 Hello, everybody. It is Bernice here, your community outreach specialist for the Pascal Sheriff's Office, and I am here to bring you the answers from Monday's Q&A video, the start of it. So I just want to go ahead and throw out a disclaimer, first of all. This video is incredibly long because I just, I didn't want to cut anybody off time-wise in their answers, and I wanted to allow everyone the time that they needed to feel sufficient in their answers. So what you can do is go ahead. If you don't want to watch the whole video, you can drop below to the description and I will put the timestamp for every question as well as the question itself so that you guys can skip forward or, you know, go to the area that you feel like you best want to listen to. So I did group the questions and find someone that I feel like was best suited to answer them. So we grouped them into SWAT, canine, marine, community relations, patrol, and I think that was everyone. So they'll be grouped into categories based off of who answered them as well as the timestamp and the question below if you want to skip ahead. So now that that disclaimer is over, I will go ahead. Actually, I also have an announcement. So starting next week, we will actually be doing like two minute live videos on Facebook on whatever day one of our social media coordinators does a tweet along. I will be going out there and meeting up with our social media coordinator and the individual doing the tweet along just to ask them a couple of quick questions before they start the tweet along and just to kind of drive you guys to go ahead and watch the tweet along. So those will be happening on Facebook on either Tuesday or Wednesday morning. So be on the lookout for those to come. So with that, I will answer my questions. There were not a lot, but here I just go ahead and get to it. Okay, so question number one is what does editing a video look like producing as well as directing? So I won't get into this. It's pretty I don't know, like trivial, but it can take me a pretty long time to edit a video nowadays. The shortest one time I can edit a video is maybe about two days with everything that I've learned how to do color grading, speed ramping, masking, write-on effects, audio enhancing, finding the songs. So it's it's a lot that goes into it. Okay Can you tell us the background on how the 9 p.m. routine was started as well as tweet alongs? So the 9 p.m. routine was actually started by my boss, Jason Daniels, the sheriff, sheriff not go, and the original social media coordinator who is now known as deputy Reese and we actually just copyrighted it a couple of weeks ago and had a press conference on it. So when you see other agencies and other departments talking about the 9 p.m. routine, we actually started that. So from what I understand it actually came as a way to kind of combat the attempted vehicle burglaries and the vehicle burglaries that were happening as well as people breaking into homes because they were leaving valuables in sight and leaving their doors unlocked. So very simple, easy, and it was in a simple, easy, effective way to put across our social media platforms that anyone of any age can do. Anyone can double-check to make sure a door is locked and check in with us. So Okay I thought this was funny and I know it wasn't supposed to be intended for this but I figured I would include it. Why did I cut my ear? What did you do to your hair? I did what I wanted to and I cut it because I wanted to so this is not the first time that I've cut my hair off. I absolutely love it and I really appreciate appreciate all of you that have been very kind. Towards me saying that you like it. I appreciate it but I did what I wanted to and my husband really likes it and it took me a really long time to find the barber but uh, you guys have no clue why I did it or if there were other reasons behind it. So I just think it's a little rude of you that keeps saying bring back the long hair or you can pay for it. Okay, so these are just some fun questions because there were a couple of questions about my role as a PIO and like getting members ready for press conferences but you'll see later in this video that I actually bring in Amanda and have her answer those with me. So someone asked what was my favorite quote from a book movie or show so two off the top of my head one is Stay Gold Pony Boy and it's from The Outsiders which was a book which was adapted into a movie so Stay Golden is a model that I've looked by for a very long time that's very important to me. Near and dear I talk about it in my five things video my personal one and then probably oh what is it? I have not failed I just found 10,000 ways that don't work in Thomas Edison said that so I think that's very key. Okay, who or what has influenced you the most this past year? That's a really big question. I don't necessarily think it's been an individual or nothing like that. I think that in general it's been different events that have happened to me so I've had a couple of health scares this year. My husband was actually he flipped over a car about two months ago on his motorcycle. Someone pulled out in front of him and then stopped in a two-lane road and he hit the brakes as much as he could but he flipped over the car. So different events that have happened have just reminded me that we get too stressed out about things that we have no control over and things can change like that and it's helped me to remind myself how important it is to me my family and what I want out of life and what I want for myself and where I want to see myself in a couple of years and how much those around me do mean to me so that's probably just different events that helped influence me the most this year. And then just the last one, a fun question, what is your least favorite food and beverage? Probably anything chocolatey. I'm not really a big fan of chocolate so yeah. Okay so those are my questions, a couple things about editing and whatnot and some general fun questions so now you'll see I'm gonna pass you off to the next set of questions for whatever those may be and I'll see you guys at the end of it. I'm with Ashley to answer who's a community engagement assistant within my unit, the community relations unit so I just to answer her questions. So first question for Ashley was can you describe in detail what you do? What I do, aka what I don't do. So my position is evolving, it has been, it's going to continue to evolve. Some of the main things that I do, I put on our two main charity events so our shotgun shootout which is in February and then we have our annual fishing tournament which just passed, we had it in October. Thank you to everyone who came out. It was fun, we made jokes on the boat, yes it was great. I had good jokes that day, anyways. I prefer the shootout