Blog 18: 2 Hour Meeting Answer 3

1) How can an officer best handle a life-threatening situation?

2) The proper and efficient use of police equipment will keep an officer out of harm's way.

3)

• Knowing how your equipment works, from radios to your service weapon, will protect you from danger since that is one of their purposes. 
• Anything an officer carries on him is meant to help him and victims, so the greater amount of knowledge they have on each will allow them to use their equipment more effectively.
• Today's criminals are becoming more dangerous as they aquire more powerful tools of destruction, so any advantage over them must always be used, and in this case that is the proper and efficient use of police equipment.

4) Mentor: Officer Jaycon Sanchez

5) I plan to get more experience with all the police equipment at my disposal at my mentorship. This ranges from becoming more proficient with radios and radio codes to knowing how to perform first aid and CPR. My test to see how effective improved knowledge with such things will be an evaluation on how much they help me out on my ride alongs with the officers. 

Blog 17: Fourth Interview Questions

1) How can an officer best handle a life-threatening situation?
2) Would you say that good communication skills is a key part of law enforcement?
3) How important would you say that effective communications is?
4) Can you tell me of a time when communcation helped you out in a situation?
5) Can you tell me how to improve on the type of communcation skills you use as an officer?
6) In your opinion what is essential to handling a life-threatening situation, your training from the academy or effective communications? Why?
7) Besides good communications and utilization of academy training, what would you say is essential to an officer handling a life threatening situation and why?
8) How often do you encounter a situation where better communication could have completely changed the outcome?
9) What is effective communications to you as a police officer?
10) Do you believe that being skilled in the equipment that is given to you as an officer is essential to handling a life threatening situation? Why?
11) Where would you say that that skill in proper use of your equipment comes from?
12) How does one improve in becoming more efficient in use of police equipment?
13) Can you tell me of a time where proper use of police equipment saved someones life or kept a situation from becoming worse?
14) Between inadequete training in equipment, poor communication skills, and ineffective use of training, what places the officer most in danger?
15) What would you say is the most difficult type of person for an officer to communicate with?
16) Besides the officer, who else would you say benefits from an officer who can communicate well?
17) In your opinion, what would you say gets officers in the most trouble as far as a situation and why?
18) Would you say its accidental or something that some officers are more prone to?
19) For the officers that are prone to these type of situations due to their habit or nature, how would you assist them in fixing that?
20) What is the first thing and the most key thing you do that helps you analyze a life threatening situation before and as it transpires?

Blog 16: 2-Hour Meeting Answer # 2

1) How can an officer best handle a life-threatening situation?

2) Effective communication with fellow officers will best help an officer handle a life-threatening situation.

3)

• Communication is key to teamwork with your partners in the field.
• Effective communication neccessary to working with other police departments, especially in large scale operations.
• Proper relay of orders to suspects can cause them to surrender peacefully.

4) My time at the STARS academy and at my post have given me insight into making this one of my answers.

5) I plan to continue my study of answer 2 by doing in the field work with my post and analyzing how to make communication the most effective.

Blog 15: Independent Component 2 Approval

1) Being that communication, especially teamwork, with your partners is essential to handling a life-threatening situation, I plan on exploring how to make that more effective. Sometimes you will have to work with members of other departments whom you have never interacted with before, so learning how to overcome this barrier is key to saving lives. I plan on doing this by improving the communication I have with the partners at my post as we practice scenarios. The other part will be done by working with the new applicants we have at our post by exploring how to convey orders to the unfamiliar in a way that works best.

2) My post meets for 5 hours every other Wednesday, but sometimes we will move to every Wednesday depending on everyones schedule. We also work weekend details for varying hours. At that rate I will be done fairly soon.

3) As stated before, effective communications is essential to handling a life-threatening situation, and by exploring it I will definitely find an answer to my EQ.

Blog 14: Independent Component 1

Literal
a) I, Jared Gonzales, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.
b) Officer Jaycon Sanchez
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c) Mentorship Log
d) Completed my 18 week training at the Sheriff's Training and Regional Services Explorer Academy, attended my weekly meetings at Baldwin Park PD Explorer Post # 654, worked 2 events (a Christmas event and the Rose Bowl), and went to my first competition at Chandler, Arizona.

Interpretive
For my 18 week program, I would have to wake up at 4:00 A.M. to make it to class at 6:00 A.M. and it would last all the way until 5:00 P.M. The program was not easy in any way easy to complete and required me to sacrifice 18 weekends, yet in the end it was worth it. On top of this, I had to attend my weekly meetings on Wednesdays which lasted 4-5 hours. At these meetings I would physically train for half the time with my post and then we would spend the rest of the time practicing for competition at Chandler, Arizona. All my work came together in one weekend (January 19-21) when I graduated from the academy and then immediately traveled to Chandler to compete.

 Day 1 at the Academy

 Day 1 at the Academy

 Me getting my head shaved.

 Teambuilding activity.

 Classroom time.

Colors Run.

Personal Defense Training.

Firearms Training.

CPR Training

Getting thrashed by the Drill Instructors.

My graduating class.

Applied
Since my Independent Component was training exactly mimicking that actually given to deputies, it was the best possible foundational work for my topic of law enforcement. It not only taught me facts and information, but also prepared me physically and ultimately gave me the officer's perspective. Everything from the drill formations, to the physical training and runs, the classroom work, the firearms training and CPR, and the hands on police scenario's has given me an indepth look at law enforcement usually reserved just for those who attend the actual academy and graduate.