Author Archives: RJ Beam

Police Interview Tips (part 1)

Police interview

Today I spent the day on an interview panel talking to police recruit after police recruit about why they want to be a police officer. I did police interviews a few weeks ago also. Next week I will have a day of doing police interviews also. All I have to say is my head hurts, just thinking about next week ...

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Pierce turns 100

This past weekend Pierce Manufacturing, the makers of some of the best Fire Engines and other Fire apparatus on Earth celebrated their 100th birthday.  Pierce shares their home with me in the Fox Valley area of Wisconsin.

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Facebook hates Cops

Facebook Ban

Recently my friends over on LEWTFM posted a news story to their FB Page. This news story got reported by someone and earned the page admin a banning. Oh wait, no it earned multiple of the page admins a banning. So for 30 days most of the staff of this FB page is blocked from being on Facebook.

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Safety Shower for Storage, a necessary tip?

Catching up on some unread emails when I stumbled on a real gem. I know this tip is serious and there is an important reason for it. But you would think that common sense should dictate don’t store police evidence in a lab safety shower.

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