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- We're really happy to be here today
at the Davie police station to spend the day with you,
Officer Cavalie.
- I'm very excited to spend the day
with you guys as well.
- Why did you become a police officer?
- So I became a police officer
because I wanted to take bad guys off the street and to jail
and I wanted to protect kids like you.
- How did you become a police officer?
- Well I stayed in school.
I got good grades.
I went to college, and I worked very hard,
stayed out of trouble, and then went to the police academy,
went through a lot of training,
and now I'm here as a police officer.
- How long have you been a police officer?
- A little bit over four years now.
- Why do you like being a police officer?
- I love being a police officer.
It's something different every single day,
and I have a lot of fun when I come to work.
- That's terrific, well let's start our day.
Where do we begin?
- So the first thing we're gonna do is roll call
which is basically where each officer will be assigned
a different area of the city,
and they'll go over any announcements,
any crime trends that are going on.
- Terrific!
Are you ready to get started?
Let's do it. (funky upbeat music)
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- Afternoon gentlemen and ladies.
All right, Lieutenant Leon will have the city.
Sergeant Frampton will have the east side.
Robello will--
- [Penny] During roll call, the sergeant assigns
patrol zones to officers.
The officers are responsible for those patrol zones
on their shift.
The zones are put in numerical order.
- 16, 17.
21 and 22 is Murray, 43 Suarez.
We have CSA McCampbell out there.
Officer Bernakis is in till six,
and Cann and Ricker will be in later.
Officer Cavalie, we got a special assignment for you today.
You'll be spending the day with the Kidvision kids.
Be careful out there, have a safe night.
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- Wow, we're really impressed to see a police car.
So please tell us all about it.
- Absolutely Ms. Penny.
So this is a 2019 Ford police utility.
It's big, so it gives me space to be comfortable.
This is my office.
- About how many hours a day do you spend in your car?
- Our shifts are 10 hours long, and I'd say a good amount,
nine hours of them, are inside the car.
- When do you turn on your lights and your siren?
- So any time there's an emergency
where somebody's in trouble or there's a bad guy
doing bad things, I can turn on my lights and my sirens,
and I can go through a red light
or a stop sign to catch them,
but I gotta be careful and make sure
nobody's crossing the road.
- If we're in another car and we see you with lights on,
what should we do?
- You should always slow down and try to merge
over to your right side if you can.
- To the right side. - Yes.
- Okay, that's wonderful.
Can you show us what's inside your car?
- Absolutely.
So in here is my prisoner compartment.
It's completely blocked off.
The trunk here is where I keep all of my extra equipment.
I have all my SWAT gear.
I'm a diver, so if anything happens that's in the water,
let's say a car crashes into a canal or something,
I can respond to that, put on my dive gear,
and jump in the water if I need to.
My laptop is everything I need to do my work.
All the reports I have to write.
If I have to give somebody a speeding ticket,
I can do that on here as well.
We carry our radios on us personally, and that allows me to
if I have to go inside somebody's house
or if I'm running after a bad guy,
I'm not separated from my radio at any time.
I can always have it on me on my person.
- Wonderful.
Would you like to look inside the car?
I would, too. (funky upbeat music)
- Pull over, this is a pull over.
You need a speeding ticket.
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- Officer Cavalie, we'd really like to know
what you're wearing to protect yourself
while you're protecting us.
- Absolutely, so the first thing I'm wearing
that you see is this vest.
It's a bullet-resistant vest.
It allows us to attach different pieces of equipment
to the vest, so you can see my radio here.
It's been attached to the vest.
I have a pouch here where I have gloves and what not.
Utility pouch here, just holds my wallet, my cell phone.
On my belt, I have my firearm.
You guys know never touch a gun, right?
Always go find an adult, and then point it out, okay?
On the back side, you can see I have handcuffs.
- How heavy is that?
- The vest I'd say, anywhere from about 15 pounds.
It's hot, and it's like being hugged all day long,
but it's very important.
- I'd like to talk a little bit about your badge.
- Sure, this is my badge.
It symbolizes that I'm a sworn police officer,
but I have a surprise for you guys today,
so in my pouch, I actually have junior badges for you guys,
so I got one for you, I've got one for you.
- Thank you.
- I've got one for you, and I've got one for you.
- Well thank you very much for showing us what you wear
and how you protect yourself while you're protecting us.
- Absolutely, do you guys like dogs?
- [All] Yes!
- Let's go meet the K9 unit.
- Woo, yay, let's go!
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- All right Ms. Penny and Kidvision kids,
I have someone very special to introduce you to.
This is K9 Sergeant Chad Bishop.
- So you take care of the dogs?
- Yes ma'am, I've been in the K9 unit for the last 18 years.
I'm the sergeant of the unit.
I'm also the trainer, the K9 trainer of the unit.
In Davie, we have five working patrol dogs,
and we have one therapy dog.
- How do you train the dogs?
- It takes a lot of time and effort to train the dogs,
and what we do is when we get the dogs,
they're usually anywhere from about a year old
to a year and a half old.
