-: My name is Kate Russman
and I am a police officer.
So my day starts with checking emails
to see anything that happened on the previous shifts.
We'll check logs to see if there's anything
that needs to be followed up on
and then once we have the information
of what happened before
then we'll go out typically
and we'll do some extra patrols
in the area of the school if it's a weekday.
Monitor traffic, look for traffic violations
and then respond to calls for service
in the different areas of the city.
Calls vary from very minor things.
We do vehicle lockouts for people who's keys
are in their vehicle,
to a retail theft at a store,
to neighbor disputes
from somebody's leaves are blowing into their neighbors lawn
all the way up to, you know,
domestic violence,
you know, batteries, bar fights.
Death investigations.
The whole range.
So if I get a call for a battery somewhere
I could be responding from another call for service already
and if the new call is a higher priority
I would leave and respond to that.
I could be coming from the station.
It could be coming from, you know,
just the car driving around.
So I want to know if it's something
that involves violence, how many people are there?
Is it active?
Has the person left already?
If they left where are they going?
Do they have a vehicle?
Are they on foot?
What do they look like?
How bad are the injuries?
There's a lot of questions running through your mind
as you begin to respond to a scene like that.
There's typically several hours of paperwork afterwards
where you have to document who was all involved,
where do they live,
what was the crime that was committed.
And then documenting all of the actions that occurred
that fit that crime, those criminal elements.
Booking.
Paperwork for the jail if they need medical clearance.
There's a lot that goes along with that.
So typically I have a body camera as well.
Unfortunately, I had to leave it on the charging deck.
So I couldn't bring that with me.
But we also have a squad microphone
that goes with our squad camera
on our uniforms in addition to the body camera.
I have
a radio,
a baton,
my taser,
ammunition,
hand cuffs,
pepper spray,
keys,
firearm and I have a tourniquet, as well.
And I have other medical supplies sort of
tucked away in within my vest.
I'm actually an EMT as well
so I have little bit of advanced training on that.
Flashlights,
notebook paper,
chapstick.