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the Fennel Forum. We have our Chief of Police and also we have a
Captain Elkins here with you. How are we doing there, Guys doing great
this morning, thumb Thanks for having us, the Chief, it's good to
have you back. And Dan, I guess this might be the first time
we've had yet. Yeah, first time on the radio in this room.
All right, well, Chief, tell us a little bit about this program
coming up on the twenty on the twenty fifth, twenty fifth the Moto Community
Center or the Center, and I guess that's what it's filled now. Yeah,
it kind of changed it up on us. It's a Fennel form.
We we hosted one last year and it was it was a hit in the
sense that we had a lot of people show up for it and has a
really good panel and had a lot of participation from the audience. So obviously
it's a high topic continuing continuing today. It's a hot topic and we just
want to keep addressing that issue until it's no longer an issue, which maybe
never, but we want to try to stay in front of it and keep
communicating about it. Gentlemen, one of the things I'm picking up on from
what I hear on the street and what I hear from people who are into
helping fields is that the people who are dealing with this and the folks who
are taking this just think it's another way to get high, and they're really
not seeing any danger, despite the fact that they wind up going to funerals
with their friends who overdosed on this. You know, it's it's kind of
a phenomenon. You know, it's as deadly as it is, there's still
those that just have to try it. And seems like if somebody has produced
a drug that is more potent than those guys want to try that and they
just kind of put the risk behind them. And you know, Narkian is
something that that was created to counter that counter a lot of opioids, and
uh, you'd be amazed how many people we've used narcn on in the last
couple of years, just bringing them back multiple times. It's it's it's amazing
and scary to me that people just for lack of better words, they die
and then they come back I mean from the from the uh several times.
This is something that you guys see on the street all the time. I
mean, oh yeah, I mean I many calls for service do you get
for a person down? They're down because of panel? Yeah, I mean
we see it weekly. I mean I can literally think of house as U
plus or minus a few blocks from just where we sit right now, that
that we've been to multiple times. And uh, I've literally, uh,
you know, walked up to individuals that are lifeless, I mean they're pell
you know, and then within a matter of just seconds after a ministering,
this nark in you know, there skin you know, brings back a now
actual flesh tone, and they're coming to and and uh, you know,
able to make heads of in tales of of their situation. So the nark
cannon itself is pretty amazing on what it's able to do for us, but
also maybe ushers in just kind of a new way of of of life,
you know, a little kind of false security. I was gonna say,
everybody thinks they got a safety net if they got that on him exactly.
And so I mean it's a good thing that that we have that as another
way to help come about it and hopefully bring these people out you know,
their clutches, you know of addiction. But and these are things we're going
to talk about, you know, August twenty five, six pm there at
the community center, or the center's chief pointed out. So yeah, it's
just really an A to Z approach on how first responders, not just law
enforcement, but also ems personnel, fire personnel, the er and other uh
just again first responders you know meet you know that this finnel day to day.
Wow, this is amazing now, Chief Eichelberry. The thing I understand
is this stuff is really small and it doesn't take a whole lot to upset
your life balance. Back, I understand one of our officers was simply processing
evidence and he had to be hospitalized over this. Yes, we had we
had officer Zach Moorey's no longer with us, he works for a wall speeding
now, but great young man he was. They had done a traffic stop
and they'd pull some drugs out of the cars vehicle, taking the suspect to
the county jail and he was packaging up evidence and processing evidence. We have
video of that and it's been posted before, but it just overcomes him while
he's in the process of packing evidence, and Uh, if it hadn't been
in the squadroom and had been other officers around him, I don't know what
would have happened with him that day. But they were able to to render
aid to him quickly, give him nark in, and then once ems arrived,
they began a narc and drip on him and they rushed him to the
hospital and he continued on narc and rip for for quite a while before it
was out of the system. So very scary time at the time, and
very eye opening for all the officers that were present or have seen it since
it. It has changed the way we do business when it comes to drugs.
We were a lot more cautious and we have some more protective measures employees
so that this doesn't happen again. Where did it dick into this thing come
from? Is it something we don't even make it here in any ways,
do we? Well, that's a that's a that's a good quote. We
do. So there's several different forms of that I mean you have actually medical
grade fitting all that you know, used for high kind of pain manage him
management. So I would probably ultimately say that's kind of where it's introduction was.
