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"The new police recruits. Call them slobs. Call them jerks. Call them gross. Just don't call them when you're in trouble." - Police ACademy, 1984
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong" - Warren Buffett
And towards the end of the day...
Wednesday, 30 January 2008
- Stop right there! The yonger bloke runs away as the older bloke walks towards me. I look at my three colleagues running after the younger bloke and suddenly I have a strongly built bloke walking calmly towards me. I'm alone. He scares me. The calm on his stride and face scares me. - Keep your hands away from your pockets! I say as calmly as I can, bringing out the first thing I can reach, my spray. He puts his hands up looking right into my eyes. For a second we stare at each other and I am awfully aware of the fact that I'm in plain clothes, no stab vest or uniform and only my spray for consolation. I won't back down, I won't look away.Suddenly my radio blares, my call sign is shouted followed by the information that the younger male had been detained. I approach the older bloke, pull my cuffs out of the harness and cuff him. I feel a lot more comfortable now and carry on to search him. This normally wouldn't happen, female searching male but in this situation we have no choice. He told me he had a penknife and I find nothing else of importance. He tells me he was walking past when the younger bloke called him over and offered him some 'green'. I don't believe him but he's not known to the police. He's free to go. The younger bloke is taken back to the station for a more thorough search and I search the area where for any evidence that may have been disposed of. I jump a few fences and discover nothing but a broken bench that I hear was done when he was chased. I note down the complete address of where the bench was broken and return to the station to find that it is exactly the same address that he has given my colleagues. They found nothing on him but it's clear he was selling on his door step.
This sums up the last couple of hours of my day and the last couple of weeks have been almost as exciting. I'm loving this job more and more (and I'm not looking forward to going back to university at all) and as sad as it sounds I don't really wanna go home at the end of the day!! People say it will pass and I will eventually get tired of it but until that day comes I will carry on enjoying the moment!
It's not as bad as I initially thought...We had the last input on the subject of the next assignment today, the actual assignment is due in two weeks but it's actually not too bad. I think it may have something to do with the fact that I have PDU coming up next week but I actually managed to get home today, after having a sly drink with my colleagues, and done lots of work! So much that I actually finished the essay part of it, so for tomorrow I have to make sure it's all in place and do my supporting evidence and references which shouldn't take me more than 3 hours which should allow me plenty of time to sleep and perhaps a cheeky night out! It also gives me some time to revise my powers and do a bit of bedtime reading of the old Blackstones stuff...jolly good!!!
Things are starting to brighten up now that I have almost no university related work to do. It's this feeling that PDU will be a much more enjoyable experience once I'm able to concentrate fully on it.
On the personal side, well, it may not be going so well. I had this horrible feeling of missing something and realised that I had not spoken to Private A since we had a little argument a month or so ago. I miss him. In fact, I feel like I have missed him for most of the time recently.
I've never told the story between Private A and myself but I'd never consider boring you with that now...
This is always the best week of the course when we're all preparing to go off to the PDU again to hit the streets with bags of new powers we recently learnt we have. My next 3-week stage on the beat starts next Tuesday so this last week is all about doing the last of the knowledge checks and sorting out the two other assignments I have to hand in, making sure that I have nothing class room related to worry about when I'm out there making the world a better place! :-D
In the mean time I spent the last weekend working on another assignment that I handed in today and have a week/weekend full of essay writing booked in my diary. There's no going out, no drinking, no having a good and easy life like I use to...my friends are starting to moan and I can see another three weeks of hell on the home life side of things which made me think that I have to arrange some time to spend with them, after all they're the people who made me who I am!!!
My Monday blues have turned in to a week long case and I'm now feeling a little homesick so I reckon I holiday is in the cards, somewhere warm and familiar, like home!!! I have to be there in May anyway for a friend's wedding (the joy's a of a bridesmaid's dress :-D ) so I'm looking forward to a week off in a very secluded beach, hidden away from the world!
I am one big grumpy f**k today! Monday blues, they call it...I call it f***ing Mondays...
Must be post-holiday trauma+new diet+giving up smoking+going back to the gym, all in the same day!
So here we have, another 'God bless Youtube' moment.
***UPDATE*** P**S: I've done my first donation, out of the 12, because on reading this I felt absolutely disgusted at how people treat animals! So the charity of the month is The Redwings Horse Sanctuary!
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