A LEO in full uniform required to carry a rifle bag/box?
That doesn't make any sense at all.
Should a LEO in uniform keep his taser in a box or his duty pistol in a case?
If he was out of uniform in civ clothing yeah definitely, while in full uniform, on or off duty, there is no reason for any type of rifle case when moving a rifle.
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Last edited by Horseman; 08-31-2019 at 09:24 PM.
Unless one exercises pretty high level PERSEC. I suspect most neighbors will pretty quickly learn you're the police, even if you don't wear a uniform, carry a long gun to and from the house. or have a takehome cruiser.
I took a retirement job at a community college where the campus security supervisor and the new overall security director hope to turn the "Public Safety Division" into a campus police force. I was encouraged at a training class on the campus alert system in which reports of armed subjects were discussed. The director was quick to point out that we didn't want to send out alert for off-duty police officers. I suspect he remembers a recent bruhaha in F.C. where panic ensued over an off-duty officer's (gasp!) holster.
{erhaps there is sp,ehope for this place.
I am flabberghasted by the "security" types that I have to work with frequently. They are frequently young college students away from home for the first time. They don't think clearly often. Just this week I was working with a young man who was talking to me for almost 10 minutes when he remembered he needed to document some information for the call. This was not the first time I worked with this young man, and he seemed genuinely surprised when he asked my name and rank, and I pointed out that both of those bits of information are embroidered in gold thread on the front of my uniform blouse in 3/4 inch letters.
These are the same guys that find a discarded cartridge on the ground and demand an officer to come and collect it. Or follow a trespasser for six blocks after they leave the property while on the phone with dispatch so we can find the guy that is no longer trespassing. Or demands we come and take an airsoft pistol for safekeeping.
Sorry for the drift.
As for thie call...there seemed to be a lack of thinking going on. The caller communicating that it might be a police officer should have been in the call for the dispatcher, field officers, supervisors, and eventually incident commander to be able to review and slow the roll. Not not respond, but respond thoughtfully.
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