But I mean, you see fitting all used in the automotive industry to
like softened leathers for like leather rapps, steering and things that. You know,
it's a very very very concentrated forms of this that you know is never
intended for human consumption. And you know, so that's coming out to the
streets and being kind of processed down to help you know, take you know,
the drugs to kind of the next level. You know, it's kind
of I would I would kind of say it's not something that people like just
step into just right away, but it just kind of, you know,
they start maybe, you know, let's use the term like on the gateway
drugs one sort at one level, and then they just kind of keep using,
keep using kind of looking for something different, looking for something different,
and then over the days to the weeks to the years, you kind of
end up in a dark hole someplace. Oh boy, this is good.
I undtend that some are mixing some kind of horse tranquilizer with this business that
even makes it more dangerous. Yeah, we definitely don't want to educate the
public and thinks, you know, I'm just hearing things from people. You
have to do it every day. Yeah, but there's definitely a coction out
there for you know, you know, different folks, different strokes. You
know. Well, you know, I had an agent tell me one time
that the you know, it's the euphoria that comes from say gateway drugs,
such as some people call marijuana gateway drug. I would tend to agree with
that. Uh. Once they have that initial high, then they're searching for
that high again, and sometimes the brain just didn't come all the way down,
and so reaching that high takes a stronger drug. And so they go
first try to find something that gives them that initial high that they received early
on, and they just keep reaching, keep reaching for something that'll get them
to where they they have the euphoria and uh, and they never really really
find it. They find it, find a drug that gives them something better,
but far as the high, but as as the stronger you get,
the worse it is on the brain and the body. And you see that
through time, left photos of different people that over the years and over the
months. Actually, I mean, I've seen people deteriorate pretty quickly. It's
really sad to watch. We're going to have more in just a moment.
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and welcome back to our community Connection program we're talking with Bartlesville Leaf Chief Kevin
Eichelberry and also Captain day Neil Elkins here and we've got the big entinyl form
coming up here. Yes, sir, August twenty five at six pm far
as we Community Center. No, I understand you're gonna take questions from the
audience, but you'd brother and they will, but it'd be a lot of
usier folks will get their questions and ahead of time, right Captain, Yes,
yeah, So essentially we're trying to, you know, provide structure to
this form so it's not just complete chaos. We actually created an email address
as a general email address that we're going to continue for use for any questions.
Any citizen has a art and police and it's just a Q and a
at city or excuse me, it's BPD Q and a at city at Bardsville
dot org. And any citizen can submit any question right now. We're on
this centinel form. But at any point, whatever it is a marking dog,
a trash can left out on the road too long, or fireworks complaint,
you can you can submit questions to that and we'll try to fill those.
Okay, So we've gone a brand new thing. It's been around a
little bit, so we can use that right. Well that the email address
is new, okay, but we're we're also looking to use it for other
things. Very good, very good. I like that. And of course
when we get the questions and it's gonna be easier to get them out to
the different professionals. And I remember we hadn't maybe close to a dozen people
on the DIOSA last time. Yes, yep, we're well on the dah
Will Drake, yep, Will Drake, he'll be there. We'll have members
from obian A d A. I believe, we have a local agency CTI
that does a lot of kind of drug analysis and services for a lot of
local people here. They'll be on the panel as well. So you know,
we'll have the Barslo Police Department's own community impact team. It's kind of
two individuals that we kind of task primarily we're not with narcotics, but you
know they work on other kind of community issues as well. So again there
will be a whole gamut of just multi multidisciplinary. Well, I have the
Barslow Ambulance on there. Chris Wells, I believe so he in my opening
stories last time. Yeah, so again it's just an a e Z approach
on how all first responders, you know, is dealing within all on a
day to day basis in Chafe. I understand that sometimes these drug interrodictions kind
of get nipped in the bud with the simple traffic stop and people wonder,
so why would you pull somebody over for something like that, Well, if
you blew a stop, saying, first of all, you violated the law.
If you speeded, you violated the law. If you're driving it safely,
you violated the law. But in addition, sometimes that opens the door
to some pretty dangerous stuff. Oh absolutely. You know. One of the
biggest tools we have is patrol division. You know, the patrol divisions.
The police deportment is the front line of the police deportment, and they're tasked
with a lot of different wars and part of those assignments or traffic enforcement.
