ONEEYEDMIC

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    Police Employment Opportunities

    The Town of Smithfield is located in Johnston County, North Carolina. Smithfield is a community with a population of approximately 12,500. The department's 43 full-time sworn and four full-time civilian employees service an area of about 12 square miles. This agency actively participates in community-oriented policing and strives to recruit and hire individuals who will be dedicated to making Smithfield a better place to live, work and play.

    The Smithfield Police Department, in conjunction with the Town of Smithfield Human Resources Department, advertises and actively recruits all sworn vacancies. The starting salary is currently $31,326.36 with a 5% raise after the successful completion of a six-month probationary period. Merit raises are available subject to council approval of funding. In addition, the department offers a Career Ladder program that allows officers to advance to Police Officer II and Master Police Officer. There is a 5% increase associated with each of these advancements. Officers with at least five years of previous law enforcement experience can accelerate through this program

    Police Patrol Operations and Teams

    The Patrol Division of the Smithfield Police Department is the larger of the two divisions and is made up of the uniformed officers in the department. These officers are the first responders to calls for police services and are the personnel who are foremost in the public eye. These officers are tasked with many duties, including responding to all calls for police service, the investigation of all criminal activity, checking on suspicious people and activity, investigating traffic accidents, serving warrants, developing strategies for dealing with neighborhood quality of life issues, and enforcing violations of law.

    The Smithfield Police Department’s Patrol Division is comprised of four patrol teams. Each team is made up of a lieutenant, a sergeant, and five patrol officers. These teams work 12 hour shifts and rotate from working days to nights every two weeks. This schedule allows the department to provide comprehensive and responsive police services 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

    In addition to the four patrol teams, the Patrol Division has other specific functions and duties that are carried out by personnel who have other full-time duties and perform these functions on a part-time basis. Included in these functions are a criminal interdiction team, certified training instructors and community policing officers.

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    Police Employment Opportunities

    The Town of Smithfield is located in Johnston County, North Carolina. Smithfield is a community with a population of approximately 12,500. The department's 43 full-time sworn and four full-time civilian employees service an area of about 12 square miles. This agency actively participates in community-oriented policing and strives to recruit and hire individuals who will be dedicated to making Smithfield a better place to live, work and play.

    The Smithfield Police Department, in conjunction with the Town of Smithfield Human Resources Department, advertises and actively recruits all sworn vacancies. The starting salary is currently $31,326.36 with a 5% raise after the successful completion of a six-month probationary period. Merit raises are available subject to council approval of funding. In addition, the department offers a Career Ladder program that allows officers to advance to Police Officer II and Master Police Officer. There is a 5% increase associated with each of these advancements. Officers with at least five years of previous law enforcement experience can accelerate through this program

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    Believe me, I am all for people not calling the PD, Fire, or AMB of nonsense calls. I may even suggest at times that a PT be transported by a family memeber. But people understand and often say, "Won't we get seen faster if we go by ambulance?" I advise them that this is not always the case!

    There are very few excuses I will except for a delay, especially when I am on scene trying to deal with a Patient or the Patient's family! There are some good VAC's out there that have their stuff together and then there are some that should just be absorbed by other Agencies!

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    I've never understood when police fire or EMS departments attempt to hold the municipality hostage by not doing their sworn duty. There has to be a better way to persuade them or save money. Better to lay off one officer than not respond to call. In fact, it appears to me the Chief would be a good place to start.

    Being a boss when severe budget cuts come down has to be one of the most challenging times in anyone's professional life. Having to make huge staffing cuts, brown out companies or reducing minimum staffing hurts everyone involved, the citizens, the firefighters and the officers all the way to the top. Another thing I don't understand is the Chief's that flat out quit. I can see taking a hard stand, but getting yourself fired or quitting only leaves an opening for the same difficult position. Then what happens, they push someone from the inside up and force his/her into the same corner or hire an outsider to come make the cuts with no true knowledge of the particular department.

    Not that I agree with not responding to calls, but don't Government's do this when they are attempting to balance a budget? The Town should prob cut out on other nonsense projects to allow the PD to have the gas!

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    The band-aid is already in place. Whether it takes 5 or 25 minutes to get an ambulance on scene do the agencies suffer? There's already a cop or 4 and the medic on scene. The patient, family, and any witnesses see a very fast and substantial response and assume that all is well. Kind of like a big red fire truck with one firefighter.

