bolla - A Cyber Police Officer Patrolling the 'Net Rendrag's World Be sure to visit "The Patrol Office" Don Berry's Home Page A sergeant, now retired, but still in contact! ROCHCop's Home Page Dave's Police Page A2Hawkeye's Collector's Page The Bullet Trap
Now, in case you're wondering "What does this person really know about Law Enforcement, anyway?" here's my history: In 1973, I completed my Associate of Science degree in Administration of Justice, because I wanted to be a police officer. I was the first female candidate for deputy sheriff in Monterey County, back when it was very difficult to get hired (if you were a woman). The nice deputy running applicants through the physical agility tests informed me that the tests were specifically designed to be difficult for women. ("You didn't hear that from me," he said.) None of the five female applicants passed. However, about that same time, the state of California was looking to bolster its "quota" of female and minority correctional officers.....
In 1976, I managed to get hired as a correctional officer and work at Soledad Correctional Training Facility for a year. This was a terrible time, folks. The Affirmative Action program utilized (at that time, in the early '70s) was very, very unfair. Male officers detested us, the inmates filed law suit after law suit against the "cruel and unusual punishment" of being guarded by women, and the department made all sorts of concessions to hire, retain, and outright coddle female correctional officers. (I'm a woman; I can say this! It's true.) Things have changed a great deal, for the better, but back then, one had to be very resolute to withstand the harassment from all sides. The department paid lip-service to foster the appearance of "equality" but reality was a much uglier picture.
After I was targeted by one ranking individual who got an inmate to "confess" to having had sexual relations with me (yeah, right!!!) I was told to resign or be fired. To make a long story short, I took it to the State Personnel Board and WON, but decided it really wasn't in my best interests to stay working there. (The back pay and punitive damages award was quite nice, though.)
So, in 1977, I started as a 9-1-1 dispatcher in a consolidated Law Enforcement/Fire Service/EMS PSAP (Public Safety Answering Point). I really liked the work! It was for a great deal less pay, but I had a flair for it, and was able to develop strong contacts within the Law Enforcement community. Dispatchers took the calls and directly dispatched the personnel and equipment to those same calls, providing communications service to 11 Law Enforcement agencies, 27 Fire Districts, and 9 ambulance providers, out of two Dispatch Centers.
I was promoted to shift supervisor in 1979, and in 1988, to the position of Communications Supervisor over the entire Monterey Center. As the liaison between the Center and the agencies we served, I attended many meetings with the various agencies to make sure the dispatchers were providing the best service possible.
I re-married in 1990, and we re-located to Southern California in 1991. I had the unenviable position of having to start all over again as an "entry-level" dispatcher with the CHP. And, in 1994, I was able to transfer right back to the CHP Dispatch Center in Monterey county (without my husband). So, here I am again, now working exclusively for a single agency, not 11, or 27, or 9 of them. It has made life a great deal simpler, believe me! My contacts with Allied Agencies have been most beneficial in dealing with various situations related to major incidents where we've worked very closely with the many agencies around us.
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