 Well, good morning. I'm Paul Payson and a real brief history on myself is I was born and raised in Denver. I am very fortunate that I actually grew up in North Denver. As a young child, I grew up right across the street from District 1 when District 1 was located in Jefferson Park. Upon graduating high school from Denver North High School, I joined the United States Marine Corps, served for five years including a stint in the Gulf War. Upon finishing my enlistment with the Marine Corps, I was hired by the Denver Police Department on January 2nd of 1995. I was upon graduation from the Police Academy. I was assigned to Southeast Denver District 3. I worked as a patrol officer. I was selected for the district's impact team or SCAT team is how we refer to it now. I was also selected as a neighborhood police officer and promoted to a field training officer where I trained new recruits. I was also able to attend the three-month SWAT training on the job training and after an extensive interview process was selected to become a full-time member of the SWAT team. That was an absolute joy. It was exciting to go to work each and every day and like now I had a smile as I went to work each day. I was promoted to Sergeant and worked or was assigned to District 2 in Northeast Denver. I absolutely loved the community and the neighborhoods that encompass District 2. I worked a very busy sector. I was selected to lead the District 2 Power Shift which was a fantastic assignment and then with some guidance and coaching from some tremendous command officers that the Denver Police Department has had over the years was advised to put in for internal affairs. I did go to internal affairs and learned quite a bit about discipline, about accountability, about customer service from a whole different perspective and my assignment in internal affairs has been invaluable as a command officer for the Denver Police Department. I was again promoted to Lieutenant and fortunately was assigned to my home neighborhood where I grew up in Northwest Denver and I've served in Northwest Denver for nearly the past six years. Then through the selection process that Chief White has developed and utilizing the stakeholders I was selected to now Command District 1 and this is the culmination of a dream come true. Well here we're going to talk a little bit about family history and I can trace this service gene back to my grandmother, my grandmother Lola. Lola Trujillo and every one of her kids or grandkids lead a life of service. I have parents, I have aunts and uncles and cousins and if you look at their lives they're all dedicated to a life of service. So this is something that is essentially in the blood and I embrace that because there is no job in the entire world that I would rather do than be a Denver Police Officer. Growing up in District 1 in that close proximity to the old police station is something that has helped ignite that passion. So I'm passionate about making Northwest Denver a safer, more vibrant place for people to live, work and play. My commitment is deep in order to ensure that these folks get the best possible police service that they deserve and I think that over the past five years we have done that and we're only going to build upon it. We want to take that to the next level in collaboration with the rest of the city agencies and the city services to make sure that Northwest Denver is a fantastic place to raise a family. Our job is to meet our citizens, our residents, our business leaders' needs and then when they think that we're already doing what they want then raise that bar again and try to essentially make a better life for all of the people that live, work and play in Denver. I'm committed to doing this by constantly reevaluating each and everything that I do as a command officer as well as what our officers do on the calls for service that they handle each and every day and the class two activity that they engage in. We want to make sure that regardless the situation, regardless the call that our officers respond in a professional manner and that after that incident the citizen can say that is a very professional officer and I would want my police or I would want my children to grow up and be Denver police officers and thank the officers for what they did regardless of the outcome.