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Good pointing, good money, good
money, and welcome, Welcome, Welcome,

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and it's time now for our community
connection right here on K one,

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the one you trust, and our
broadcast today is being brought to you by

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Tall Grass Votors at Arnold Moore Kneecamp
Funeral Home. We're gonna be talking about

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the Fennel Forum. We have our
Chief of Police and also we have a

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Captain Elkins here with you. How
are we doing there, Guys doing great

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this morning, thumb Thanks for having
us, the Chief, it's good to

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have you back. And Dan,
I guess this might be the first time

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we've had yet. Yeah, first
time on the radio in this room.

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All right, well, Chief,
tell us a little bit about this program

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coming up on the twenty on the
twenty fifth, twenty fifth the Moto Community

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Center or the Center, and I
guess that's what it's filled now. Yeah,

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it kind of changed it up on
us. It's a Fennel form.

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We we hosted one last year and
it was it was a hit in the

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sense that we had a lot of
people show up for it and has a

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really good panel and had a lot
of participation from the audience. So obviously

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it's a high topic continuing continuing today. It's a hot topic and we just

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want to keep addressing that issue until
it's no longer an issue, which maybe

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never, but we want to try
to stay in front of it and keep

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communicating about it. Gentlemen, one
of the things I'm picking up on from

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what I hear on the street and
what I hear from people who are into

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helping fields is that the people who
are dealing with this and the folks who

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are taking this just think it's another
way to get high, and they're really

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not seeing any danger, despite the
fact that they wind up going to funerals

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with their friends who overdosed on this. You know, it's it's kind of

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a phenomenon. You know, it's
as deadly as it is, there's still

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those that just have to try it. And seems like if somebody has produced

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a drug that is more potent than
those guys want to try that and they

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just kind of put the risk behind
them. And you know, Narkian is

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something that that was created to counter
that counter a lot of opioids, and

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uh, you'd be amazed how many
people we've used narcn on in the last

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couple of years, just bringing them
back multiple times. It's it's it's amazing

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and scary to me that people just
for lack of better words, they die

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and then they come back I mean
from the from the uh several times.

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This is something that you guys see
on the street all the time. I

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mean, oh yeah, I mean
I many calls for service do you get

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for a person down? They're down
because of panel? Yeah, I mean

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we see it weekly. I mean
I can literally think of house as U

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plus or minus a few blocks from
just where we sit right now, that

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that we've been to multiple times.
And uh, I've literally, uh,

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you know, walked up to individuals
that are lifeless, I mean they're pell

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you know, and then within a
matter of just seconds after a ministering,

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this nark in you know, there
skin you know, brings back a now

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actual flesh tone, and they're coming
to and and uh, you know,

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able to make heads of in tales
of of their situation. So the nark

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cannon itself is pretty amazing on what
it's able to do for us, but

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also maybe ushers in just kind of
a new way of of of life,

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you know, a little kind of
false security. I was gonna say,

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everybody thinks they got a safety net
if they got that on him exactly.

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And so I mean it's a good
thing that that we have that as another

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way to help come about it and
hopefully bring these people out you know,

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their clutches, you know of addiction. But and these are things we're going

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to talk about, you know,
August twenty five, six pm there at

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the community center, or the center's
chief pointed out. So yeah, it's

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just really an A to Z approach
on how first responders, not just law

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enforcement, but also ems personnel,
fire personnel, the er and other uh

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just again first responders you know meet
you know that this finnel day to day.

