Now you see me, now you don't......

Ok, so I started this blog last year when I was working as a police officer in Ohio. I posted only a few times, and then my life was kinda turned all sorts of sideways. Believe it or not, I had a really good reason for not posting about the life and times of a police officer in these fifty states anymore. Simply stated, I wasn’t a cop anymore. My wife had been offered a major promotion at her job, which required her (us) to move out of state. After accepting the transfer and the promotion, her moving out of state with me soon to follow as soon as I found a job, I then find out that my Ohio certification is no good in the new state. How AWESOME is that? So, I found myself without work and holding no state certification to do pretty much the only thing that I know how to do. 

So, I decided to go back to school full time for my bachelor’s degree (yeah, her promotion was a pretty good one) until I figured out what I was going to do. Nine months later, going out of my mind with boredom, I finally got another job in Law Enforcement. I have just been hired by a local Sheriff’s department here in my new state and will be starting soon enough. The down side to that is that I have to go back through the basic police academy all over again, which I am not looking forward to. The up side is that I will be back in a job that I love…and they are going to pay me through the academy, so I guess I can’t complain too much. 

Going back through the basic academy after being on the road for a few years is going to be quite the experience I bet. Every cop knows that there is the “academy way” and the “way that works.” More often than not, these are two different ways, depending on the people that you deal with in your municipality. So, I have some bad habits to break, I have some new things to learn, and I have a lot of BS that I am going to have to put up with, but in the end, I am still thankful to have a job and be back in the game. 

So, I guess this blog might just be going from life and times as a police officer to life and times of going from police officer, to academy cadet/recruit, to deputy sheriff. I don’t expect the academy to be too tough seeing as these are all things that I have done before, but you know what they say about assumptions. This is my final week of freedom before starting the new job. I hope to post once a week or so once things get rolling, so stand by! In the meantime, feel free to leave a question or comment for me.