be welcome to another edition to the richmond police beat probably been six seven weeks since we last spoke one of the things i want to talk to today about you might notice the new attire i mean we have converted from the inner bulletproof vests to the outer wear bulletproof vest and we've done that basically for number one for medical reasons and comfort reasons one of the things that we found is in myself included that that the officers are suffering lower back pain and nationwide the studies have shown that the number two occupation with back issues is police  officers that's followed by truck drivers long distance truck drivers and speaking with the chiropractors and the doctors as been national studies that we have to get this weight that we've been carrying on our gun belts the twenty five the sometimes thirty pounds almost off our hips and up on our shoulders it's virtually the same vast the inserts of the same vest it's just now that the things are attached to the divest itself you'll notice the everything's attached to the belts other than the gun itself and what this does is it gets everything up on the shoulders and off the hips the guys like i'm there a lot more comfortable especially when they come in the office they don't have that we were wearing but the but the fact is it's just a lot more comfortable doesn't push down when you're in a cruiser with the old style best that was always at the bottom of the vest with meet the gun belt when you're in a car constantly pushing on your lower back and causing issues which i can attest to after doing this for over thirty seven years some mornings i have to get that shower and stretch a few times before i can reach touch my toes so this is we've converted we've been into a now about well probably four weeks and most people haven't even noticed them and until i pointed out you know what do you think and no didn't even notice because it kind of blends and other than it does say police on the back which than normal i was sure didn't have but you know it's just it's not a bad thing that were highly visible now so it's the last time we taught we've been really busy and we've handled a lot of cases matter of fact we've handled over three hundred cases and so us time we talked we made a dozen dui arrests in that short period of time and the one concerning part about this either that doesn't dui arrests for them or for operating under the influence of drugs and three of those were operating under the influence of prescription drugs you know most of the medication you get in for scription it tells you how much you can take and you know that it may cause certain symptoms that where you shouldn't operate a car and i'll just give you one example back on august eighth at seven ten in the evening so it's early we were dispatch one of my officers was dispatched to the richmond mobile this gentleman had driven up to the mobile was so impaired by the three different kinds of medications it was on it actually fell out of the car when he got out of it out of it he couldn't walk into the story crawled into the store to get the key to go to use the bathroom course they were concerned they called us and when my office arrived he was crawling back to his car to get back into it to drive away he was on a combination of prescription painkillers value and he was on morphine and he was on one other thing that i don't recall the problem was his as the two month supply of  painkillers which was sixty tablets and he had gotten two days before there was only two left out of sixty he had used fifty eight and two days this is becoming a problem in this state and county and we had another one just recently were one of my officers stop a car with no lights on the back at all about two o'clock in the morning and it was a nineteen year old and he was a he was so stone on marijuana he didn't know even know how to roll the window down he was very compliant but you know he was taken into custody and taken to the local emergency room where the blood was drawn and woman had four kids in the car i think they're ranged in age from two to twelve and she was on drugs and so it was also so out of it that we ended up taking her into custody processing her good taking her the emergency room getting a blood draw get the d r which is a direct drug recognition expert on scene to show that she was impaired and then we ended up having to call which is the department of children and families because she was so bad and so out of it that we had to get the kids placed into state custody this whole thing took about six seven hours the officer still has to go time that they've had involvement with this woman and here again it was drugs we had another one was a female one of my guys got called to an accident and huntington road woman was coming back from a  wedding was obviously intoxicated the kids were age seven and twelve and she lost control in the corner and with the two kids in a car who weren't properly restrained like when they were hurt and you know wrecked the car she was also process and charged with child endangerment so as they got to you know it's not just themselves these people that are operating on our public highways and influence either alcohol or drugs you know that they get to be in you know take in regard the safety of the others out there are any passengers would especially children that they may have in their car is becoming more and more of a problem it's very time consuming when we have process someone for operating an influence of drugs it's averaging about six hours right now we have to try to get a d r e which is like you said the drug recognition expert there are only twenty eight officers in the state currently that are certified that  it's a very time consuming training most of the training is done a lot of it's done either in the last vegas or out in california where they'll send the officers once they go through the classroom training they'll send them out there for like a week and they work in the jails and you know screen prisoners that are coming in there to under the influence of drugs so they've actually got real  life