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Wow, this is amazing now,
Chief Eichelberry. The thing I understand

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is this stuff is really small and
it doesn't take a whole lot to upset

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your life balance. Back, I
understand one of our officers was simply processing

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evidence and he had to be hospitalized
over this. Yes, we had we

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had officer Zach Moorey's no longer with
us, he works for a wall speeding

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now, but great young man he
was. They had done a traffic stop

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and they'd pull some drugs out of
the cars vehicle, taking the suspect to

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the county jail and he was packaging
up evidence and processing evidence. We have

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video of that and it's been posted
before, but it just overcomes him while

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he's in the process of packing evidence, and Uh, if it hadn't been

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in the squadroom and had been other
officers around him, I don't know what

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would have happened with him that day. But they were able to to render

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aid to him quickly, give him
nark in, and then once ems arrived,

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they began a narc and drip on
him and they rushed him to the

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hospital and he continued on narc and
rip for for quite a while before it

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was out of the system. So
very scary time at the time, and

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very eye opening for all the officers
that were present or have seen it since

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it. It has changed the way
we do business when it comes to drugs.

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We were a lot more cautious and
we have some more protective measures employees

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so that this doesn't happen again.
Where did it dick into this thing come

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from? Is it something we don't
even make it here in any ways,

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do we? Well, that's a
that's a that's a good quote. We

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do. So there's several different forms
of that I mean you have actually medical

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grade fitting all that you know,
used for high kind of pain manage him

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management. So I would probably ultimately
say that's kind of where it's introduction was.

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But I mean, you see fitting
all used in the automotive industry to

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like softened leathers for like leather rapps, steering and things that. You know,

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it's a very very very concentrated forms
of this that you know is never

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intended for human consumption. And you
know, so that's coming out to the

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streets and being kind of processed down
to help you know, take you know,

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the drugs to kind of the next
level. You know, it's kind

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of I would I would kind of
say it's not something that people like just

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step into just right away, but
it just kind of, you know,

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they start maybe, you know,
let's use the term like on the gateway

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drugs one sort at one level,
and then they just kind of keep using,

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keep using kind of looking for something
different, looking for something different,

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and then over the days to the
weeks to the years, you kind of

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end up in a dark hole someplace. Oh boy, this is good.

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I undtend that some are mixing some
kind of horse tranquilizer with this business that

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even makes it more dangerous. Yeah, we definitely don't want to educate the

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public and thinks, you know,
I'm just hearing things from people. You

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have to do it every day.
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there for you know, you know, different folks, different strokes. You

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know. Well, you know,
I had an agent tell me one time

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that the you know, it's the
euphoria that comes from say gateway drugs,

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such as some people call marijuana gateway
drug. I would tend to agree with

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that. Uh. Once they have
that initial high, then they're searching for

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that high again, and sometimes the
brain just didn't come all the way down,

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and so reaching that high takes a
stronger drug. And so they go

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first try to find something that gives
them that initial high that they received early

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on, and they just keep reaching, keep reaching for something that'll get them

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to where they they have the euphoria
and uh, and they never really really

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find it. They find it,
find a drug that gives them something better,

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but far as the high, but
as as the stronger you get,

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the worse it is on the brain
and the body. And you see that

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through time, left photos of different
people that over the years and over the

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months. Actually, I mean,
I've seen people deteriorate pretty quickly. It's

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really sad to watch. We're going
to have more in just a moment.

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Books as we talk about the funeral
form coming up here in just a matter

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of days in the downtown Bartlesville the
centers. We speak with Chief Michaelberry and

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Captain Elkins from the Bartlesville Police Department. After these works on K one,

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pre needs are completely transferable in the
United States from funeral home to funeral home,

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and in Oklahoma that's a specially true
without any penalty at all. For

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instance, if you decide you're going
to retire and move to another state,

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and you find a funeral home that
you're comfortable with elsewhere, you can take

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that already set up pre need that
you have at funeral Home A and transfer

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to funeral Homebow and there's no problem
doing that. Ten Howel Arnold Moore and

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DeCamp funeral home. Sixty or seventy
years ago, Bob Farmer died. Joe

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business owner room Joe business owner hunal
sign that said close for the funeral of

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Bob Farmer back at three pm,
hung it on his door, closed his

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door. No one would steal that
sign. He would go to the funeral,

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as with many of Bob's friends.
Now, if you're a grand son,

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you have to have proof that Grandpa
died so you can get paid for

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that day of leave. Our sort
of a hundred times death is an inconvenience

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to twenty first century America. But
it's not at Arnold Moore and Ncamp funeral.