though. Yes shootout was really fun and we hold the largest shootout in the state of Florida. Side note, boom my job. So I coordinate those events from start to finish, everything that goes into it. We have a lot of volunteers from our jail that help out as well and I'm very thankful for all of them so in addition to that I also float around and help anyone else in the unit so Corporal Ziggler who is our officer friendly out in the coochie I help out there a lot with her. So really anyone in the unit that needs help I will be there. In addition to that I do manage all of the charity store functions so all of your orders. Thank you to everyone who continues to purchase but also side note, I am one person, one tiny little human being. She's not even five foot one. I'm not five foot one so literally. Please be nice to me. There's a lot of you in one of me. But I have other job responsibilities and some priority versus mailing. So some days are devoted to taking care of orders and making sure they're situated and straight and that you guys don't put in orders with no addresses or you know and then versus some days are devoted to other things like if we have a bit or if you have to plan and coordinate and get certain things taken care of like you've already started you're deep into working on the shotgun shootout for February like and you have been for a couple of weeks so it's like the day after the fishing tournament she starts on the shotgun shootout. Yep so and then just be nice and also other events. So she's actually the main individual that is planning our meet and greet that we have. I don't even know what it is. I just found out about it. Yeah me and her main it's gonna be in April April 4th I believe. So you're the one that plan that you were the main one that helped plan the live PD meet and greet to the coordinate so that's getting vendors getting the t-shirts getting the tickets getting the pens the tables traffic control signs manning the lights taking care of clean up volunteers water for all of us that help out scheduling coordinating with different units like the chain of command cocs to make sure that certain members can be there. It's a lot like when you think about it oh I could put on an event all right and then you actually have to do it you're like wow I didn't think about this and there's like just little things I'm Cuban I can't help it. She's um no so I completely lost my train of thought I messed myself up. That's okay let's just continue. Yeah it's just a lot that she does do and it's constantly evolving because what she did a year ago in this position isn't what she does now so as the needs of our unit and the community grow and what we can handle your responsibility. Then my job description goes like it's ever evolving it's just like my position I don't really quite do what I did a year ago yeah so yeah but I love how you've grown and watching you evolve into this position and make it your own it's great it's special. So another question that someone asked you is what does a working day look like for you? A working day well it depends on what day you want to know about and what is going on. Yes every day is different I don't I honestly every day is different some days I'm out in Lucucci at the Boys and Girls Club all day some days I'm in Wesley Chapel running around the community there's rarely am I ever just in the office all day like it's also nice because I have the ability to work from remote so really it's just different each day today I will be if you want to know what I'm doing today I will be doing more mailing so you're welcome just kidding I didn't mean it like mean or anything but some things just seem mundane and just fun and enjoyable but also but I'll be doing the shoot out too is so what comes with that is also figuring out making sure things work so working closely with IT that certain links on our website work so that she can get registrations and in a proper amount of time and so registrations for the Shotgun Shootout have already started to come in in the last couple of days but they're not going to the correct place so that's something that she also has to work on and spend time I will be working on the shootout today as well as mailing so every day is different but it's nice though I get to go out and about and switch up my day so it's kind of cool stressful ever-evolving you adapt and conquer you overcome oh I thought our mission but we adapt and conquer or that too okay all right and another question that someone sent in for Ashley was when or if will Canadians ever be able to purchase items from the site the golden question we've I get this question not just from people in Canada but people in Europe unfortunately due to logistics and costs I don't see us ever doing that it's just there's a lot that goes into it and unfortunately we cannot with customs yeah there's just a lot that goes into it unfortunately we cannot not adapt we we just can't work it into it and that's above our decision so what I try to do to be accommodating to those who would like to order that are not in the United States if you do know someone who lives in the States I would be family friends anyone I'd be more than happy to send your order to that address and they can send it to you from there so I have no problem doing that it's just unfortunately again due to logistics and costs I cannot and this is above above my decision I cannot I cannot send out of the country so you guys are loyal like that that email where I get all the orders is constantly full so you guys are hashtag loyal guys yeah yeah so those are all of the questions basically directed specifically to Ashley so Ashley's questions and we're off to the next person back okay so now guys we are with Sergeant Lenzalata and we're over in our detention center and how you doing good how are you I'm good thanks okay so your question is can inmates wear tinted glasses while they're in the jail yes so inmates are allowed prescription glasses tinted or non-tinted but they have to be approved by medical first that was simple yep very easy on to the next okay guys so I have Deputy Stone here to answer the canine questions he is one of our trainers that we have so yeah who better suited right okay so first question that we're gonna ask is how hard is it to become a canine handler well with our agency and everybody's a little different so you have to get some a little experience a little time on the road learn what it is to be a law enforcement officer and then there's a selection process so you got to go go to YouTube and watch her video that she posted on it but there's so there's a selection process with tryouts running push-ups crawling swimming swamps so a lot of that a lot of environmental messy stuff just to make sure that the candidates are okay with all of that they don't