Monday, January 08, 2007

Week 22 / Day One

Really interesting first day, to put it mildly.

Less admin, more action!

Too tired to blog terribly much, but briefly...

Exciting, disorientating and tiring!

Highlights/notables:
  • One for the album - my first ever patrol job? A cheery one. Attempted drug/alcohol overdose. Attended with paramedics, having been called by care worker. Person was severely depressed and suicidal.
  • Riding in a police car at high speed with blue lights flashing and sirens sounding, is just as cool as you ever imagined it would be. No-doubt the novelty will wear off pretty soon, but for now...
  • Breath-tested my first driver.

My tutor seems like a sound bloke, I think we'll get on well. He also lives in the same town so we'll plan to car-share to work, saving me some petrol-money at least.

Today was a day shift, tomorrow we're on 22:00 through 07:00 the following morning.

So, how to approach the night shift...

Stay up late tonight?

Stay up all throughout tomorrow?

Sleep during the day?

There goes the body-clock...

3 comments:

Roses said...

It sounds like you've made a good start on your career. Well done.

Inspector Monkfish said...

Excellent! :)

I hope today (tonight) has gone at least just as well :)

Where were you riding to in the police car? :)

I just got back in from a wander and saw a police van go zooshing past with its lights flashing :) So let us know whether it's only half as much fun tonight, with no sirens :)

Oh, and what were the results of the breath test? :)

Hope it was another fantastic day :)

Northerner said...

Just as much fun riding shotgun in a policecar without sirens & blue lights going. As for results, can't elaborate on that I'm afraid...

Thanks again for all the best wishes y'all!