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It'll be all right. We'll walk
through list together. Arnid Moore and

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Ncamp Punor Hall seven ten Dewey,
Bartelsville Life. We will walk through this

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together. Is it time to start
thinking about a new carent? But the

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thought of dealing with the large dealerships
is just too intimidating, too confusing.

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There is an easier way ton Grass
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the confusing glaves a large dealerships play. Tall Grass Motors has continually been vot

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and enjoyed looking at over sixty used
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and welcome back to our community Connection
program we're talking with Bartlesville Leaf Chief Kevin

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Eichelberry and also Captain day Neil Elkins
here and we've got the big entinyl form

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coming up here. Yes, sir, August twenty five at six pm far

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as we Community Center. No,
I understand you're gonna take questions from the

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audience, but you'd brother and they
will, but it'd be a lot of

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usier folks will get their questions and
ahead of time, right Captain, Yes,

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yeah, So essentially we're trying to, you know, provide structure to

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this form so it's not just complete
chaos. We actually created an email address

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as a general email address that we're
going to continue for use for any questions.

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Any citizen has a art and police
and it's just a Q and a

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at city or excuse me, it's
BPD Q and a at city at Bardsville

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dot org. And any citizen can
submit any question right now. We're on

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this centinel form. But at any
point, whatever it is a marking dog,

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a trash can left out on the
road too long, or fireworks complaint,

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you can you can submit questions to
that and we'll try to fill those.

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Okay, So we've gone a brand
new thing. It's been around a

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little bit, so we can use
that right. Well that the email address

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is new, okay, but we're
we're also looking to use it for other

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things. Very good, very good. I like that. And of course

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when we get the questions and it's
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the different professionals. And I remember
we hadn't maybe close to a dozen people

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on the DIOSA last time. Yes, yep, we're well on the dah

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Will Drake, yep, Will Drake, he'll be there. We'll have members

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from obian A d A. I
believe, we have a local agency CTI

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that does a lot of kind of
drug analysis and services for a lot of

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local people here. They'll be on
the panel as well. So you know,

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we'll have the Barslo Police Department's own
community impact team. It's kind of

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two individuals that we kind of task
primarily we're not with narcotics, but you

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know they work on other kind of
community issues as well. So again there

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will be a whole gamut of just
multi multidisciplinary. Well, I have the

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Barslow Ambulance on there. Chris Wells, I believe so he in my opening

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stories last time. Yeah, so
again it's just an a e Z approach

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on how all first responders, you
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day to day basis in Chafe.
I understand that sometimes these drug interrodictions kind

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of get nipped in the bud with
the simple traffic stop and people wonder,

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so why would you pull somebody over
for something like that, Well, if

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you blew a stop, saying,
first of all, you violated the law.

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If you speeded, you violated the
law. If you're driving it safely,

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you violated the law. But in
addition, sometimes that opens the door

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to some pretty dangerous stuff. Oh
absolutely. You know. One of the

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biggest tools we have is patrol division. You know, the patrol divisions.

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The police deportment is the front line
of the police deportment, and they're tasked

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with a lot of different wars and
part of those assignments or traffic enforcement.

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And during that traffic enforcement is a
lot of times they will encounter burglars,

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they will encounter drug runners, drug
dealers, multiple wanted felons. So it's

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traffic. Traffic drives a lot of
what we do and it protects the community

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even in more ways than just slowing
people down and slowing down accidents. It

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helps us to reach out and find
those people that are less desirable on the

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street that affect our children and our
families daily, and so we want to

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make sure that we're doing our best
job possible on the street doing enforcing those

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traffic laws, and those do lead
to other things, so very good.

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Another thing that our police department really
getting a really great name for it the

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fact that our officers are approachable and
there's been so much I guess it's a

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good will that's been done with getting
together and letting people know that, you

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know, you're not up against some
kind of you know, secret society.

