Personal Narrative: An Interview With A Police Officer

My goal was to find a police officer who was willing to take me on a ride along and be ready to answer any questions I had about the portable body worn video/audio recorders the department recently purchased for the police officers to wear, as well as some questions about his personal life, previous education and his current job.
The Onset I contacted the Petaluma Police Department which is my hometown located approximately 100 miles north of Sacramento. I had mentioned to them about wanting to do a ride along and an interview with a police officer and they provided me with three different officers contact information. I emailed all three of them and about a week had gone by and I hadn’t gotten a response from any of them. I called the department again and asked for the …show more content…
I emailed him and luckily, the police officer responded back to me two days later and was willing to take me on a ride along. He asked for my phone number and he called me a couple hours later. I explained to him the class project and to my surprise he actually seemed pretty excited about it. We set up a date and time that worked for both of us. He asked me to bring anything I needed for the project and to wear layers since he works swing shifts and it would get cold outside. He seemed to really want to help me and was looking forward to it which was exactly what I was looking for; an officer who would be open and ready to answer any questions I had. Before we got off the phone, he did ask me for my full name, date of birth, driver license number and asked permission to run my information through a database. I was nervous because I had never gone on a ride along before but, he seemed like a really nice and outgoing guy which made me feel better. He called me the day before to confirm that we would still be doing the ride along and nothing had changed since the last time we talked which really surprised me and made me feel like he was really