have any issues with it and not scare the dark exactly I would not make it and then and then from there there's some home visits involved to make sure that the environment in which the canine is going to be housed is sufficient and and then there's oral boards so it's just I didn't know about that some more boards so and I can't go into what those questions are yeah I mean if you want to know you can just come be on the road get off probation try out make it get your oral word that that's all you know boom okay so how much training do they have to complete once they're selected so the initial phase once the handler and the canine are selected and paired together as a team if there's a minimum of 480 hours per FDLE standards because we all are FDLE certified but there's a minimum of 480 we run somewhere between 560 and 600 hours just to make sure that we have exactly plenty of plenty of time in there and the dogs are and the dogs and handlers are where they need to be and that's just right off the bat that's just right off the bat training every week and then you sometimes do like monthly trainings and I know if you have like a specialty dog like one of the bloodhounds they go to like bloodhound training they do like out of the state sometime and that we have our human remains detection dogs and then our lifeline dogs and then our SWAT canines SWAT canines are the EOD dogs are narcotics dogs so there are 480 hours that I was talking about FDLE that's just the initial for patrol basics right one then once they get the experience work in the road then they're going out and then they're doing their their specialty their detector work which is an additional we run about 200 maybe 300 hours worth of that and then their certifications along with that but the training continues it never stops yeah with guys get some downtime they go out and they'll do some stuff on their own if it's something they can't do on their own then we have our weekly trainings that we do and then of course every now and then we get multi-agency groups together and train once you guys have seen a lot which yes good so that's a lot of training they're also on the channel exactly exactly zpd date city new port richie you guys know them okay all right so what is next okay what type of schedule do the canine deputies work oh boy I wish it was that simple I know I know right so typically normally we mimic the the patrol schedule that they do which is it's a 12 hour shift for the most part but you're you have every other weekend off yes you have Friday Saturday Sunday every other weekend off so the hour the days that you work this week you're off next week exactly and it's of course the two week the two week pay period however because we're specialty unit our hours are very wonky wonky and flexible yes so yeah you get those phone calls hey I need you to come in and we have this going on so it has to be done yeah but we do always have at least it's two canines on at a time at least yeah at least okay yes so that's pretty much how okay so how many days in a week do they get off oh so just like patrols you have a short week and you have your long week so you know one of the weeks you're off the two days during the week and the following you're off the three days during the week and then every other weekend so it's like a five two split right that's the easiest way to get it okay and you answered how long are their shifts so throughout their shifts how many breaks are they able to get in and I don't know if they mean for the handler or for the puppy I don't know well so yeah so the dog I mean if we're having a slow shift we'll get the dog out of course we're doing training every day every day do getting the dog out doing something with the dog so so he gets out and and they always they have to work in order to play yep I think they have to do something in order to play work work to play and they love it it's all a game for them so and as far as us our breaks it just depends on calls and there's just I bring my lunch with me and I've I've ate it they live in their car in my car so yeah it just all depends on call on you know exactly some days yeah some days you come to work and you don't stop exactly the other days you're out doing obedience and some training with your dog a lot so and again you guys have probably seen this from tweetalongs and if you're asking this I feel like you have not watched the tweetalongs they probably should watch the tweetalongs I'm just saying right shout out to our social media coordinators okay and I think um what do canine units do on their day off I feel like this is so proud and everybody's different yeah so I would say probably just like everybody else does on you know I have my honeydew list that I got things to do around the house sometimes the dog he gets underfoot and he gets in the way trying to help and exactly that's not okay go do your own thing relax and again even even at home right so there is no you just take the dog out back and throw the ball they have to work and do something in order in order to get in order to get paid basically exactly so yeah you gotta do the darn thing and most of our so I don't know if a lot of people know you cannot transport your canine in your personal vehicle that is correct so most of our canine handlers from what I've heard you guys have like some land like you have some land to the puppy has space to play and stuff because they can't go to a normal park and like play with other puppies right but a lot of handlers have other dogs too and babes that they can play with and everything so everyone's different guys but I think that might be a cute video like a canine's day off like a point of view of a puppy you'd probably see a lot of sleeping exactly especially down the ground yeah we have a busy week they're they're laying down sleeping they sleep a lot anyway I thought that you said that but you guys know exactly so I think uh last question how did the canine tryouts go so they didn't watch the video that's how I feel you didn't watch the video they did go well they did go well but you probably should watch the video on the tryouts but they went well we had four four handlers get selected three of those are going to be patrol and detection dogs and then the fourth is going to be a live find dog FEMA certified and I think our third one now because uh Heidi and soup both have so canine fi and canine diesel and we have canine mac oh canine mac I forgot a cute little mac what's god grand so this will be our fourth one that's awesome so you guys don't see them just yet we don't do any press conferences or any videos with them until they're done with all of those 500 hours to make sure that they're actually certified and their handler and the pup are good to go and then so maybe like I I don't know January February March