CARRIE DEVORAH > FIRST RESPONDERS Home And AbroadLONDON FIRE BRIGADE RESPONDING TO CALL At times I would grab tea with the blokes in the white and black tiled station kitchen. One night they graced me with a ride-a-long back to my flat in a long ladder truck. Things they told me, I remembered. World wasnt ready to hear it....
First Responders Highly trained firemen respond to all types of calls at all sorts of hours. I recall the sunday morning, 4:00am, they arrived and saved Anna. Anna recalls the morning too. Tears in her eyes, she acknowledges they saved her life.
BOBBIES CELL PHONE ID PROGRAM HITS THE COBBLESTONES The Bobbies mobile van brought cell phone ID'ing to the streets because of poor show at stations. Individuals phones were marked in case stolen. People feared the program marked them. In light of terrorism, maybe phones should be marked before being sold.
MPDC's HOCKEY SCRIMMAGE Brett had a scar on his forehead. I thought maybe it came from his job as an officer. Seems it came from his after hours fun with fellow officers at a rink in NE DC putting a much needed enforcement presence in the neighborhood.
FATHER SAL Enforcement's Chaplain Father Sal dared I couldnt get his bike buddy and bike into one frame, an interesting dare to a snapper who got the Bobbie's recruitment number flat when Vince the horse pierced the paper wall. I thought Father's license said Messenger. It is Monsiegneur
OFFICER WEEKS AND HER MOTHER Officer Weeks was walking up New Hampshire with an elder woman in tow, her mother. Mrs. Lewis says her daughter Linda celebrates Mother's Day with her often. They looked at each other. One knew they valued today. Sometimes tomorrows never come.
FATHER SAL'S MASS ON K STREET He arrived on his bike with its Offier Bike Buddy attached on the antenna. Slowly the officers arrive. Those who cannot be there are miked in tthrough Padre's radio. It is Sunday morning. Within the hours, the protest begins. Protesters overlook sabbath..
US CAPITOL HISTORICAL SOCIETY HONORS CAPITOL POLICE'S FALLEN HEROES The US Historical Society along with the Capitol Police and the White House Commission on Rememberance honored Sgt Eney, Officer Chestnut and Special Agent Michael with presence on the 2006 Christman ornament and calendar. Never to be forgot.
THE UNITED STATES CAPITOL POLICE HORSES Congress voted to eliminate the US Capitol Police mounted. The officer driving the van said they will be transferred to Park Police in 18 days. With gas going up, could have kept them, fed them and converted their natural methane to fuel, I think....
911 HEROES AWARD DAY AT THE WHITE HOUSE Only days after a new breed of sworn heroes emerged from a hurricane hell in a city teasingly known as Dante's Inferno, New Orleans, the country stopped for a nano to recall men and women who gave their eternities for their city, country and neighbor
CAPITOL POLICE JAMES ROHAN TRANSFERS RESPONSIBILITY TO INCOMING ASSISTANT CHIEF CHRIS McGAFFIN Police officers are men soft in heart for their community, family and leaving friends. Two decades plus in service to the United States Capitol didnt toughen Assistant Chief Rohan. The higher they rank, the easier they tear up at "see ya's"...
