 Hello everyone my name is Jeremy Hixon I'm currently the senior advisor over the Pasco Sheriff's Office Explorer program. Today we are hosting a FAPE or the Florida Association of Police Explorers Delegates Conference. Essentially this is a opportunity where Explorer posts from all across the state of Florida are coming together and participating in a joint training session hosted by the Pasco Sheriff's Office. So today we have eight different scenario stations planned and most of the scenarios are going to encompass in progress mocked calls for service where we're going to have the ability to evaluate the explorers on different types of skills including decision-making skills officer safety communication scene awareness and basic investigative law enforcement procedures. All this is in an effort to train them to teach them something about the career field that they might want to possibly know or at least have a better understanding of. This Delegates Conference affords them that opportunity to get some hands-on training and to really build that confidence to be able to make a more well-informed decision so when they graduate high school they know that hey this is a career path that they really are passionate about. Hello my name is Alyssa Jamison I'm currently a captain within the Explorer posts. So throughout the Explorer program I've been involved for about four years throughout junior explorers and then senior explorers. So during my time in junior explorers I learned a lot about teamwork and how to help each other out. When I transitioned to senior explorers I've gotten a lot more experienced with scenario-based training and just learned a lot more about myself. I've learned that I can do way more than I think I'm capable of. So throughout scenario-based training I've learned a lot about communication and how to help each other out when you're on scenarios. I've also gone on countless hours of ride-alongs which has prepared me for my future in law enforcement. Honestly if I wasn't in this post I wouldn't be sure if law enforcement was something that I wanted to do in the future. I wouldn't have the assurance that I needed but through this post I've seen that this is exactly what I want to do with my future. Well my name is Major Dylan Acres I'm with the Explorer Post 916 with the Pasq Sheriff's Office. As an explorer within the past five years I've learned just going out on the road and going on ride-alongs and just being an explorer out on community details you notice how people treat you or how others act and the biggest thing is to treat others with respect as you want to be treated. Something that I've noticed as a an explorer is you get to see all the different things within the Sheriff's Office you meet people and you get to build that relationship as well to know what it's like to be a good citizen because you get all these tips on building your discipline and your respect within the agency and the community. Through my career as an explorer I've gone through many different scenarios trainings and different activities within the Explorer Post and different law enforcement agents. These include delegates conferences which is based off of leadership exercises team building and a lot of drill and discipline. This helps a lot within yourself to build up your camaraderie and your discipline within your character and your personality traits to help you get to know others and to just build that relationship with other people. I want to thank FAPE I want to thank the district school board of Pasco County for allowing us to host the event at one of their schools and I also want to thank our Sheriff Sheriff Chris Nacko for his support and his admiration and yeah it's gonna be a good day.