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Subject: Police travel


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Date Posted: 06:12:17 12/16/02 Mon
In reply to: Patrick 's message, "Travel" on 13:09:51 12/15/02 Sun
 Something is amiss in your posting. I too have traveled the European Continent and you wrong about all police being the same. I've spent several weeks a year with different agencies, learning a little about each and exchanging different viewpoints. For example in England there are 5 different regional police forces and each one has a distinctive uniform and a multitude of different police vehicles. Yes there are national police forces but I don't think anything like that would ever happen here in the US - turf wars even in the aftermath of 9/11 the Fed's hold back on cooperating with local forces. That hopefully will change. You mention going to school for 2-3 yrs., well yeah in England they have police colleges in which a person interested in policing attends with the eye on becoming an officer. In my county in N.Y. you need 2yrs of college as a requirement to take the civil service exam. So lets see thats 2yrs, plus 4+ months for the police academy, and 3-6 months with an FTO (Field Training Officer) in order to complete probation. Education seems to be covered.

Of course there's another little thing called tradition some of which is carried over to honor those going before. It could be the uniform, the badge, the uniform patch, or even the colors chosen for vehicles. Things do get updated and changed over time. My dept goes all the way back to 1763 when the King authorized the town and its officials including constables. So your misconcieved notion that all agencies should be the same is a little bizzare. Various states establish "laws" or "rules" spelling out requirements for police depts., vehicles, etc. While each state may have some differences, we are all one of many even thou we might wear; blue, green, black uniforms or drive a rainbow of colored vehicles with several choices of lights. We are the "Thin Blue Line". I personally would find it boring if every dept. was the same.
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Before Patrick goes over the edge, let me just remind you that he has said countless times, "LIGHTS colored the same". Not uniforms, cars, etc. (NT)Clarifier08:55:01 12/16/02 Mon
....don't you think?I agree, ......it would be kind of like "socialized" policing,......11:01:13 12/16/02 Mon

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