[garryc]

Yesterday I went on an inmate transport to the local hospitals emergancy room. The other officer was a 23yr old black girl with 7months in the department. As I watched the inmate, she went to the restroom. Moments later she returns with a trooper. Apparently she was walking by a croud of people with her sidearm fully exposed, her hand by her face. The trooper reported the incident to my shift commander. When I got back he went up MY!! a##. Saying that I was the senior officer and I should have been supervising her. I ain't no LT. and wasn't there at the time.
This underscores my long time complaint, that I've put in writting several times, that the ODR+C should spend considerable time teaching weapons retention. our training is about 20 minutes long. Dismal training that will one day come back to bite them. The department is run by liberals and we spend 5 times more time learning PC crap as usefull info. Yeah This was a RANT