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Change is always good right?
I walked into the station today and saw a piece of paper posted outside of the downstairs roll call room. I’m not particularly sure why I was even downstairs, since we have our debriefings upstairs if and when we actually have them, but I was downstairs nonetheless.
Walking closer to the paper I noticed it was a transfer list; a piece of paper with the names of Officers / Sergeants / ect.. that were being put in different places around the County.
Hmm, getting closer I was almost on top of it when I saw Chocolate bears name.
Someone decided to place him into the CST unit (our sister unit) without telling anyone about it. Effective this monday, my partner will be on a different squad, in plain clothes and in an unmarked unit doing surveillance and sting operations.
Very cool but at the same time I felt kind of torn. I was in the academy with this guy, we started in the same district together on midnights, worked our way over to the most dangerous district together and even got onto the same Jumpout unit, having ridden as a two man unit most of the way.
All that means to me is that my partner won’t be my partner anymore, for now. I’ll probably be the next person transfered to that unit since that is how the Department I work for normally operates. We’ll see.
I of course called him up and told him the news, which he wasn’t to thrilled about but nonetheless excited about the change. I’m sure he’ll do fine. Then again, its kinda of hard to hide a 6’3 240lbs man no matter what size the under cover car.
On top of him being moved, I saw we’re getting a new Lieutenant. Not a good thing. Every 6 months or so we get a new Lieutenant and basically have to prove ourselves as a justifiable unit all over again to a person that has no idea what we actually do. The last Lieutenant we had, we basically had to catch 5 armed robbery subjects without aviation or road units just to mildly impress. Our current Lieutenant took a few weeks to warm up to us but she’s been behind us 100% since then.
From what I’ve been told, the new LT isn’t the best apple in the bunch. In fact, he isn’t even an apple as far as most are concerned. Something they said about him being ‘kicked out’ of every district he’s been placed in every 6 months or so said all I needed to hear. Crap.
I went and reported to my Sarge all the info I’d just learned only to walk up to him as he was already mid-rant about it to the the rest of the squad.
Serves me right for being only 10 minutes early.
I’m still where I’m at and not planning on any moves in the near future.
The lead detective from auto-theft approached me again last week complaining about his current and only partner being a moron that rarely even shows up for work. Man I would love to have been on that unit. There is still time for me to learn from the best there is in the County before we get transfered out to different districts in December. The man, the myth and living legend of Auto-theft, Huff, is the best damn detective I’ve ever seen. He can spot a stolen car in a single glance on a random street. He can get into and start any and all vehicles in seconds. This man knows more about stealing cars then the thieves do, which is why he can catch them so often.
I’ll one day surely have the opportunity to work with him but until then, I’m busting my rear end in what I do now, chase armed bad guys.
Speaking of armed bad guys, the past three weeks have really been slow. I suppose the constant rain has had something to do with that, being that none of the baddies wanna get wet. Doesn’t really bother me and it gives me a little break to catch up on my other pursuits of interest, such as intel gathering and whatnot.
Also, the new guy on the squad that just started here about a month ago, is already annoying the Sarge. At the end of today’s shift I was upstairs alone with my Sarge helping to install a new computer he’d bought for his desk when he started talking about the new guy.
He said, “Hey Dash, I’ve been meaning to ask you. What do you think about the new guy? Does he seem to self absorbed about things?”…
I replied with, “Well, he’s still adjusting to how we function and I can understand that. I do however see him sort of snuffing some orders you give out when we get onto scenes. You know, like he wants to call the shots even though you’ve already called them.”
Sarge then told me, “Yea, I don’t know man. I feel like he’s not really panning out. He doesn’t seem to understand what we’re doing out here and still acts like he’s a road unit going call to call, but with a superior complex thing going on.”
We left it at that and I finished what I was doing. Sarge said to call it a night and head home.
On the way home, I was listening to one of my favorite songs, ‘The sound of silence’ remade by Emiliana Torrini. Nothing really beats a beautiful voice singing a great song.
On that calm and collected note, I’m hitting the sack.
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