Police Department ( Jpd ) - 993 Words

Jeffersontown Police Department (JPD) is a police agency that is committed to community policing and working with the community to ensure safety and peace for all citizen. The JPD jurisdiction is much smaller than the well-known Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) and functions with fewer officers on the streets. Similar to LMPD they have the ability to enforce both local metropolitan laws and state laws. If JPD did not exist there would still be law enforcement in the area, LMPD, but the sense of community policing would decrease dramatically. Along with losing community policing officers would likely be stretched thin and unable to do proactive policing causing crime rates to increase. JPD is responsible for a variety of services†¦show more content†¦These experiences along with training with the special operations group (SOG) was a talking point during my last interview. Although my new job will not require any of this training if I decide the office life is not for me it will prove valuable. Not only in the workforce is this training valuable, but the pistol training I will continue to use at the range in my free time. My second goal of working with specialty units had mixed outcomes. Working with the K-9 unit proved difficult because they were in the process of retiring one K-9 and training a new one. Kimo in the process of being training got kennel cough and was sidelined for a while, but I was able to see the technology of future K-9 work. Officer Wescott has been working on a better way to lift K-9’s into attics with a claw-like pulley system. I learned that K-9 unit although sounds like fun to every animal loving person is not what it is all cracked up to be. Caring for a patrol K-9 can be demanding, training consistently, and you are likely to change partners a few time, but you will always have a partner. I was able to work with detectives one night after a stolen car was recovered along with a juvenile and young adult. The biggest part of this experience was that once you take somebody into an interrogation room they sing like a cannery. The interrogation was over just as fast as it started. I was able to attend two trainings with the special operations group (SOG).