When I started policing in 2003, our police chief was a retired APD officer that had started in the 60s. He told my mandate class about his first night at work. They gave him a uniform, badge, gun, and call box key. The sergeant told him to arrest anyone he sees doing something they shouldn't, then to use the call box to contact the sergeant who would tell him what to charge... The Chief actually was on the street for several months before going to the police academy. How things change!

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