For my Internship for Iowa Lakes Community College Criminal Justice with the Spirit Lake Police Department I have done a total of 194 hours. I feel like everyone should have a chance at doing an internship before they into the field of law enforcement. The reason that is you learn so much more about how fast things happen and what it’s really all about. School can teach you what you need to know and helps you prepare to get into the field. But being able to be in the field you learn really about how things go and how to handle different calls. Everything that I have done so far has been very beneficial for my experience down the road when I get into the field of law enforcement. During this 48 hours I have done a few new things that has helped
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For a few of my days during this internship I was involved in some of those types of events. One of the first ones I was involved in was the drug take back. This is a nationwide event that happened on October 22 this year. The National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day aims to provide a safe, convenient, and responsible means of disposing of prescription drugs, while also educating the general public about the potential for abuse of medication. It is an event sponsored by the DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency). Our drug take back was set up at the Spirit Lake Hospital. We were there for four hours taking drugs back that community members brought to us. The hospital also held an event on that day to help get community members do learn more about the state of the art equipment they had. It was a four hour-long event. We ended up only getting around 25 lb. of drugs which was a small number because they usually average around 50 lb. One reason for the smaller amount might be because during the spring drug take back they got around 75 lb. of drugs. Also this was the first year they did it at the hospital as they usually did it in the Hy-Vee parking lot. So the change in location could have also been a problem and a result for the lower …show more content…
It was an event for children to trick-or-treat in the downtown businesses of Spirit Lake. The Spirit Lake spirit lake Chamber of Commerce has put on this event for the last few years. It provides a safe way for kids to come downtown during the day and trick-or-treat.. The Spirit Lake Police Department was part of that event. This year Officer Miller and I got to be down there for the event. I got to dress up as Detective McGruff the crime-fighting dog. It is a mascot type of costume. It was really cool to see how excited the kids were when they saw me standing next to Officer Miller. We handed out sticker police badges, tattoos, pencils, and candy. We took so many pictures with kids and their families it was fun to see how happy the kids were to be able take a picture with us. The event only lasted two hours but we saw over 100 kids during that time. Another cool thing I observed was how many people thank you Officer Miller for what he does. It was really great to see the respect people had for the officers in our community. It 's events like the one we did here that let people know please officers are more than just writing you tickets. They are people who help serve and protect your community and become great role models for your children. Its situations like this that make me excited to get into law
For a few of my days during this internship I was involved in some of those types of events. One of the first ones I was involved in was the drug take back. This is a nationwide event that happened on October 22 this year. The National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day aims to provide a safe, convenient, and responsible means of disposing of prescription drugs, while also educating the general public about the potential for abuse of medication. It is an event sponsored by the DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency). Our drug take back was set up at the Spirit Lake Hospital. We were there for four hours taking drugs back that community members brought to us. The hospital also held an event on that day to help get community members do learn more about the state of the art equipment they had. It was a four hour-long event. We ended up only getting around 25 lb. of drugs which was a small number because they usually average around 50 lb. One reason for the smaller amount might be because during the spring drug take back they got around 75 lb. of drugs. Also this was the first year they did it at the hospital as they usually did it in the Hy-Vee parking lot. So the change in location could have also been a problem and a result for the lower …show more content…
It was an event for children to trick-or-treat in the downtown businesses of Spirit Lake. The Spirit Lake spirit lake Chamber of Commerce has put on this event for the last few years. It provides a safe way for kids to come downtown during the day and trick-or-treat.. The Spirit Lake Police Department was part of that event. This year Officer Miller and I got to be down there for the event. I got to dress up as Detective McGruff the crime-fighting dog. It is a mascot type of costume. It was really cool to see how excited the kids were when they saw me standing next to Officer Miller. We handed out sticker police badges, tattoos, pencils, and candy. We took so many pictures with kids and their families it was fun to see how happy the kids were to be able take a picture with us. The event only lasted two hours but we saw over 100 kids during that time. Another cool thing I observed was how many people thank you Officer Miller for what he does. It was really great to see the respect people had for the officers in our community. It 's events like the one we did here that let people know please officers are more than just writing you tickets. They are people who help serve and protect your community and become great role models for your children. Its situations like this that make me excited to get into law