people that they're there training on that's why there's only twenty eight in the state right now we need probably two or three times that many and one of the ones we just got with the one i just spoke to about with marijuana we couldn't get deal so there was none available in the entire state that we could get close by so we still charged them we just won't have that drug recognition expert to be able to go to court and testify up this person was under the influence of you know depressant stimulants or whatever happens to be a lot of times these guys are so good at this they can actually tell us what drugs are on based on their because they do everything they take their blood pressure and you know the people reactions and same thing we do with we don't take blood pressure on a standard dui but you know looking at pupils and reaction time for you know the light and the stimulus that we put in there ha followed or as i gaze the stag with which is also an eye test it's just it's so much more involved and it's becoming a bigger and bigger problem in this state i mean here we've got four drugs and not alcohol i'll call still the number one problem but drugs are becoming more and more of a problem with hannah quite a bit of stuff you know we've gotten called  also deal with the mentally disturbed we got called officer linda moved myself to the mobile again and the dispatch center the state police dispatch i was getting the nine one one tax that this woman wanted to commit suicide she ended up being that the mobile off the interstate and we both proceeded to the scene and the woman was with her caretaker knew nothing about this was stopping at the mobile simple letter to use to use the bathroom and we found out that this woman is on probation and is prohibited from calling first responders be it fire rescue or police because she makes a habit of doing this she's on probation or parole i can't tell you why she does this you just biles these bogus complaints she's not allowed by court order to contact mercy services only but i don't think she was there two hours and she was out i know she was in court today is later because i was in court for something else for a deposition and i happened to see or there so they've actually transferred her case back down to b where she's from to let probation and parole deal with her down there we had an incident done the second of september at the lower gorge which involved fire departments from richmond and bolt and in richmond rescue myself and actually a member of cole just to talk rescue showed up of this man that was supposed to be maybe suffering he stroked or something down at the lower gorge which is those of you that bend down the lower gorges rather steep while you get down there turns out the guy you've been reported missing from huntington had been sober apparently for ten years and decided to go on a two day bender down at the lower gorge next to the water and was so highly intoxicated that he needed help getting back up and so we got the help and his intoxication level was so high in any event in the water for either in it or next to it for at least two days down there that we had richmond rescue transport him to the emergency room now his b a c was over to something and just to get him evaluated in there for hypothermia and anything else that may be hidden by his alcohol consumption for he had gone through we i think there was like over a dozen cases of beer in a two day period that he'd gone through and all of it was gone except for three bottles all over a breakup from girlfriend linda moved out with a forgery which is kind of unique for us this one you know he took a case through one of the local businesses of a check you know that when it came back from the bank basically had no accounts anywhere tracking it down it turns out that the checking account was from a deceased male from florida woman that i think for a couple years now and this person who was a heroin addict was using his this power get the checkbook we don't know passing checks we had you know the case here there was no worse cases and milton the gentleman was from northern franklin county there was cases of in new hampshire cases in maine and brett working with a detective out of milton was able to locate this guy and he finally fessed up although it has been writing these bogus checks and either buying property and selling it or not property or land but property like you know tools and wooden stuff like that reselling it all supporters heroin addiction so he was charged with forgery on that by us and by built in p d f i'm not sure everything was you know notified in new hampshire and maine and what they're going to do with i'm not sure yet we also officer mark kelly myself back in august twenty first got a call on from a mother who had a seven year old attacking her with a butcher knife and we proceed to the scene and sure enough the officer martello got there first then the mother with her seven week old baby had locked herself in the bed her bedroom kid's got some emotional issues and we had him transported to the emergency room for him by waste and then he was subsequently we're told is placed in what's called jared's house which is a kind of like a treatment facility for adolescents that have anger management or those type issues so he is his mother was  petrified he'd already slapped her once and then went in and got this big long butcher knife to go after her now the case we dealt with was a felony l o l lewd lascivious we took a call back on august twenty fifth in the trailer park and this senior gentleman in the middle of the afternoon was about three twenty eight in the afternoon decided to expose himself totally to some kids playing in the artic cross the street aged two to eight we got there he was highly intoxicated he was point almost zero three zero in the middle of the afternoon it's not his first conditions but one of those conditions was that he had to check himself into a an alcohol treatment facility to stay out of jail before his trial or if he decides to plead depending on what happen s apparently this wasn't the first