    You weren't serious with this were you? I guess you haven't been on many calls waiting with the family whether ALS or BLS waiting for an ambulance to get there. Not saying it happens all the time, but I get tired of saying, "well they are volunteers and it takes time to get here". That is just BS! Patients and their families don't understand the concept of time when someone they love is hurt or sick. All they want is their loved ones to get to the hospital, and the only way that happens, is if AN AMBULANCE IS ON SCENE!

    I am gonna stop now because I see this getting me HOT!

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    BITD, I had the great pleasure of doing the first ALS call in the Northern West area when it was Metro/Transcare's contract. I can't remember how long it was before 45-M2 was in service, but I can tell you how crazy the response times were, especially from NWHMC. Most of the time it was an intercept & the fly car stayed on scene. Alot has changed since then. Glad to see 3 fly cars up there.

    Someone made the point of getting the fly car to the ER. It's nice when the VAC's have enough personal to take the fly car, but I have heard on numerous occasions either 60 control or the VAC's directly ask if the call was gonna be ALS or BLS to the medic on scene or even ask if the medic could transport the call regardless. That totally defeats the purpose.

    I personally like the RPS system with two medics and 2 sets of equipment!

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    My Grandmother is 91 & has been swearing by these predictions forever! I will take rain and mild weather any day!

    Farmers Almanac

    For the winter of 2011–12, the Farmers’ Almanac is forecasting “clime and punishment,” a season of unusually cold and stormy weather. For some parts of the country, that means a frigid climate; while for others, it will mean lots of rain and snow.

    The upcoming winter looks to be cold to very cold for the Northern Plains, parts of the Northern Rockies, and the western Great Lakes. In contrast, above-normal temperatures are expected across most of the southern and eastern U.S. Near-normal temperatures are expected in the Midwest and Far West, and in southern

    Florida.

    A very active storm track will bring much heavier-than-normal precipitation from the Southern Plains through Tennessee into Ohio, the Great Lakes, and the Northeast. Because of above normal temperatures, much of the precipitation will likely be rain or mixed precipitation, although, during February, some potent East Coast storms could leave heavy snow, albeit of a wet and slushy consistency.

    An active Pacific Storm track will guide storm systems into the Pacific Northwest, giving it a wetter-than-normal winter.

    Drier-than-normal weather will occur in the Southwest and Southeast corners of the nation.

    To see a more detailed long-range forecast for your area, pick up a copy of the 2012 Farmers’ Almanac today!

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    Journal News

    CROTON-ON-HUDSON — When the call for help came into the Croton ambulance squad time and again during much of this year, no one was there to respond.

    As volunteer ambulance members were paged and did not respond within nine minutes, due to shortages in staffing that have taken their toll on scores of suburban communities around the region, the call was picked up by a neighboring community, in most cases the Ossining volunteer ambulance squad.

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    The Westchester County Police Academy has had one of these for years - probably 10 or more. Every cop trained by the academy has been through this simulator and through a multitude of training simulations including simunitions where "rounds" are actually exchanged.

    It is a very useful piece of equipment and has a real value in training tactics, decision making, and other things that simply can't be taught in the classroom.

    They didn't use or have it in 2001! As 1 of our give back days, we do a live Simmunitions training(which I was so,so lucky to do last night--sarcasm) with different scenarios as if we were doing real calls at work. Most of the time we try and get male/female participants who we don't know to make it as real as possible. I did try the old F.A.T.S system at the West PA back in 1999 or 2000. It was pretty good, but more realistic when there are simmunitions being fired at you. We have added On/off Duty PD confrontations. Very interesting how things work out!

  23. Posted · Edited by ONEEYEDMIC

    After taking The Pepperball Instructor course I think every PD should have them because of this incident and the incident at Playland. I can guarantee that all involved would have quickly complied if the were either hit of in the general area of where the balls exploded. Good for long range as to not put the good guys in harms way!

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    Can any of the LEO's explain what, if any, additional powers you are given under state law (or local laws, if applicable)?

    On the same note: When the politicians declare a state of emergency and/or mandatory evacuations, what law or law allows you to actually remove someone from their property, or is it just a great sound bite for the politician?

    I would probably say Obstruction of Governmental Administration. All parties involved would have to be charged on a different date due to the on going crisis! Not sure if this is correct or not though!