Indiana LEO
Indiana University Police Academy • August 1973
To find me, locate the
two women officers in the front row to your right. Over their shoulders
in the next row is a black officer. The officer directly over the top of
this officer’s cap with the black frame glasses is me.
This was the communications
center. The dispatcher’s name is Claire. She was working full time while
attending school to obtain her Master’s degree in Library Science. Notice
the big boom mic sticking out from the console. In the picture to the right,
the big brown box on the console (really just an ordinary office desk)
against the wall with all the papers clipped to it is the radio unit itself.
It was plugged into an electrical outlet under the desk so it was not a
rare event for some long-legged dispatcher to stretch his or her legs under
the desk and pull the plug on the entire communications system.
LEFT: Patrol lieutenant
(I do not recall his name) explaining the comm center to a group of new
civilian employees. When he was finished with his discourse, it was then
my turn to explain in more detail what the training would be like for those
selected to assist with dispatcher in the comm center. It was also my job
to train those civilian employees in the actual job and what was expected
of them when assigned to the center.
RIGHT: My credentials,
i.e., my ID card, my badge, my ID case, handcuffs, and off duty weapon
(a Ruger .357 2¾inch barrel snub nosed revolver loaded with hollow
point ammunition)
The state police were
given take home cars. We were not. The picture to your left is a motor
vehicle accident north of Evansville on U.S. 41. It was a couple hours
away from Bloomington but close to where I was from originally. I used
to go to Evansville on my days off and ride with the city police there
and the troopers who worked out of the Evansville post. The car pictured
to your right belonged to one of the troopers with whom I occasionally
rode and no, I don't remember his name.
