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RAPID AUTOMATION INSPIRES HEROES By Richard Reneau, CLPE I was heading out the door of the office one
evening after 10 hours on the bench (I gotta get a better union), when
an officer stopped me. He appeared to be sweating and had the outward
signs of an Adrenalin rush. I asked our hero what he needed. About all
he could manage was, "The guy ran from me" as he handed me a latent
lift. Noticing his frustration, I told him to come
in and I would help him, if I could. He related the following: Four officers were involved in a car stop --
two of ours and two brand-spanking-new field agents from the FBI. The
field agents needed to be signed off on the proper technique for BOOKING
an arrestee. Apparently, they have two years to complete all of the
training things and this was one of them -- "observe the BOOKING
process." The following happened -- somewhat. The officers had a
detention situation with a car stop, three subjects were involved, two
females and one male. As our hero was questioning the male subject, the
FBI agent shifted position around the car. Our hero sensing that there
maybe something that he didn't see, also shifted position. The male
subject probably though that the interview was over, or he wouldn't have
run from our hero. As the male subject reached a fence and started
over our hero was right on his heels and caught a piece of his shirt.
Knowing that the piece he caught was not going to be enough to pull the
subject back, he turned to see how close the other two FBI agent were to
his position. Much to his surprise, they were still at the car -- in
"stunned observation of the booking mode." It was unclear at the time
whether the FBI agents were stunned at the fact that someone would run
from the FBI or that someone as big as our hero would give chase. The
male subject, however, got away. On his way back to the car he heard the
cheers from his team mates, "Dude, you almost had him." I was thinking
at this point that the encouragement from his team mates probably did
not help our hero in his self-induced adrenalin state . It was unclear
at this point whether being pissed-off, or the humiliation of the
subject running and getting away was the reason for processing the car
for prints. But the two other female subjects were not talking --
further encouraging our hero to invoke the CSI trump card. This must
have been very scary to the two female subjects and the still stunned
FBI. This was not going to be an “awe-just-let-him-go” situation for our
hero. As the story was being related to me and our
hero was debriefing and decompressing, I was searching the fingerprint
evidence the first database yielding results - the subject, the driver,
was identified. In about an hour our hero left with a photo in hand,
verbal results from me, an existing warrant for $10,000 confirmed, a
look of satisfaction and what appeared to me as a much needed reprieve
from the previous activity. It is only a guess on my part, but 3:00am the
next morning probably came pretty early for the Male subject, who
decided to run. Hit number #101 from 2007. Case complete, recorded, report written and cleared for the next incoming case.
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