Wednesday, December 22, 2010

HOW TO TELL WHAT UNIT A COP WORKS IN

NARCOTICS

-Immediately grow facial hair, tell everybody you were ordered to.

-Start watching every episode of Monster Garage.

-Buy a biker wallet with a big chain.

-Make every case involve overtime $$$.

-Buy bunches of boats, RV's, and motorcycles with that overtime.

-Learn to play golf drunk.

SWAT TEAM

-Wear team T-shirts, Oakley sunglasses and boots everyday.

-Try to fit the word breach in to every conversation.

-Have a mirror handy to check hair, if you have hair.

-Never say hello to anyone who is not an operator, just practice your SWAT head nod.

-Subscribe to 'Soldier of Fortune' and 'Muscle and Fitness'.

-Learn to play golf wearing a gun.

COMMUNITY SERVICE UNIT

-Hate SWAT

-Work to make everybody love you.

-Paint your office in pastel colors.

-Think Feng Shui.

-Subscribe to 'Psychology Today'.

-Learn to play miniature golf.

MOTORCYCLE OFFICER

-Write tickets to EVERYBODY.

-Spend every weekend cleaning your bike and polishing boots.

-Annoy everyone on the radio calling out your stops.

-Talk about nothing but how many tickets you wrote in one day.

-Ride by a building with big windows to see your reflection.

-Golf is lame, motor rodeos are cool.

K-9 UNIT

-Become sadistic

-Show pictures of your latest dog bite

-Brag about your largest drug find

-Smell like a dog

-Workout 3 times a day

-Show off your bruises

ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT

-Three-hour lunches everyday, tell everybody it's a "meeting".

-Upgrade department cell phone every month.

-Tell everybody you are published in a national law enforcement magazine.

-Update your revenge list on a weekly basis.

-Golf Rules! Play lots of golf.

PATROL

-Has nerves of steel.

-In a terminal state of nausea from department politics.

-Inability to keep mouth shut.

-Has defining tastes in alcohol.

-Is respected by peers.

-Beats the crap out of his caddy on any bogeyed shot

FTO (FIELD TRAINING OFFICER)

-Automatically grasps the door handle until knuckles turn white when car is put in gear

-Considers a multiple-victim homicide in progress a “good training opportunity” and asks to take primary

-Considers less than three hours of OT to be a quiet day

DETECTIVE

-Come in at 0800

-"Breakfast" from 0815 to 1030

-Work from 1030 to Noon

-Noon to 1400 Work out and Lunch

-1400-1700 Sit in CID and talk about how many girlfriends you have and how the wife doesn't know. Plan your next RV, fishing, motorcycle trip.

PATROL SERGEANT

-Remembers very well "how we used to do do it."

-Always willing to tell his officers the above.

-Tries to fit the word "liability" into every sentence.

-Talks about "what he's hearing from upstairs."

TRAINEE

-Unable to grow facial hair.

-Watches every episode of Cops.

-Worships the ground the SWAT guys walk on.

-Arrives for work three hours early.

-Thinks the sergeant is thrilled to see him.

-Won't drink on the golf course because it violates the open container ordinance.

FEDS

-Shave head, and grow goatee (unless you want to be a management weenie, then make sure you are clean shaven, with short almost military style haircut).

-Wear 5.11 pants, and polo with agency logo (unless you want to be a management weenie, then make sure you always have a shirt and pants to which a jacket and tie can be quickly added for when the boss might be around).

-Arrive at work at 8AM, spend one hour answering useless emails, and 30 minutes checking your retirement investments. Then go with another agent to Starbucks "to discuss your a new case."

-After participating in your first warrant service (as outside cover) make plans to join the agency SRT, SWAT, etc., to "properly utilize your superior tactical skills."

-After doing your first buy bust, immediately begin asking the boss about "long term undercover" jobs.

-Refuse to play golf with the local cops.

NEW CORRECTIONAL OFFICER

-Show up for work 15 minutes early

-Buy only the best ink pens (Pilot G-2)

-Wear T-Shirts of your "dream department" under your uniform

-Wear a full duty belt of gear even though you have to remove everything when you arrive at the facility

-Become friends with every local police officer

COURT BAILIFF

-Say you don’t want to work patrol anyway, but monitor dispatch channel while in courtroom

-Have jail and courthouse cafeteria menus memorized

-Have seriously thought of entering law school after sitting through three jury trials

-Consider the Public Defenders’ Christmas party the high point of the year

DEFENSIVE TACTICS INSTRUCTOR

-Starts stretching before making arrest

-Can spend hours debating the advantages of ASP vs. straight stick

-Has spent more than $50 on a wood baton

-Giggles when a suspect starts to resist


(Submitted by a Houston police sergeant.)

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