Sheriff's office! What do you want? How can we help you, sir? We got a call. Stay tight. Flash the hallway and get in. In Fundamentals of Patrol, we've been doing scenarios such as dealing with a suicidal subject. You have to act fast, safely, and you can't act on your emotions. So a lot of these scenarios are real life scenarios that they've been through personally. Most of these coaches have been longtime law enforcement 20, 20 plus years. Really makes us understand, like, this is going to happen to us. So this scenario was definitely one of the most impactful for me. So essentially what happened was one of our coaches, they put a hood on us, walk us into a room. We know nothing else besides the fact that we have been hit in the face, we’re knocked out and we're coming to. So they rip the hood off, and next thing you know, you're getting shoved from behind and someone’s saying that they're going to kill you. You have to make that split second decision. Unfortunately, this job, that's part of it as a deputy, but we have to make sure that us as candidates to become a law enforcement officer can handle that stress and also incapacitate a threat if need be. For firearms training, we had two weeks of very extensive training. They teach you how to just be accurate when you're sitting still, stuff like that. Get you moving left and right a little bit and then as you get farther into the course, they start doing things where you're actually moving. You'll be walking and having to fire at targets, or you'll have to move in and out of dummies, but it's supposed to simulate a crowd of people that you're trying to get through to get to whatever suspect is shooting or doing whatever in this situation. Coach Roach really liked to do this thing, right when were getting ready to do the drills, sometimes he would come up behind people and he would just yell as loud as he could. That was a really good way to simulate stress in a situation where people are going to be yelling and running all over the place. Not only are we responsible for taking down threats and protecting other people, but we have to make sure that while we're doing that, we are only hitting the person that we want to hit. We are accountable for every single round that comes out of that gun, no matter the situation. No matter if we're being shot at, if we're being pushed over by other people, it doesn't matter. If we hit something, we are held responsible. So I think it's very important that we practice and maintain good firearms training. we did two weeks of firearms training starting with the basics We went into, drills without any ammunition inside the firearms. And then we eventually got to the range. We were doing recoil management, making sure that we do not slap the trigger, make sure that we have proper trigger reset we also did situations where we had to push through crowds. The coaches would push down on our arms and we had to shoot on target. like, acting as if you're shooting at an active, salient active shooter. And you have individuals trying to approach you. Hey, I need help, I need help. Stuff that might happen. So it was, things that I will never forget. Things that will bring to the job every single day.