Once an officer is selected to go and work with the dog,
they go to school with the dog
for approximately five months.
After that school, they go and they take a test
to prove that they're ready to work the road.
Throughout the dog's working life,
he's continually training.
- Where do the dogs live?
- They live with us.
They become very much part of our family.
He's with me 24 hours a day.
Everywhere I go, he goes.
- What kinda jobs do your dogs do?
- In police work, the dogs can have
many, many different jobs.
All of our dogs are what we call pool-certified.
Our primary job is our patrol function
where we go out locating suspects,
and when I say suspects,
it's not necessarily only bad guys.
We can utilize the dog to go out and find bad guys,
but we can also, and we routinely use the dog,
to find missing children,
elderly patients that have wandered away and become lost,
and we implement the dogs to go out and use them
as a locating tool to find any type of suspect like that.
Then they'll have a secondary job.
Two of our dogs are explosive detection,
and then two of the dogs are cross-trained in narcotics,
which narcotics is just a fancy word for drugs.
- Are you allowed to pet the dogs?
- Before you ever approach a police dog,
talk to the officer and see what the officer's opinion is.
- How do patrol police officers work with the K9 unit?
- So in patrol, we're out patrolling, looking for bad guys.
If there's ever a time where a bad guy
will run away from us and hide,
we'll call for the K9 unit.
- We depend on the road patrol officer
to set up perimeters and contain the bad guys
so that we can come out, utilize the dogs,
search through the perimeter, and locate where they're at,
so we work hand-in-hand with road patrol all the time.
- So it sounds like dogs are very important
to the Davie police station.
- Extremely, extremely.
- Wonderful, we'd love to meet one.
- [Chad] The foundation of our training
is our obedience work.
When he starts, you'll see that K9 Red
is tethered to Officer Berdakis,
and that's how we would start in K9 school
where the dog is on-leash next to the handler.
Once we progress to a point where the dog has learned
to walk right next to the handler,
and you'll see his focus.
You'll see him looking up at Officer Berdakis.
You'll see him working on-lead.
In school, once we reach a point where we know the dog
and we see the dog is staying right with the handler,
then we would move to what we call off-lead obedience,
and you'll see an example of that.
Officer Berdakis will disconnect K9 Red from the tether,
from the lead, and then he'll do some obedience
where he's walking around with him.
You'll see the dog is staying right beside Officer Berdakis.
He's looking up at him, he's focused on him,
looking for his next command.
Part of what we're required is that
we have to have dogs that are social.
Where the dogs are used routinely to search
for missing and endangered persons,
we can't have a dog that just goes out
and is going to attack anybody randomly.
As a demonstration and to get the dogs neutral to people,
when Officer Berdakis will stop,
he's working the off-lead obedience,
he'll stop and he'll put the dog in a down stay.
Once he's in that down stay,
you'll see I'll walk out there, and I'll walk around him,
and you'll see the dog just lays there.
He's waiting for Officer Berdakis' command.
He's not showing any undue aggression.
He's not going to apprehend anybody.
He's just very focused on Officer Berdakis
and paying attention to his every command.
To show you how the dogs utilize their nose,
we're gonna bring in several backpacks.
We'll lay the backpacks out.
I'll have K9 Anthony start at one end
and search the backpacks one by one.
You'll see his change.
His change, his alert, is to stop and stare,
and when he stares at that backpack,
you see him locked out, he's staring.
In his mind, what he's been trained is that
that his reward is gonna appear out of nowhere,
so you'll see him very focused on that backpack
waiting for his reward to come.
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- Ms. Penny and Kidvision kids,
I have another very special guest to introduce you to.
This is Detective Lisa Choquette.
- Hi guys. - Hi.
- How are you today? - Good.
- I am a detective, and I work in the special victims unit,
and I work with children.
Well I also brought along Detective Rocky.
Rocky comes out with me to assist children like this
to feel more comfortable and relaxed
when we're talking to them
during our investigation with them.
- And does Rocky live with you?
- [Lisa] He does.
He's five years old, and he lives with me
and comes to work every day.
- How is your job different than a police officer's job?
- The police officer responds to the calls for service.
Once they find that there's a need for a detective
to respond to the scene,
we respond out to the scene.
- So you do investigation. - Yes.
- And at the end of your investigations,
what are you hoping to achieve?
- My goal in these cases is
to obviously prosecute the bad guys.
With Rocky's help, it has helped tremendously in my cases,
and I've found that the kids are more open to talk to me
and disclose what happened than not having him around.
He's relaxed, he's calm.
He would never be aggressive with anybody
which means he would never bite anybody,
he would never hurt anybody.
The most he'd probably do like he's doing today
is probably lick you or drool all over the place.
(kids laughing)
So that's pretty much it.
He's here for you to pet him and to love on him.
- That's perfect, thank you so much for talking to us
and introducing us to Rocky.
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- Thank you Officer Cavalie for a wonderful day
with a police officer.
- It was a pleasure having you guys around.
Hold on guys, I'm getting a call.
I gotta go.
- [All] Bye, thank you, bye! (funky upbeat music)