whenever that time happens if it all goes well exactly sometimes there's little hiccups in there you gotta work on things here and there so takes a little bit longer sometimes you go with the flow that was it and those are all the questions about canine and that is deputy stone and we're on our next set of questions hope you enjoyed it boom okay hey everybody okay so I'm back with corporal bullenbacher and we are at the encloat river park to answer his questions so one of the first questions that we got was does the marine unit patrol every day so the marine unit has two people in it and we have a schedule that someone's supposed to be working every day with other events and stuff we don't always have someone out but there's definitely someone on call every day but we work a schedule similar to patrol where there's someone on every day okay so that kind of answers also how a little bit about how does the work schedule work with the marine unit in the marine unit being there's only two of us and we have to cover 24 7365 we have it set up so that one of us is on call one week and then we're off call for a week however our work schedule is we both always work Tuesdays and Thursdays and then depending on what we have to do in the week and what hours we need to flex with special events we have dictates what other days in a normal business week Monday through Friday we work and then we try to have at least one of us out for Saturday and Sunday okay so that clears that up a lot okay so another question we had was if there is ever an emergency and someone is out on the water at night a civilian what's the protocol and is that protocol the same as during the day so I answer this in twofold the first part is if you're ever on the water and you're in a coastal valley a water being a river the enclo river the Gulf of Mexico Tampa Bay when you're on a boat the easiest and best thing to do is if it's equipped with a vhf radio and a gps is to hail out Mayday to the Coast Guard give them your latitude longitude they'll immediately start a broadcast asking any mariners in the area to come assist you that's the quickest way to get help on the water the second quickest way is to dial 911 on your phone just remember that when you call 911 instead of calling the Coast Guard on a Mayday is you're going to a dispatch center a lot of times the dispatch center you're going to may not even have any marine resources so there might be a little bit of delay in getting resources to you or alerting other people in the immediate area that you're in trouble second part of the question is if at the sheriff's office you call 911 or we get a call from the Coast Guard and one of us isn't working whoever's on call is immediately notified by pasco communications and then we start responding directly from our house to wherever the boat is to get whatever resources we need to get to be able to get out to you awesome that's a lot of really important information for all of you out there if you do boat or if you go out with friends just so that you know okay so another question what are some of the marine calls that followers don't often get to see so a lot of the calls at the sheriff's office that you don't get to see or you don't even hear about are more of our environment environmental crimes type calls so uh derelict vessels any vessel upon bringing a fly over yeah and it's not us but it's a really cool looking job rude okay i hope you can hear me out so a lot of the calls that people don't get to see are are environmental crimes type calls so derelict vessels so boats that don't run substantially demand dismantled uh sinking we handle a lot of those calls and our environmental the pollution calls we go to where our car goes in the water there's a list of discharge from a facility or residents we go to those calls handle notify the appropriate resources and coordinate the response whether we need to get booms to contain the spill or if it's going to be entitled waters and just go out to one sea and dissipate in the tide other calls that you don't get to see are our boating safety inspections i'm sure you've seen someone tweet along on a tweet along probably those happened quite frequently and the other thing would probably be the calls that we get in parks i don't think we've had any on the tweet alongs but me is that like someone that is being rowdy at like say we're at the anklet river so all sorts of complaints i'm sure if you have a boat you've been to a boat ramp and you know all sorts of disputes that happened at the boat ramp over how you launch your boat how you recover your boat if you're allowed to have alcohol in the parks how long you're at the boat ramp exactly any sort of thing so that's pretty that's a pretty good chunk of information i think so the only other question that didn't say out loud is if he's off is anybody else on call but he actually answered that because we went over these questions so that's pretty good that's great he's here somewhere i don't know yes he had his partner is somewhere who you guys have met multiple times before he's on tweet alongs with you exactly plenty of times but on to the next set of questions okay everybody so i have corporal barlow who is on our training unit who i also call them the red shirts they're normally in a red shirt and he is also the assistant lead assistant team leader assistant team lead for our swat unit so i figured he would be best suited to answer these swat questions so here we go okay first question what are the different tactics that you get trained on in swat okay so some of the things that we trained for our high research warrants let's see we trained to respond to barricaded subjects okay any hostage rescue situations we also do protective security details like dignitary protection when we have someone in town interesting a lot of times we will augment their um security personnel that they have just to to help them out okay i should invite as one yes absolutely so basically anything that's beyond the training and beyond the equipment that like regular patrol guys have that's what we're trained for we have the training and we have the equipment that we're able to handle critical instance that they might not be able to just based on the level of training we have and the extra equipment that we have okay good stuff good so i know you said dignitaries but have we ever done any celebrities looks like a side question um i haven't here with the sheriff's office but i have when i worked in qwest okay uh so let's see uh the backstreet boys really yeah they did a little yeah the backstreet boys uh william shatner okay jimmy buffett um yeah okay wow not to just name drop yeah um let's see we helped out the uh secret service with there was there were peace talks between azure by john and armenia and they had the peace talks