Don't Just Sit There is a television show on Nickelodeon that first aired in 1988 and lasted for three seasons.
 The show was a talk show mixed with a comedy sketches.
 Segments included making food or taking things apart such as a Nintendo.
 The basic concept of the show was to give kids ideas for different things they could do rather than just sitting and watching TV, hence the title.
 Out of Order was the house band on the series, they would later get to sing on the show as well as participate in sketches.
The Miami-Dade Police Department (MDPD), formerly known as the Metro-Dade Police Department (1981–1997), Dade County Public Safety Department (1957–1981) and the Dade County Sheriff's Office (1836–1957) is a Full Service County Police Department serving Miami-Dade County's unincorporated areas, although they have lenient mutual aid agreements with other incorporated municipalities, most often the City of Miami Police Department.
 The MDPD has approximately 4,700 employees.
 The Department is still often referred by its former name, the "Metro-Dade Police" or simply "Metro".
 Miami-Dade Police officers are easily identified by their taupe/brown colored uniforms.
 Miami-Dade Police vehicles are identified by their green and white livery.
 MDPD officers carry silver badges, while officers with the ranks of sergeant and above carry gold badges.
Snap-On Gearhead Garage: The Virtual Mechanic is a PC game where players repair and customize late model cars and trucks.
 It was created by Mekada, endorsed by Snap-on Tools, and published in 1999 by Head Games (subsequently acquired by Activision).
 There is no feature for driving the cars but Gearhead Garage introduced an entirely new "bolt-em up" paradigm.
 The appeal is reminiscent of taking things apart in real life—players can completely disassemble the engine, repair the individual parts, reassemble them, and then exhibit the completed result in their 3D "car lot".
 The game also features a series of "jobs", wherein the player fixes vehicles owned by fictional characters.
 This allows them to earn money to buy custom items from the catalog, auction, or junkyard.
Against the Wall is an American police drama television series created by Annie Brunner.
 The series starred Rachael Carpani as Abby Kowalski, a police detective who recently joined the Internal Affairs division of the Chicago Police Department.
Adrian Monk is a title character and the protagonist of the USA Network television series "Monk", portrayed by Tony Shalhoub.
 He is a renowned former homicide detective for the San Francisco Police Department.
 Monk has obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and multiple phobias, all of which intensified after the murder of his wife Trudy, resulting in his suspension from the department.
 He works as a private police homicide consultant and undergoes therapy with the ultimate goal of overcoming his grief, taking control of his phobias and disorder, and being reinstated as a police detective.
The Manassas City Police Department (MCPD) is the primary law enforcement agency servicing 37,821 people living in City of Manassas, VA.
 Located at 9518 Fairview Avenue, the Manassas City Police Department serves a jurisdiction of approximately 10.0 sqmi .
 In 2008, the department employed 90 sworn police officers, 12 unsworn police officers.
 On July 9, 2014, Manassas City Police Department became newsworthy after a local teenager sent explicit photos of herself to her then boyfriend (age 17) who in return sent explicit video of himself to the teen.
 When the female teenager's mother complained, the MCPD officials chose to create some of their own child-porn in order to investigate a case of "child porn".
 MCPD held a warrant to chemically induce an erection in the boy and photograph the boy's penis purportedly to compare/measure it with help from a special "Homeland Security software" according to MCPD Detective David E. Abbott.
Roland "Prez" Pryzbylewski is a fictional character on the HBO drama "The Wire", played by actor Jim True-Frost.
 Pryzbylewski is a detective of Polish heritage in the Baltimore Police Department.
 Initially seen as incompetent, hapless, corrupt and hot-headed, he proves to function better behind the scenes as a talented code-cracker.
 Eventually, he leaves the Baltimore Police Department following an accidental shooting of another officer and becomes a middle school math teacher, where he develops into a caring and moral person.
 In some ways he is the mirror-image foil to Herc, who also lost his job at the police department but went on to aid criminals.
Bernard J. Schaffer (born 1974) is a police detective, an author, and a former child actor who appeared on the Nickelodeon program "Don't Just Sit There".
 He joined the police department in 1996 and passed the detective's test in 2005.
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department is the police department of the City of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, US.
 With 1,849 officers and 473 civilian staff as of 2014, covering an area of 438 sqmi with a population of nearly 900,000, it is the largest police department between Washington D.C. and Atlanta, Georgia.
 The CMPD is unique in that it was formed in 1993 with the merger of the former Charlotte City Police Department and the Mecklenburg County Rural Police Department.
 Mecklenburg and neighboring Gaston County were the two counties out of the state's 100 counties to have county police in addition to the sheriff's offices.
 County police perform law enforcement tasks in the county with police powers anywhere in the county just like the sheriff, but the sheriff primarily handled the courts and jails.
 The North Carolina General Assembly approved legislation combining the two agencies.
 They are by statute "county police" in that they have jurisdiction anywhere in Mecklenburg County.
 However currently, the CMPD does not have any response areas outside Charlotte but within Mecklenburg County.
 The unique status of this situation makes the CMPD "metro" police, and the City of Charlotte has no municipal police department.
Shakima "Kima" Greggs is a fictional character on the HBO drama "The Wire", played by actress Sonja Sohn.
 Greggs is a police detective in the Baltimore Police Department who is a dedicated officer and capable detective.
 Openly lesbian, she has had problems with infidelity, alcohol, and relationships. Greggs plays a key role in all of the police's main cases.

Question: A police detective, author and former child actor who appeared on a show that had segments about making food and taking things apart, joined the police department in what year?
Answer: 1996