 Hi, my name is Lindsay Merford. I'm 27 years old and I live in Hopacon, New Jersey. I didn't always want to be a police officer. I transferred colleges in 2011 to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina and the first semester I decided to take a three-month-long life guarding course and I started to think about it and I realized, hey, I love helping people on the beach so why don't I, you know, progress that farther and help people in a bigger way. So I became a police officer and I never looked back. Then she worked on the beach patrol and she got there and at the time you didn't, you know, I guess know what happens but he apparently had a really severe heart attack but if it wasn't for her, for those first critical minutes of getting there first and starting to work on the guy, so he, the guy survived. Since I was a little girl I wanted to write things that made people smile and made people think and encourage others. Most recently I took up a platform for police relations. I wanted to help police officers and children gain trust with each other so I wrote Paul the police dog and it helps connect with the children and their communities across the world. It's so hard because everything she does is give back, she'll write a book and give out 10. You know, she writes one, she'll order 20, end up giving 15 away for nothing. This is my rock star because everything I mentioned before, she, I don't know where I'd be without her. I work eight hours, I come home and I'm exhausted to do anything. She works, she works full-time, she still manages to take care of the house, she publishes her books, goes back to I guess inspiring me about being a better person because it doesn't matter how much she works, she'll always find time for somebody else to write in their day. She gives me, you know, she gives me and other people around her a reason, you know, to be happy and enjoy life. Either the men that I worked with or the men in the communities would look down upon me and be like, oh, she's just a skinny girl. We can, you know, walk all over her. So it took me a long time to prove myself in that field and I eventually gained so much respect from my brothers in blue and the people in the community and I just want all of the women in the world to know that you can do whatever you set your mind to no matter how small you think you are or no matter what job you're doing as long as you put forth determination and passion, you can do anything in the world.