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These are the people here to help
you. And you're now have the resource

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officers and all the schools. This
is a great thing. Oh yes,

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sir Tom. We just got school
started last week and very happy along with

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the bars of public school system to
be able to introduce those SROs to the

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school population. And we've got one
in every school right now and one at

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Try County Tech. We've got a
second one on the way for the high

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school soon as we can get them
hired and put in place. Takes a

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little while to get a food saucer
hired, so well, I understand,

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Tray County Tech is going to help
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ago. I remember the last time
we spoke, they were working on that

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with you. Well, that's another
thing we're excited about. We're in the

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process right now moving into the old
Strategy Center out there is our east Side

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substation, and we've got great plans
for that. We'll be hosting what's called

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a EPOCH or a Basic Peace Officers
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And so we'll be able to send
people we are recruiting to that academy

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uh and keep them in town rather
than have to send them to AID Oklahoma

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or Oklahoma to be trained into police
academy. So and we can that will

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be uh taking on other people from
this region. So it gives us a

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bigger pool to choose from. So
hopefully we'll have some great officers come through

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that program that we can put to
work. Well, Captain, you guys

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had a little bit of fun earlier
this uh this spring with the big party

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on the block. It's now there's
something that almost filled the block. Now

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it fills the whole southern part of
downtown. Yeah, yeah, that's not

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working out, But it's definitely growing. Uh you know, we're having a

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lot of fun with it. We
have multiple different things to do there from

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library and and out books, the
face paintings, jump houses, I will

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you know which I'm fond of is
is the barbecue competition. So you know,

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we uh you know, just included
our second year with that had total

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ten ten teams last year. Uh, you know, looking to make it

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grow and and and go from there. So one of the things that stands

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out is, yeah, people are
having fun, but kids are approaching the

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officers not with fear, but with
hey, how we do this? You

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know where's that? You know?
We have a lot of equipment out of

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the interaction. Yeah, a lot
of equipment and different things for them to

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uh you know, call all over
our trucks and we usually have K nine

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demonstrations. We had break out our
drones and flyer drones around and have a

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various uh special operations tactics gear for
them to put on and and uh uh

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you know a lot of kids,
well really a lot of people are kind

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of uh you know, how to
say it, more fascinating law enforcement.

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So it's it's a great, a
great opportunity to you know, really get

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into the inners of what we do
and and try some things out cheaper.

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We're gonna have another one of those
citizens uh Police Police Academies. Yes,

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sir, we'll be back. We'll
be starting to hopefully back up in March

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next year. We usually do one
of those a year. We're excited about

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those, UH police just have.
If you want, if you have any

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interest in law enforcement, whatever whatsoever, try to understand the workings of our

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police department. You can apply online
at the Proposal Police Department web page for

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that. It's a great time.
It's once a week for twelve weeks and

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it's about a three hour night for
you and each week has a different topic

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and we do demonstrations as well as
if you want a dog bit, you

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can get dog bit. If you
want tast you can get tasted. I

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mean and believe it or not.
There as volunteers. I want to do

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that. So that's a good time
and it really gets them to understand what

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we do a little bit better.
And that's what we want. Well,

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breaks down the walls and it builds
a bridge, absolutely, and that's that's

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what we're really about. You know. We uh we uh started the job

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I'll speak for myself. We started
this job more than to help people and

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to know people, and to treat
people good and make sure they're safe in

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their home and there's no fear for
them living in our city. And you

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know, it's great to get out
and be part of the community and to

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really share the love that we have
for our citizens by interacting with them.

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And sometimes it's they always see us
on their bad days, but we want

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to make sure that when they see
us on the bad days, they know

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we're behind them and trying to do
the best we can to make them have

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a safe life. Very good,
gentlemen. I want to thank you for

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being with us today and thank you
for protecting the citizens of our community too.

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Thank you Tom. All right,
once again, the fentinal form is

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coming up on the twenty fifth.
Yes, that's great. All right,

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we'll see you there at six o'clock. Folks, bring your questions and also

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email them. Will give you the
address a little bit later on. You've

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been listening to our community connection right
here in game one, the one you trust