Traffic deputy misfit?

Can anyone that actually KNOWS the circumstances surrounding the following incident(s) please clear this up!! A few days ago over lunch, I was told that a certain female traffic deputy was doing 10-50's on MARKED patrol cars as they were running 10-18 GOING TO CALLS!! I also heard that the supervisors of the deputy(ies) who were stopped were contacted and he/she/they said they would take care of this rediculous behavior. I can only assume that meant they would contact the rogue traffic deputy's supervisor (not sessions!) but I haven't heard anything more about it. Was that done? Is there any truth to any of this? If so, LR, you need to check yourself because I will warn you now....if I'm running 10-18 to a hot call and you try to pull me over, #1 i'm not stopping for you...i guess you'll just have to follow me to my call. #2 when i get to my call, if you try to interfere with me doing my job, you'll find yourself handcuffed in the back of my car....try explaining that one to your supervisor!

Funny I view this page on the day you write this little article.

First of all, I am the female traffic deputy that you are mentioning. Second of all, get your facts straight before you assume that I am doing something that I am not.

My sergeant along with my unit were running speed enforcement in the area when a patrol unit was driving 89, 90+ mph with NO lights, NO siren in a posted 55 mph during the July 4th weekend. My Sgt had asked who the unit was on the radio, however, with no response. I was told by my Sgt to stop him, which I did. He told me he was trying to hurry to get to a possible location of a burglary suspect in another part of town. My sergeant then called his and everything was taken care of between supervision. Oh, and since you mentioned, he was a SE unit having to travel through Central to get to where he needed to go back in Southeast.

Let it be known, I will never stop a deputy going lights and siren to a call whether I know the situation or not. Either way, I will try to find out why they are running lights and sirens so I can help them. Unfortunately, with me being on one channel and he on another, I had no clue, along with my Sgt.

This deputy in reference is a great deputy and I think fairly highly of him. Hopefully you will not get him in trouble because you do not have the confidence in yourself to ask or talk to me or any other member who is aware of this situation. You come to a public forum where you shouldn't have. So if you want to straighten this out, come talk to me. Since your in Central, I'm there Monday through Friday.
LR

:devil: :devil: :devil: :devil: HERE IS A BIG GLASS OF SHUT THE F**K UP! :devil: :devil: :devil: :devil:

Very well responded too :)

LR, I don't work for your agency; however I have stopped an UM echo unit for 110 in a 60 on the parkway. His excuse was my wife is running late I have to get my kids.... You do the math...

Some people take the responsibility and power of a patrol car and abuse the hell out of it., but we are the bad people for stopping them.. Go figure..

Geeee.... Another deputy running their mouth about the Sheriff's office traffic unit with out having all the facts. I dont think you have any clue how many deputies we clock daily running 20+ that are either 10-08 or even better 10-85 that we dont pull over or mention on the radio.

Oh and your comment about "when i get to my call, if you try to interfere with me doing my job, you'll find yourself handcuffed in the back of my car....try explaining that one to your supervisor!" The way some of these newer deputies drive you wont have to worry about 10-15'ing any of us on scene, because we will be working your S-4D way before you go 10-97.

I bet also your not aware that our supervision on BOTH sides have told us that they want to be notified of any deputy, civilan, or det. running 30+ over the posted speed limit non 10-18.

Oh also you might want to refresh your memory on the Sheriff's office G.O. on 10-18.

Nuff said if you have issues with the Traffic unit, you are more than happy to speak with anyone of us :evil:

i say disband the entire traffic unit. put the deputies back on patrol shifts. in this day and age of reduced budgets, it doesn't make fiscal sense to have these specialty units. and don't give me that b.s. about the number of fatalities you work. fhp would work all those fatalities if the s.o. didn't get there and cancel them because they were first to get there. its nothing more than a power trip. the s.o. arrives, cancels fhp, then has to wait to call out a quebec unit? no sense in that. scenario should be more like s.o. arrives, provides traffic and crowd control til fhp arrives, then 10-98. its called streamlining our resources folks. we have to re-organize to work smarter and more efficient since our budget will be reduced for the upcoming fiscal year and even more alleged cuts for the following year.

Oh i'm sure FHP would love that :devil: :devil:

WOW.. its been a few months for that subject to be brought back up. As the last person posted im sure FHP would love that hahah since they are running thin as it is. But hey thats fine disban the traffic unit send all of us back to patrol, but dont complain when your sector partner is sitting on the scene of a fatal waiting 2+ hours for FHP to respond. Cause of course since we have no traffic units FHP will be responding to a lot more crashes in Polk. Oh and one last thing I hope you dont enjoy all the advance training we get from PSC (PCC) cause no traffic unit the to help generate funds back to the college you can kiss those granted funded classes good bye.

