My wife is now done!
As of 1800 Pacific Time my wife is officially done. After 31 years of law enforcement (6 with the county, 25 with the city) today is her last day of work. She 'officially' retires on the 31st but she had enough leave time built up that she's taking the rest of the month off.
She's been a patrol officer, a K-9 officer, a detective, worked undercover with the regional drug task force, was a door kicker on the SWAT team, then (when she out shot all the guys!) a sniper for the SWAT team. She eventually formed the regional Crisis Negotiating Team and headed it up for the last 8 years or so.
She'll be retiring as the Senior Patrol Sergeant and the #3 person in the department, behind the Chief and the Lt.
I cannot begin to tell you all what a relief it is to have her off the street! When she'd work nights (6p to 6A) it was really nerve wracking. Every time I'd hear a siren I'd wonder if that was the night I'd be getting "the call". Days for some reason didn't seem as bad. I never had a scanner in the house. I didn't want to know what was going on because I know that if she had gotten into a bad situation I would have shown up armed to the teeth and probably wound up in jail myself.
At the end of the month we'll pack up the U-Haul 'em truck and move the rest of our stuff up here to Montana and hopefully live out long and happy lives minding our own damn business.
Thank you, Lord, for getting her through relatively unscathed.
-
Congratulations!
0 -
Congrats…so happy it worked out for the both of you.
0 -
Congrats
0 -
I was at it for 30+ years myself. It will take her a while to shed the hypervigilence. She'll look and point and say, "Look at that dumb ass", a lot. Head stays on a swivel but in time she'll relax some. Montana sounds like a great place to make it happen.
9 -
Congrats to you folks, enjoy Montana!
0 -
Took me 5 years to stop looking at license plate tags to see if they were expired. At the doctors office they can't explain the blood pressure drop when nobody is in the room. I could but they would not understand.
It took only 4 years for the death threats to stop.
3 -
Congratulations !! It will take a while to relax but Montana will help.
0 -
Congratulations, well deserved retirement to you both!
0 -
Congrats! I just knew there had to be some good news out there somewhere and you proved me right. I hope retirement exceeds your expectations by a wide margin. Bob
3 -
Congrats to you both.
0 -
Congratulations to her and you as well. Being on the support team is grueling.
3 -
susie: 31151709232795/comments/31151704736155
Congratulations to her and you as well. Being on the support team is grueling.
A big Amen to that, Susie. Thank God she always had great team mates that always had her back, just like she had theirs.
Do you folks have any idea how hard it is to not go beat some idiot senseless that the night before resisted arrest and hurt your wife in the process?
The lieutenant for the department ran some quick stats and calculated that in her 25 years with the city she was the primary responding officer on over 30,000 calls and acted as cover officer on close to 100,000. Granted, a lot of those were 'stolen bike' calls, but some of them were also very hairy. Rapists, murderers, bank robbers, etc. She's waded into bar fights and come out on top more than once!
Whew! Glad that's over and we're gonna be 500 miles away from it all so she doesn't have to worry about running into one of her 'clients'!
3 -
"Thank you, Lord, for getting her through relatively unscathed"
Truer words were never spoken. Enjoy the Big Sky Country! Make a point of visiting Yellowstone now and again, and post photos. Y'hear?
0 -
Congrats to her and you both on a well deserved retirement!
0 -
Congratulations!! She was the "door kicker"?!? I'm just guessing but I would say she kept you in line!!!! 😁
0 -
Congratulations!
I bet it feels good not to have to deal with anymore dirtbags.
3 -
We appreciate her service and God bless.... especially in todays times when woke DEMOCRAT apparatchiks have turned their back on LEOs altogether.
3 -
Nanuq907: 31151709232795/comments/31151728030491
"Thank you, Lord, for getting her through relatively unscathed"
Truer words were never spoken. Enjoy the Big Sky Country! Make a point of visiting Yellowstone now and again, and post photos. Y'hear?
We're a ways from Yellowstone but Glacier will be a quick day trip for us.
3 -
now her only job will be keeping you in line 24-7, are you ready for that??????
3 -
Congrats, bound to be a great stress relief to both.
Hope meet you two later in the summer or in October at a rodeo.
Mule
0 -
Many Thanks to her for her service!
0 -
It'll take her awhile to re-adjust and come to the realization that it's finally all behind her. She'll miss the comraderie and teamwork that goes into every hour of every day, but she'll eventually adjust. She's paid her dues many times over. There really is a life after...been there, as have many on this forum. My congratulations to you both. Enjoy a well earned rest.
0 -
I am SO happy for you both.....it sounds like she has more than deserved a huge thank you for her service. I’m betting that it will be a long time before they can adjust to not having her. Congratulations!
0 -
Enjoy the years ahead.
0 -
Nice! I'm very excited for her... and you two actually.
0 -
Congratulations! Now, enjoy the rest of your lives together!
0 -
Congrats and thanks for her service.
0 -
Yay! So happy for you both. Praying the rest of the move and your next stage of life goes smoothly. I would think such a big change of scenery will help. Congrats!
0 -
congrats that's a ton of extra worry gone . thank her for her long service and commitment
we wish you both a long long happy retirement
0
Please sign in to leave a comment.
Comments
34 comments