And during that traffic enforcement is a lot of times they will encounter burglars,
they will encounter drug runners, drug dealers, multiple wanted felons. So it's
traffic. Traffic drives a lot of what we do and it protects the community
even in more ways than just slowing people down and slowing down accidents. It
helps us to reach out and find those people that are less desirable on the
street that affect our children and our families daily, and so we want to
make sure that we're doing our best job possible on the street doing enforcing those
traffic laws, and those do lead to other things, so very good.
Another thing that our police department really getting a really great name for it the
fact that our officers are approachable and there's been so much I guess it's a
good will that's been done with getting together and letting people know that, you
know, you're not up against some kind of you know, secret society.
These are the people here to help you. And you're now have the resource
officers and all the schools. This is a great thing. Oh yes,
sir Tom. We just got school started last week and very happy along with
the bars of public school system to be able to introduce those SROs to the
school population. And we've got one in every school right now and one at
Try County Tech. We've got a second one on the way for the high
school soon as we can get them hired and put in place. Takes a
little while to get a food saucer hired, so well, I understand,
Tray County Tech is going to help you out with that here for too long
ago. I remember the last time we spoke, they were working on that
with you. Well, that's another thing we're excited about. We're in the
process right now moving into the old Strategy Center out there is our east Side
substation, and we've got great plans for that. We'll be hosting what's called
a EPOCH or a Basic Peace Officers School. That's a state sponsored police academy.
And so we'll be able to send people we are recruiting to that academy
uh and keep them in town rather than have to send them to AID Oklahoma
or Oklahoma to be trained into police academy. So and we can that will
be uh taking on other people from this region. So it gives us a
bigger pool to choose from. So hopefully we'll have some great officers come through
that program that we can put to work. Well, Captain, you guys
had a little bit of fun earlier this uh this spring with the big party
on the block. It's now there's something that almost filled the block. Now
it fills the whole southern part of downtown. Yeah, yeah, that's not
working out, But it's definitely growing. Uh you know, we're having a
lot of fun with it. We have multiple different things to do there from
library and and out books, the face paintings, jump houses, I will
you know which I'm fond of is is the barbecue competition. So you know,
we uh you know, just included our second year with that had total
ten ten teams last year. Uh, you know, looking to make it
grow and and and go from there. So one of the things that stands
out is, yeah, people are having fun, but kids are approaching the
officers not with fear, but with hey, how we do this? You
know where's that? You know? We have a lot of equipment out of
the interaction. Yeah, a lot of equipment and different things for them to
uh you know, call all over our trucks and we usually have K nine
demonstrations. We had break out our drones and flyer drones around and have a
various uh special operations tactics gear for them to put on and and uh uh
you know a lot of kids, well really a lot of people are kind
of uh you know, how to say it, more fascinating law enforcement.
So it's it's a great, a great opportunity to you know, really get
into the inners of what we do and and try some things out cheaper.
We're gonna have another one of those citizens uh Police Police Academies. Yes,
sir, we'll be back. We'll be starting to hopefully back up in March
next year. We usually do one of those a year. We're excited about
those, UH police just have. If you want, if you have any
interest in law enforcement, whatever whatsoever, try to understand the workings of our
police department. You can apply online at the Proposal Police Department web page for
that. It's a great time. It's once a week for twelve weeks and
it's about a three hour night for you and each week has a different topic
and we do demonstrations as well as if you want a dog bit, you
can get dog bit. If you want tast you can get tasted. I
mean and believe it or not. There as volunteers. I want to do
that. So that's a good time and it really gets them to understand what
we do a little bit better. And that's what we want. Well,
breaks down the walls and it builds a bridge, absolutely, and that's that's
what we're really about. You know. We uh we uh started the job
I'll speak for myself. We started this job more than to help people and
to know people, and to treat people good and make sure they're safe in
their home and there's no fear for them living in our city. And you
know, it's great to get out and be part of the community and to
really share the love that we have for our citizens by interacting with them.
And sometimes it's they always see us on their bad days, but we want
to make sure that when they see us on the bad days, they know
we're behind them and trying to do the best we can to make them have
a safe life. Very good, gentlemen. I want to thank you for
being with us today and thank you for protecting the citizens of our community too.
Thank you Tom. All right, once again, the fentinal form is
coming up on the twenty fifth. Yes, that's great. All right,
we'll see you there at six o'clock. Folks, bring your questions and also
email them. Will give you the address a little bit later on. You've
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