suncat05
02-26-2014, 09:03 AM
and I was afraid it was going to happen here.
The call came out from our dispatcher as a student has a gun and has threatened to shoot someone.
I was sitting at my desk in the Courthouse. The school is the next block over from the Courthouse. I responded, along with several other patrol units. Upon arrival (about 30 seconds later) I discovered that it was not a current student at all, but a former student that is working on the new school construction site. Apparently he and his construction foreman had a difference of opinion and passed some angry words. No witnesses on site said anything about threatening to shoot anyone, and there was no gun that I could discern. Our former student in question let me pat him down, no gun found on his person, which is a good thing because he is a convicted felon, and if he would have had one that's a free ride to jail, on the house. No gun, however, which is a good thing. Just an argument between an employee and the job site foreman.
But as is the case with any dispatched call for service, this was received by dispatch and dispatched as one thing and it ended being something a little different than what it was dispatched as. Never fails.
I thought today might be that day that I never want to happen here. Or anywhere else either. Thank God it wasn't.
The call came out from our dispatcher as a student has a gun and has threatened to shoot someone.
I was sitting at my desk in the Courthouse. The school is the next block over from the Courthouse. I responded, along with several other patrol units. Upon arrival (about 30 seconds later) I discovered that it was not a current student at all, but a former student that is working on the new school construction site. Apparently he and his construction foreman had a difference of opinion and passed some angry words. No witnesses on site said anything about threatening to shoot anyone, and there was no gun that I could discern. Our former student in question let me pat him down, no gun found on his person, which is a good thing because he is a convicted felon, and if he would have had one that's a free ride to jail, on the house. No gun, however, which is a good thing. Just an argument between an employee and the job site foreman.
But as is the case with any dispatched call for service, this was received by dispatch and dispatched as one thing and it ended being something a little different than what it was dispatched as. Never fails.
I thought today might be that day that I never want to happen here. Or anywhere else either. Thank God it wasn't.