What will you see at criminal justice day?
Local law enforcement.
The bomb robot.
Swat.
FBI.
Police vehicles.
Armored personnel carriers.
Mcgruff.
Self defense.
Traffic safety.
Crime scene investigation and analysis.
And much more.
See dozens of demonstrations and displays.
What will you see at criminal justice day?
Basically what we have here is a 1972 armored personnel carrier made by the US Military.
It is technically called a v100.
It was made for the Vietnam era war and made two year before Vietnam technically stopped.
It is used on average 30 to 40 times a year we use it for any type of high risk search
warrant call out, anything where somebody is going to be armed with a weapon, hostage
negotiation, hostage rescue and also any type of downed officer rescue scenario.
Pretty sparse on the inside as you can see, still very similar to how it was originally
manufactured.
The military specs is a 3 man crew with one driver depending on what type of situation
we have.
Sometimes we have if it is a downed officer rescue we may have seven to eight men in full
gear in this thing crammed together sitting on each-others laps.
It works great as a wonderful resource to have in our tool belt because if there is
anything that we need to keep officers safe, citizens safe, everyone safe we can rely on
this.
Park police department is part of the Johnson County Parks and Rec.
district.
Our main goal is the park safety of all of the properties that are owned by the parks
district.
We have kind of a unique law enforcement that since we are mostly outside we have specialty
patrols like boat patrol and bike patrol.
We have all of the same crimes that are committed in a municipality.
Allot of people are surprised that we are certified law enforcement, they usually see
us as park rangers, someone just to seek information for or find out here something is at.
We will stop you for speeding just like anybody else or running the stop sign.
It gets kind of a different play on law enforcement that allot of people didn't know was there.
We are here representing the adults residential center as well as the juvenile detention center.
Basically our mission is to keep guys out of prison and change their lives and make
sure they work for the better.
We have guys that are there for various reasons, you know they all have different stuff going
on, allot of them have drug problems, they might not have a great education.
Our goal is to get them employed, get them treatment to help with their issues and get
them back up on their feet.
This robot here that we have that we are showing today is called a pack bot.
It can get in tight spaces, we like taking it in houses where we can maneuver through
narrow hallways, get into doors, we can use this with swat.
But we mainly use it for bomb calls.
It is a great way to view items like suspicious packages, things like that.
That way we don't have to put on the bomb suit to walk down on a suspicious item.
We can send this down first.
The good thing about this is it's much more maneuverable than the bigger robot, it is
faster, it has three speeds, it goes about six miles per hour at its top speed.
There are weapon systems we can attach to it as well but we can use this like if we
have got a hostage situation or a guy barricaded in his house we can send this in to look for
him.
Or even use it to go in and listen to see where he is at because it has got a mic on
it where we can hear.
This one will take us maybe five minutes to get it ready.
You just got to pull it out of the box, throw some batteries in it, turn it on and go.
I can carry it, put it anywhere I want to put it.
I like it because once you get used to this controller it is a play station.
The whole object behind it is to keep us from having to go down on a suspicious package
or on a device or anything like that we send these down first.
If we can do everything with this we will do everything with this.
I have been with the police department almost 25 years.
I am currently a detective in the personnel training division, do all of the hiring and
the background investigations recruiting.
One of probably the most important things that we really look for is just how do people
hold them self.
How do they carry them self, do they sound intelligent when they speak.
Those things are important because we deal allot with the public on a daily basis and
you have to be able to carry yourself as a professional.
As a detective I averaged I think about five hundred cases a year assigned to me before
I came into the job I was doing now.
So I was working crimes.
I have been really fortunate, I have gotten to do allot of cool things, there is allot
of people that want to work just the street.
I was one of those guys who wanted to do something different and I am really fortunate that I
was able to do those different kind of things.
It is a great department, they have taken care of me they have raised my family.
I am very proud of it and I would do it all over again, it is the greatest job in the
world.
I am officer Derrick Bruns and I am the instructor at north land career center in Platte city
Missouri for the law enforcement CSI class.
We learn how to be police officers hopefully in our future years and or CSI's, attorney's
anything that is under the umbrella of law enforcement.
We work marked crime scenes, accident reports, traffic accidents, and car stops.
We do mock trials.
We do moot courts, real CSI's and police officers come in from the field and they are the ones
that judge the students on their performances.
We also compete in the skills USA, we are good enough that we have won the last five
years in a row first place and competed on the national level and just this last year
we took second place in the nation.
Why choose a career in criminal justice?
I can't think of a better line of work that has more security than what we have.
There is always going to be bad guys out there.
I love my job, I mean it is just full of adrenaline, %99 down time, that one percent that is just
that adrenaline rush.
There is no typical day in law enforcement at all.
Every day is never the same it is always different so it is great.
Law enforcement is never a routine, there is always something different about it.
That is what makes it exciting, that is what I like about it, I don't sit behind a desk,
I am out and I am about and I am constantly meeting people and making connections.
It is just, it is just a great job, I really like helping people, I help solve crimes,
I help victims with crimes by identifying perpetrators.
I enjoy it is, it is a blast.
What will you see at criminal justice day?
On the campus of Johnson County Community College, from 9 am to noon.