in qwest so we augmented the secret service and diplomatic security service with the state department to help them out with their security wild that's wild just to you know throw a couple casual you know need a couple things that west done okay so question number two what type of equipment does swat have okay so we have a ballistic vest they're a little bit more beefed up than the vest that the guys on patrol wear or some of the other units wear we have ballistic helmets um let's see we have shields some of the guys do have shields but we have some shields that are a little bit more beefed up okay that will be able to stop a rifle round you gotta forbid someone decides to shoot at us with the rifle um we have cameras that we can use we have a little covert cameras that we can put in place so we can see what's going on in a location we might need to make entry into uh we have robots that we use um little tiny robots that can roam around and kind of clear places for us if there's a place that it's not quite clear yet and we don't really want to um like endanger our deputies by sending them into an unknown if we can clear it with the robot we will do that um so any anything like that that can make our job a lot safer that's that's what we're using i love that like walley but um we also have armored vehicles which i think some of the people are probably familiar with but yeah all our specialty vehicles you guys have seen in plenty of videos me and amanda drove them in a mow gets to do them they're also out in the community if you guys live close by at touch a truck event so yeah you guys should know about those okay so another one you kind of answered this one but when or what kind of calls do swat respond to and okay yeah so all the things that we talked about being trained for are the ones that we respond to a lot of critical incidents basically okay so who takes control of the situation okay so if a critical incident occurs usually the first deputy on scene will take control until someone of either higher rank or someone who has a lot more experience is able to take care of it um we have a pretty good relationship between the SWAT team and people that not necessarily on the SWAT team but so for instance if we have a squad of people that work on patrol and there might be one or two SWAT guys on that squad if there's a critical incident most of the supervisors even though they're a supervisor technically they're in charge they use their resources so if they have somebody who's a little bit more trained in tactics than they will use that person to get information or they might actually have them run the scene since they have a little bit more training and doing things like that that makes sense pretty easy simple okay what are the qualifications to get into the SWAT unit okay so no yes um you have to have been a deputy with the sheriff's office for at least a year that's also on the correction side uh as well as our law enforcement side we do have members of the SWAT team that are that work at our jail um they're usually members of their TAC team which is basically the tactical um side for corrections okay and they help us out they help us by helping with our perimeter whenever we have an incident we have to deal with so you have to have been here at least a year um you have to have not had any disciplinary issues within that past year so you have to have been off probation working for the sheriff's office you put in a letter of interest um your file gets reviewed to see if you've had any disciplinary issues um your supervisor is spoken to to see you know if you're a good deputy or somebody that we would want on the team um once that we've done that uh there's a PT test you have to do okay you have to run a mile and a half in a certain time you have to do push-ups and sit-ups and you have to do so many of those um within a minute time frame okay and that's like the beginning stages and you guys have seen that in a video yeah that's right i think they have yep after that uh there is an obstacle course and you know we usually go to mary in county for that and you have to do that when then it's a timed event um so you do the PT test you do the obstacle course after that there are a couple of shooting tests where we put stress on the people whenever they're shooting um you're not just standing there and and still and nice and relaxed and you're shooting we have to put them under stress because obviously with some of the things that we have to deal with in SWAT it's a high stress environment so we want to make sure that that person can handle the stress and they can operate when they need to at a certain level so we put stress on them through calisthenics and then we will have them shoot after you know they're kind of tired and doing that to make sure they can still operate in a high stress environment we have a couple of different iterations of that and then we usually have a mixture of an obstacle course and shooting and those are usually timed events too um the times some timed events or pass fail some are not we just use them to grade people so if someone happens to have a faster time than another person and we don't have so many slots open that obviously the person who's performed better will get that slot first so at the end of the day time matters guys yes it does which and you guys have all seen all of this so Marion County the videos where they repel and I cry at the top of the tower that is the tryout video um and that was like and I think in two parts I did it in two parts but you guys have actually seen that whole process yeah thanks all right so as far as how many times to try out it's usually once a year sometimes twice depending on how many openings we have on the team awesome good stuff and that is Corporal Barlow with all of the SWAT questions and we're gonna move on to the next category we're wonderful okay everybody all right so I have I have Deputy Martinez here and he's going to answer his questions in regards to being on the road and some court questions basically from patrol so okay okay so first question um what requires blue and red lights and sirens versus what doesn't so to encompass that and something very simple and quick pretty much a danger to light if there's something where someone's going to get hurt seriously injured we have to get there quickly because that expedited response time could minimize the chance of that person getting hurt and then of course if another unit unit being us and law enforcement needs help we have to get there quickly because they don't ask for just no reason something is is is not going well for them and any is there so in a nutshell that's when we respond with blue and red lights and sirens okay so okay question number two when it comes to going to court for a case how do you guys prepare for