episode with this but it's this gentleman but it's the first one that we were called to and because adult with the children he apparently likes to expose himsel pornographic movies so loud that everybody can hear it and i was knows what's going on but they had called us in the past on this one you know there's been a lot more but that's just kind of a synopsis of some of the things that we've handled recently total in this short time that we not spoken to each other we've written two hundred seventy nine traffic tickets in town speeds of seem to be back up and we have even though i put the traffic  different locations in town they seen this still not slow down we wrote two hundred eighty two warnings seventeen parking tickets and we've made forty arrests in the short time since last time we talked everything from mike i said the ones where he talked about conditions of release violations which were somebodies been charged with something and the court releases my conditions and they get in trouble again with us grand who handle the case where it was all probably about eight hundred dollars worth of this fancy new i phone i still use a flip phone so it's a fancy it was a six hundred something dollar phone and some and integrated watch that goes with it which was about three hundred fifty eight dollars after nato ended up doing a search warrant and house of asics recovered the property and charge the violat larceny here again this this person is a known drug user abuser and he was put in the wrapper intervention program which basically means he he goes and sees a judge once a week and goes the treatment facility to get himself off whatever drug he happens to be on we have had a couple living the scenes of the accident arrest where somebody hit something and just the size not in damages other people's property just decides to drive off we've had two cases and we actually saw both of those cases tracked down the operator took probably two weeks to track down one of them who was from the i think bristol area of vermont three domestic assaults bays one of these was  you know it's the same thing you can't be beaten up on your spouse or partner or children and most of these cases alcohol and or drugs are involved and we get called and right now in vermont and in town here if we arrest somebody on a domestic assault charge and we've see evidence that there's some kind of injury you are going to jail there's no ifs ands or buts about it we are going to spend at least a night if not the weekend in jail and then you'll be arraigned the next available court date it's no questions asked that you know you're going to jail period so we had a cruelly you know an animal charge which was based off local rental apartment in town the person advent in there had been evicted but visit before he left he decided to smash everything counters doors sheet rock smoke  detectors about five thousand dollars damage or more that he did to this of a little one bedroom apartment the place was trashed i had to go in there food had been laying on the counters for probably months on the floors  because the damage was so extensive and we charged with cruelty to an animal because he just let this you know told him to box turtle die of starvation and just left it there so it's been it's been pretty busy and we've added a new part time officer since last time we spoke to john hamlin who was actually in the academy right now the part time academy i anticipate that sergeant hansa will probably leave us by spring he says spent the last two weeks in florida doing their waiver academy which he passed everything is already been recruited by two sheriff's departments down there he's been with us just over four years but his family's down there  brother his entire family's in florida and the family wants him in florida so he is probably going to be headed there proud sometime by spring i'd say he'll he'll be gone in that case officer hamlin that we just h will be ready to go to the full time academy because we're all sensitive part time academy already he gets out of that this friday and then we'll do his sixteen week f b o field training officer he's a local kid lives right here in town wants to be a cop bad and he's completed everything we put him through the entire background prior prog process already including the polygraph and so if jake decides to so it's twenty weeks but he won't once he gets done with that he'll be able to rake in the field by himself field already had the f d a oh so we won't have to deal with that you know three month process a lot going on those of you haven't seen it we got our new ford utility crews or it's all marked up ready to go it's on the road now you know it was about six weeks late the fact that they sold so many of these ford police utility vehicles in the country they ran out of room we got a two thousand and fifteen version at the two thousand and fourteen price so you'll see that in town the only difference is  i went with the inner light bar on it which is means it's inside the car under the headliner because that was a lot cheaper it was only about six seven hundred dollars versus the exteriors light bar which they want to twenty nine hundred dollars for so big difference i prefer an exterior light bar but just didn't have the funding for it this time and that's a snapshot of what's been going on in town for the last six seven weeks or whatever it is last time we we spoke to each other be have any questions or again you can always call here we don't have twenty four hour seven here so the if we're not here goes to voicemail one problem we're having right now in the telephone companies on it is we don't have the capability we only had six slots so a couple of the officers that are listed in there but if you get that you can it's a message for one of the officers isn't listed just leave it on my bt dot us and i respond to emails i get emails like you to emails every day usually dozens or more of them but you know for not here and you need they'll dispatchers to whatever that call happens to be so if i guess that it's an emergency dial nine one one and thank you