So What does Law Enforcement have to do with babies?

This story is for those of you who think that all police officers do is right tickets. It was another short story that I located on the Law Officer facebook page. You can find the full but still short story on this newspapers website called the Chicago Tribune, just click here!

So have you ever been listing to a police scanner and hear a call for service reference a female who is having a baby in the back seat of a car? Well if not just imagine being the officer who was just dispatched to that call. This  happened to a deputy in Calumet County, Wisconsin. The report says that around 5:30 am the mother woke to labor pains and tried to get to the hospital but pulled over and called 911. The deputy responded and helped delivered the baby boy. You would think that this would be a once in a career type call but the officer who responded said that it was his third call of the same type in his entire 30 years on the force.

So what do you think? I think that this officer responded to a situation that people take for granted everyday. Even though this was a birth, he did not know if there were any complications with the birth that may have called for emergency procedure or may have caused the death of the mother or child. While doing so on the side of a road where someone could have side swiped him he not only responded to an emergency situation but he put his life on the line. We take officer of the law for granted all the time, and a lot of people think that all they do is write tickets, but they respond to emergency situations all the time not knowing all of what is going on.

So why did I respond like this? Like it said in my last post. I work at the local Sheriff's Department. I dispatch for all emergency agencies in our county and as a result have one on one contact with the officer, medical and fire personnel in the county. I know what they are responding to and sometimes we do not get all the information that they need. Law enforcement is not just keeping the peace between people fighting, it is also responding to that life or death situation and having to make important decisions with little time and limited information. I just think that we need to thank our officers, medical and fire personnel when we have the chance.

As always all thoughts in this blog our mine, and this blog is for my English Course.
If you want to read the short story about the officer delivering the baby click here