that so we prepare very similar to how defense attorneys prepare their clients so from the start we have what's called invest and then we'll present our case to the state attorney from that point the state attorney will decide if they want to file or not and then there's a series of different hearings that they'll do as the court as the court case gets ready for trial so we'll attend pre-child rent with them we'll attend any kind of motion to suppress with them and the motion to suppress is just basically evidence that may be faulty or that the defense may think it's faulty so they'll try to have it removed from the case so it's not easy to get sent like anyway and then during a pre-child criminal rule for the report our body worn camera just to make sure everything's squared away so that we can get to the court date representing the case and it's strong and we're not missing any hazards that may be important good stuff and patrol deputies are not the only ones that go to court uh cpi's also do go to court i've been subpoenaed six times since i've been out of the cpi unit but we also prepare kind of in the same way we call state attorney's office and we get coaching basically on how to handle ourselves what to say what not to say we get a refresh on the case as well so it's kind of they're not the only ones so also the forensics unit they get subpoenaed to go to court too oh yes a lot okay so what someone asked when are you needed to go to court so basically what kind of case is so it varies it varies great the majority of the time it's when there's some sort of major charge that the defendant doesn't want on the record or wants them at court or whatever they're reading maybe they'll challenge it and they'll actually take the case to trial so if the case is going to trial after we hit you know the invest a pre-child prep we hit the process to suppress and they still feel that they have a strong chance of winning the case uh they'll ask their attorney to trial and that's when we uh we show up to present our case they present theirs and judge decides and on a smaller scale also i feel like traffic tickets traffic tickets yes if you don't like a traffic ticket you have the right to battle it and if they need us there which normally they do uh we will we will show up and uh present how we stopped doing why we stopped you and hopefully you have a good defense as well and then i'll try to judge it so just like bigger case okay so okay this question was from when you first get a call at the very beginning what happened and what ball is involved through the end of a call i personally feel like this is what the tweet alongs do this is the sole purpose of a tweet along to show how that happens so i feel like can we kind of sleep that we could skip it it's a very large question too it's a lot but if you want to see it in action tweet alongs because you were there right there so our social media coordinators are showing what happens when a deputy gets a call going to it so follow our tweet alongs for that but another question that you could answer which you'd ever see is how does a deputy start their shift what are some mandatory things that need to be done at the start and end of a shift so that varies from deputy to deputy i can only speak on why we have so when i come in to work i check all of my cases to make sure they're up to date we have to do what's called supplements to make sure that we're still actively working on the case and we're documenting our findings or lack of findings but i will wake up get dressed check my cases make sure that my cars go the way there's fuel in it all my firearms are stored where they need to be stored and i'll just start controlling it it's a pretty quick process throughout the day you know you have to get calls for service but it is a perk of long it's going to wake up get dressed get your car that's your office so i can actually kind of answer another question which asks do you take your equipment home with you or is it stored at pso so patrol we'll have what's called take home cars and we take all of our equipment home with us um you'll never see us leave our firearms in the car of our computers so if you're ever looking for good ease you won't find them in there okay but we do take our stuff home restore it and it just makes it a lot easier for some of us who drive to the district like for me is about a 35-minute drive so to do that every morning in your personal car um your fuel your mind it would be a lot so it's obviously very good with making sure that we're prepared and have what we need to make sure that we're ready to give them so much during the day and our agency is pretty blessed when it comes to that because i've heard of a lot of agencies that they don't they're not allowed to take home their cars so you are having to drive to the district office where you patrol swap out your car and then start your patrol and so we we're very fortunate that all of our members take cars absolutely because with that too it's swap out your car out of district there's another person driving so you have to take your car and restore it out why doesn't it sound so bad at first over 30 years if you guys think back to a video that i did with sergeant thomas where he showed how meticulous his vehicle is exactly sergeant thomas and everything that's in the trunk of his car and then inside because you live in your car that's a lot of stuff if you weren't able to just stay in your car but so this actually ties into another question which asked how does dispatch know when our deputies or anyone that's on patrol is ready to take a call and when are you ready to stop taking their calls so 10-8 is our code that we use for we are available and 10-7 is we are done for the day so as long as dispatch sees that that deputy goes to 10-8 they can send them a call wherever they need them they try to keep them in their cell hey how are you they try to keep them in their cell no we're filming we're recording we're live people are lovely so this is all something that i really enjoyed about the job because you get to meet different people every day it's never easy so it is lovely but thanks for the question so as long as dispatch sees that deputy is 10-8 he can send them a call and they'll keep them close to their cell unless it's something priority that needs to be tended to someone else quickly so they don't always live where they patrol so Joe you live technically it's D-2 no you're on D-3 D-2 you live in D-2 that's considered D-2 really i'm considered D-3 look at what i know so he patrols D-2 but D-2 is very large but just because you have we have three different districts but then we have zones within those districts so i feel like when do you guys because maybe the question's asking like he's prepped and ready and he's getting in his car and