24th July 2010
Scale 0800 x 1700
Introduction
Got to the station for about 0720 and went to get changed in the station, a bit unusuall as our changing rooms used to be the garage for all the cars :S. After getting changed and gipping with nerves and having to have my top button done up on the shirt i headed up to the NPT office to meet my SSO.
About 10 mins and my SSO arrived and introduced us to our teams and some of the people that we would be working with (not what i expected) we then headed downstairs to learn how to get our pool radio and how to book ourselfes onto it. after doing this myself 4 other new specials and 2 SSO’s went on patrol in the van.
On Patrol
We took a patrol of the areas so that we knew hotspots and also the boundaries to our division mine being the biggest patch i didnt get to explore mine as i would do this on next patrol when i was with my NPT. Once our tour of the division had finished we headed to a traffic hot spot to spend the morning looking for people that were ignoring mandatory street signs, fairly slow morning but what to expect on the first shift!
At 15:00 the van got taken off of us as some reg’s needed it in killingbeck so we got some paperwork done and sent off the tickets that we had issued and filled in our timesheets.
15:30 Off Duty