WHY ? Why must we bicker about petty stuff? If you read the top 3 announcements, 2-Oklahoma deupties killed, 3-Colorado offiers shot, 1 killed.. 1-Border patrol agent killed..I believe thats a tad bit more important than this.. and besides we all know these G.O's mentioned only apply to deputies because I, like many of you I assume, have been driving in 98s or the prky and been blown off the road by an unmarked supervisor car heading to the main S.O. or up to the n/e district ( which goes hand-in-hand with the recent incident involving a n/e LT who blew the engine of his NEW impala while driving ... how fast was it ?? ) anyways.. Im going to get a new tattoo below the sleeve and some gold teefs..... WHO's WITH ME :devil: ..... stick it to the man I say :evil:

you think the majority of actual call-answering, working deputies are getting to go to those advanced training classes? gimme a break. the shifts are too short to allow that, thanks to the creation of so many different specialty units. go to those classes and look at the people attending. its mostly always the precious specialty units sitting in those seats. other agencies, from areas with a larger tax base, are having to cut back and re-organize manpower. many of those agencies are disbanding specialty units. we will have to do the same. you "special" deputies who don't like and have never liked to 10-65 better adapt because the time is coming. unless it starts raining money.

No matter what we say some people survive on pure hate for everything. I think it was wrong to say a name on here. If you are going to be man enough to say someone elses name be man enough to sign it.

We are accountable for our actions and if you are going to be dumb and drive stupid pay up and sign the ticket. This isnt an episode on tv. If you get shot out here you die, you wont come back on a different show. This is your life as well as mine so tighten up and put your head in the game. Stop crying over petty things and put in for a specialty squad and then make up your mind after you have worked 36 hours straight or got off at midnight to get called out at 3 am to work the entire next day.

I have in the past worked with LR. I have never had any problems and don't have a bad thing to say. As for the D/S who is all set to make an arrest, GOOD LUCK explaining that to superv. I'm sure you thought that dumb move through I wouldn't be smart enough to know what to say.

WELL,
I have read all the post, I wondered to myself who wrote what. It is obvious some have more understanding of the issues while others do not. I will comment that we should not air such petty complaints in such a public forum. Further, I agree there have been in these past days more important things to consider than the complaint that started this thread of posts. Still I want to weigh in my 2-cents!

If we disband every specialty unit, how many deputies will every shift receive? Considering there are five districts and four shifts per district what are the actual advantages? One maybe two deputies per shift!

Then consider the work load currently handled by these specialty units will fall on the patrol shifts; the parade escorts, traffic details, school crossings, public PR events, community meetings, traffic crashes (FHP cant responded to), special details as directed by staff, SUN-n-FUN, minor investigation which are to time consuming to be assigned CURRENTLY to the shifts, callouts to fulfill some need which arose at the last moment, and any other odd ball event or need which comes down the pipe!

Now consider how many people will have to be pulled from a shift or shifts to cover such needs. In the end, I believe the shifts will not benefit. Speaking from experience, the shifts will actual come up shorter than they are now.

I have an idea for everyone, before you point fingers at others or sling mud on a public forum; try some time in a specialty unit. I have, I learned patrol is the best-kept secret. However, it seems too many do not know what they have and speak out of turn about what they do not know. Therefore, here is just a short comparison for your consideration:

Patrol=a set 12 hour day 14 days a month with full knowledge of days off and no callout.

Specialty unit= no set hours or days, schedule changes at the last moments, call out (PS, for which traffic does not get "on call" pay for!!!), the handling of events and details which are not within the units stated function, assisting with search warrants, painting over graffiti ,dignitary escorts, funeral escorts, SUN-n-FUN security, check points, strike forces, task forces, and any other "blanking" force which can be invented, moving furniture between substations, and delivery intra office mail or special correspondences. (The Traffic unit also does not get HOLIDAYS OFF, NONE AT ALL!!!!! They can not even use vacation time during the holidays: Not Christmas, Thanksgiving, Memorial day, Labor day, 4th of July, New years eve or day. Sorry Honey tell the kids to save me a burger Ill be home after the celebrations)

Just food for thought,
a Younglion

I couldnt agree more guest.. good call