he's getting the gas and driving he is ready to take a call but he's not in his zone so that comes into play with their CAD system and their computers and like anytime they get into their little car dispatch can see them on the larger map to know that they're there in their unit a little arrow and they can see where we are they know pretty much everything about what's actually working so and they need to they need to someone asked is it the same for other units in regards to dispatch knowing when you can and cannot take a call so i don't know if you guys mean this in regards to canine or uh aviation forensics instead we have so many different units a star yes but it's so it is pretty much the same the only thing is so the first units are always going to be patrolled because that's what they're doing in patrol the other specialty units have different jobs that they have to do different assignments so they are not what's called tied to the radio they have to work on some other things and they they are they are put in place to attack specific problems so you'll never really see dispatch send them a call however if patrol is just absolutely busy and no one is available luckily we have you know work starting units star units and everything star units hit units step units that are really good guys and they also watch the screen they say hey patrol is really having a hard time let's go help them out a bit and then after they clear a little bit then they can go back to doing what they were doing so it's pretty nice to have friends that have your back and guys as a whole it was just it was all inclusive guys i feel like someone's going to say something about that yes okay and that is pretty much boom yeah and on to the next of the questions would you think whoa i think it's gonna be it and next one okay okay so i have amanda here who's the community engagement specialist and pio for the sheriff's office c es hunter c os whatever my last name is now so uh we are both kind of we are both half pio and also have other job duties which we have explained plenty of times before but one of the questions that was asked was describe the pio aspect of my jobs i think i bring amanda into this because who better suited to answer it because our one of our bosses kevin will not be on this video with us yeah so i figured you want to sure so um being a pio which is a public information officer it's um basically you coordinate telling the general public as well as the media what's going on that they need to be aware of so if there's a situation going on like a couple weeks ago we had a carjacking situation that was ongoing that was something we needed to not only inform the media about but also the general public because there was a public safety issue so that's on us to get coordinate with the media put it on social media so when you see those posts on facebook or whatever be on the lookout that's us our deputies are on scene of right avoid the area i mean that type of thing that comes from us um so that's it in a very short nutshell because it is um a lot yeah so i know we've talked about this before but um there are three of us that are on call every three weeks every third week yep um so that means that when dispatch or someone on scene calls you in the middle of the night you head on out to the scene or you figure out what's going on if you need to go out there and then you again you coordinate with the media or the general public and what's going on for like a staging area which is basically it gives the media a safe distance away from the crime scene so that they don't tamper with it but also they can have a nice shot for their own footage that they need to do and whatnot so that's kind of that's just a little bit of it a very small one yeah we do press conferences we do um media releases working with different tv networks if they want to do like a crime show based off of a true case that we had we do that as well public records requests we do those redacting looking at arrest affidavits pulling booking photos pulling body-worn camera footage that you all know and love yeah um that's all us there's a lot yeah there's a lot that literally goes into our job so someone also asked what a day looks like and i don't know if you meant like us or just as a pio because we do more than just that and our days a good day for it yeah you never it was great all over the place you never know what exactly we will be doing and even if we have things on our calendar most sometimes they could get wonky and flipped and switched all over like today but so part of a managed job also outside of being a pio you i basically described like she pitches ps0 to the media yep i feel yeah yeah so i um part of my job is going to look for interesting stories um which i don't like calling them stories because it sounds like fiction so i try to find really good parts of ps0 which it's not hard you don't have to look very hard here um so i try to find really good parts to um kind of when you see those the general interest stories in the media so like um we just recently did one on our b-hit team our behavioral health intervention team um i think they're fantastic and i really like talking about that message but those types of stories yeah especially in pasco so um that's part of my job is going out and um coordinating what that story looks like and then finding uh media that wants to talk about it so and that's a lot of her job um but also we had like a mac call out this morning and even though so kevin's on call this week but because we all all three of us live in different areas of the county a man was actually the best yep uh in the best position to handle exactly how to handle that mac call out and mac is a missing missing an abducted child yes so we had a missing little boy that was found thankfully he was found safe um i've been to a couple of those now um and fortunately all the children have been recovered yes um in good condition yes um no harm which is the best possible outcome um so we have those sometimes we go to other callouts for certain swap callouts could you never know what the media could be showing up yeah marine unit callouts if they're doing some kind of a um water rescue or things like that so and we work closely with uh fwc fwc with hp but by rescue so that's just all a part of being a pio but also our jobs and you guys know i do video editing in house and externally too so that's another part so another question that someone asked was how do we get members prepared for a press conference that's my specialty i do not like getting our members prepared for a press conference i do my best not to have to have a press conference that's me yeah i do my best whereas i'm all about the press conference kevin and i are all about the press conference so nine times out of ten it's me or kevin