In this episode we talk with Detective Jason Plumb, who has spent a lifetime saving lives, first as a paramedic, then as an officer in the insanely busy Rochester, New Hampshire PD. A chance meeting with some PCSO deputies made him think the grass might be greener down here. It certainly was – and not just because it wasn’t covered in snow half the year. He liked it so much he even brought five of his friends down from his former agency. How’s that for recruiting? Since joining us, he’s had his share of adventures, including being a lead car in one of the most famous pursuits our agency ever had. Now he works in the innovative Mass Casualty Planning Unit. Hear about the work he’s doing to make private schools safer and get our entire county ready to deal with an active shooter, natural disaster, large-scale accident, or any other mass casualty event. Plus find out if nips and bubblers means what you think it means.

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In this episode we talked with “the world's most uninteresting man,” Deputy Chuck Skipper with the Crime Prevention and Community Awareness Unit. If you’ve seen some of our creative safety videos, Chuck’s face is a familiar one and you know he’s anything but uninteresting. He has a passion for crime prevention and will do almost anything on camera for the sake of good messaging, but there’s so much more to Chuck than that. He shares his humble beginnings in the wings of the Marion County Jail where he encountered some of Florida’s most notorious serial killers and discusses the realities of working the road in a rural county – where backup is seemingly hours away when you’re in a fight surrounded by extremely dangerous poultry. You’ll learn about his PCSO experience investigating often gruesome crashes, traffic enforcement from the air, the latest scams ravaging vulnerable populations, and all things crime prevention...all on the latest episode of 56.

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In this episode we talk with Assistant Communications Center Shift Supervisor April Bonnemann, whose world moves at a mile a minute as she gives deputies the crucial information that keeps them safe in their dangerous job. She might not be on-scene, but she still gets all the stories, from the man who caught an alligator in the bedroom with his wife, to the hopeful Romeo who stole a semi-truck to pick his lady friend up when she was released from the jail. Just how do you stop a fleeing car hauler anyway? For a dispatcher, there’s never a break – she once managed three separate overlapping stolen vehicle calls at once – and now as a supervisor she’s not just responsible for one radio channel, but for all of the activity in the comm center. There’s a lot more going on than you might think when you place that 911 call!

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