 I'm looking forward to the challenge to helping Chief White create the new structure of the police department and to move it forward. I was promoted to commander in September of 2003 where I took command of district one. It's northwest Denver. My bilingual skills served me greatly in that community. I served there until January of 2007 when I was made division chief and I took command of the special operations division. I served in that capacity until May of 2010 when I made a lateral move over to the patrol division which was my last assignment. I think the desire to want to help others is embedded in all of us. I just think it's important for the community to look at us not just as the people in the blue suits in the cars but as human beings and personalize that we do have feelings, we do make mistakes and we're there to serve. I think depending on the cultures that you deal with they have different views of law enforcement and we have the greatest law enforcement system in the world and I just think it's important for us to be able to reach out to all segments of the community. Again being bilingual helps me to do that on a daily basis. I have high expectations of myself and I carry that onto the people that I supervise and really I just would like people to continue doing their job like I know they're capable of doing. In the eighth grade I actually took an aptitude test and I scored high for serving in law enforcement and I kind of took an interest to it so I started to do some research and talk to people, officers in the district that I lived in, that I grew up in which is District 4. As a fact I remember as a young high schooler talking to an officer who ended up, I ended up working with him in District 4. As a recruit officer once graduating from the academy going to District 4 you are just nervous as heck. I remember walking in with probably more stuff than I needed carrying a briefcase and everybody's looking at you because you and your fellow classmates are the only ones who are pressed and ready to go especially on that morning shift. Everybody's drinking coffee and we're standing at attention ready to go and I just remember my TO at the time just kind of looking at me and telling me not to touch anything until he was ready to tell me what to touch. It was winter and this training officer is just, I'm sure just beside himself looking at this kid who's 22 years old and not knowing anything according to him and I remember getting, we didn't have computers in the cars obviously so I remember having a log sheet that I just kept making mistakes on and I think he set me up because he took the whiteout and he put it right by the heater and towards the end of the day he asked me to fix this so as I opened up the whiteout it exploded and I had all this whiteout on my pressed and ready to go uniform so I was quite embarrassed walking back into the station like that and I think everybody knew what he had done because obviously I wasn't the first victim of that.