enjoying the media training for our deputies exactly um we're really really fortunate in that this agency has a great training program through the academy so um deputies going through the academy or potential deputies going through the academy actually get to learn um a little bit they touch on it which is it's super helpful because at least they have a basis um but for a deputy or detective coming in for the first time doing an interview we like to go through the whole basically what the process is going to look like from the time they walk into the room to the time they walk out mm-hmm so we kind of walk them through on who's going to speak what they're going to talk about so if it's not just them say the sheriff's going to talk and then or introduce them yeah or their lieutenant's going to speak first and then you know that person or whoever there's a powerpoint to go with it what's going to need to show right when that's going to happen if that's going to happen beforehand or if we're going to do it at the end or all the way through and who's going to be doing that it's basically coordinating the whole press conference and letting that person into that because we don't want to send them into something that they're not blindsided yes exactly so and we also at our agency we also have a pretty good working relationship with the media so the media if they say they're gonna pretty much stay on topic for one thing they don't really ever stray from that too much but that is also why we're always in the room too yeah because sometimes they'll bring up questions about another case or one information about two cases going on concurrently so some of the things we do to prep our members is try to prepare them as much as we can so we think up potential questions that media may ask how they may stray or twist something or sometimes we honestly get a lot of questions from social media so if it's a case we've talked about on social media in the case of like this morning we had a missing child so we kind of look at those social media questions and can develop some potential questions that media may ask from those because we don't want them to get up there and think about the answer for a very long time which they don't because they're the subject matter experts so a lot of times they're very well prepared so some of the things we do have to warn them about is usually has to do with um public information laws and victims rights so a lot of times marcie's we deal with marcie's law so we can't talk about certain things that will identify a victim which when you're very close to a case and you're very familiar with all the players in a case it's kind of hard so we have to kind of coach them through that um just because you're excited to talk about it um so you kind of you have to help that case yeah yeah so you have to separate yourself from that a little bit and remember that not everybody can know that information and it's also pretty good that most of whenever we do a press conference say we have just a deputy that's on it or a detective their coc their chain of command they also are aware of who has and has not been on camera and who is or isn't the most comfortable so say it's someone that it's a big case and it's their first one that they're doing a press conference for they will also have support from their chain of command they're with them either standing sometimes you see people standing next to them and they don't really say anything and they just kind of you know like it's nice to have that exactly i don't want to say buddy system but kind of like that to have a presence there that you know that gives you a little more confidence or even at the back of the room sometimes because so like where we have the camera now is where the media is normally set up you guys have seen this video before they film in that direction so sometimes just to have someone behind the camera like you're doing good like just a face wrap it up yeah so that's also kind of how to prep individuals but most of the time when we have people for press conferences they've been doing this it's a lot of detectives or we have the tenants or you know sergeants sometimes they've been doing this and they know the subject matter like Amanda said so we don't have to prep them too much just just like a it'll kind of over yeah cleaning it up a little bit so it's not too much information or an overwhelming amount of information that maybe the media doesn't care about it's just kind of putting the details succinctly so that um you get all of the information that's necessary but it's not a epic long-winded story okay right it's not a feature length film exactly so that's basically it i mean we do if we do a press conference in here and out in the because it could happen anywhere yeah out in the field we've done some we try to have a quick brief like i said just to put together who's going to talk when what we're going to talk about and um anticipated questions and that's with all parties involved yeah just not the main one talking that's it's everybody's their kernel if there's a major crimes detective if there's you know a cpi of a certain advocate or something like that yeah so i mean sometimes even we have to get prep for press conferences i've only done one talk well i've done sound ones i don't want to do i i mean it has done it quite often i do it a couple times a week yeah at least my most recent one was out in the field actually last week so we had a um potential bomb threat at a hospital yep that oh yep and actually our boss had to prep me for that which was an interesting dynamic yeah because he's normally he's normally very hands-off but it was he and i on the scene with two bosses yeah it was he and i on the scene with um some uh fire rescue and some other folks out there and it was it was different to be prep by your boss when you're normally doing the project no i do my best anytime i there's the possibility of me i do my best to figure out whoever's on the case to get them to come in or amanda yes if they can't because i also feel like my hands weren't on the case they can talk about it better than i can because i will just read you what is on the paper and then i don't even want to do that so then amanda does it people don't understand i feel like the media is different than talking to this camera it's completely different but uh those were amanda's questions kind of our questions so on to the next set thanks okay so i know that was a really long video i thank you to all of you that watched the whole thing or i thank you to those that participated and sent in your questions i tried to get to most of them but it was you see already see how long this video was as is but if you haven't already done so like comment and subscribe and i 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