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Talk-Line: Ryan Bivins and Aaron Simonton, Dixon Police Department · WIXN AM 1460 - Shaw Local Radio

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  Speaker 1: We are quarter past the hour. This is Friday. It's
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  Speaker 1: February the twenty eighth. The year is twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 1: and it's time for another informational edition of Tuckline here
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  Speaker 1: at AM fourteen sixteen FM ninety five one. Wix in.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning. I'm Steve Marco. It is time for our
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  Speaker 1: bi monthly look at news and information from your Dixon
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  Speaker 1: Police Department. Every other month we get news and information
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  Speaker 1: from DPD, the interesting information, the special activities in the
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  Speaker 1: special areas of the Dixon Police Department. We obviously know
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  Speaker 1: about the regular routine and the Dixon Police Department's efforts.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, here in our northern Illinois area, we kind
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  Speaker 1: of you know, well, if there's serious situations, yes, we
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  Speaker 1: like to bring those through formation, but we like to
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  Speaker 1: talk about special information from Dixon Police. And we've got
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  Speaker 1: a couple of police representatives joining us today here at
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  Speaker 1: AM fourteen sixty to do the honors. Deputy Chief Matt Richards. No,
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  Speaker 1: he is not with us today, but we do have
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  Speaker 1: in his stead Sergeant Ryan Bivins, who's live with us
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  Speaker 1: this morning here at AM fourteen sixteen FM ninety five one.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Ryan Morris, Good to have you back. It's
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  Speaker 1: been a while since, you know, we talked to you
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  Speaker 1: guys here, and we also have Sergeant Aaron Simonson on
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  Speaker 1: board with this here at wix In. Good morning, A. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: it is nice to see you gentlemen back with us,
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  Speaker 1: and I thank you so very much for participating in
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  Speaker 1: our talk line today. Guys, we are going to talk
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  Speaker 1: about a couple of special areas, and each one of
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  Speaker 1: you as one of these areas that we're going to
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  Speaker 1: highlight today here at AM fourteen sixty and FM ninety
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  Speaker 1: five one. Ryan, I'm going to turn to you first
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  Speaker 1: and talk about what is called the Honor Guard. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know how many people in our local area know
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  Speaker 1: about this organization, this effort, but we are bringing it
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  Speaker 1: back to Dixon Police. Is that right?
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  Speaker 2: We sure are. It's been several years since we've had
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  Speaker 2: an Honor Guard and so we're excited to kind of
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  Speaker 2: get that going. We're not fully up and running yet.
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  Speaker 2: We have officers training as we speak to get to
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  Speaker 2: that point.
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  Speaker 1: Tell us with this intails, what is what are we
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  Speaker 1: talking about?
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  Speaker 2: So the Honor Guard as a group of officers that
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  Speaker 2: they train in drill and ceremony and right they're just
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  Speaker 2: they're looking to represent the colors at different like parades
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  Speaker 2: and things like that.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, okay, all right, So what we're going to do then,
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  Speaker 1: and you say we're bringing it back? Yes, so we
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  Speaker 1: we we've kind of what stepped aside from this.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just something that's kind of I think fell
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  Speaker 2: to the wayside. I think back to I think the seventies.
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  Speaker 2: My dad was actually on the honor.
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  Speaker 1: Guard okay, some police departments.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I have a picture of him and in the
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  Speaker 2: honor guard. And so we're just we're looking to get
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  Speaker 2: that back, get out in the community and kind of
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  Speaker 2: represent the colors and different parades and events.
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  Speaker 1: Cool. Cool, Cool. So so when are we going to
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  Speaker 1: see this, I mean kind of become active again. Are
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  Speaker 1: we going to look for like a special event. I'm
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  Speaker 1: thinking of Petunia Festival down the line, things like that
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  Speaker 1: obviously for rade stuff like that. Is is that what
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  Speaker 1: we're looking at here?
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  Speaker 2: That's kind of the idea. Depends on staffing, right, Okay, okay,
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  Speaker 2: but we don't have a set date. Hopefully maybe next fall.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: It was kind of kind of our target day.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So so we won't see anything right away. With
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  Speaker 1: the return of the Honderguard presentation through the Dixon Police Department,
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  Speaker 1: but we will see it again kind of put back
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  Speaker 1: into action, uh through DPD. And I think it's really neat,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's it's it's kind of a community uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, offering you know, to to kind of you
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  Speaker 1: know spotlight you know, and kind of show up. Let's
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  Speaker 1: make it, you know right, you know, show off the color,
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  Speaker 1: show off the you know, you know, the you know,
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  Speaker 1: the effort and why not. I think it's great. And
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  Speaker 1: I did not know that we had really kind of
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  Speaker 1: you know, shoved the deside a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think just with with training and time. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: these guys are putting in their own time for training,
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  Speaker 2: right and they have to go to you know, a
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  Speaker 2: week long school for drilling, ceremony and presentation of colors
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  Speaker 2: and how to learn all that.
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  Speaker 1: Sure, so a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Goes into it. And then you have equipment and maintenance
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  Speaker 2: and things like that. So it's pretty time intensive.
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  Speaker 1: Now, well all of you guys kind of no.
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  Speaker 2: There's about six officers that are assigned to the volunteered
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  Speaker 2: for it. Officer Garrett Moorhart, he's actually taking charge and
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  Speaker 2: leading the Honor Guard. So he's been on for a
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  Speaker 2: couple of years now and he's got some military experience,
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  Speaker 2: so we're excited to have him kind of heading that up.
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  Speaker 1: Excellent, excellent, So we're kind of in good shape as
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  Speaker 1: far as we're turning the honor Guard to the Dixon
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  Speaker 1: Police Department. So what you're going to see, and it
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  Speaker 1: won't be like I said, it won't be right away,
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  Speaker 1: but it will be down the line that you're going
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  Speaker 1: to see the colors and the uniforms and the you know,
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  Speaker 1: presentation so to speak. Right absolutely at particular events. So
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  Speaker 1: we'll look forward to that coming up. Great to have
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  Speaker 1: that back on board with the Dixon Police Department. And
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  Speaker 1: Ryan tells us about it today here to day AM
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  Speaker 1: fourteen sixteen, FM ninety five one eron. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: turn to you. Now, your topic of discussion today has
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  Speaker 1: to with something a little bit more in the active area,
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  Speaker 1: you know of law enforcement. Right, obviously, the honor Guard,
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  Speaker 1: you know, returning is a special thing, but this has
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  Speaker 1: to do with a little bit more active you know
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  Speaker 1: information as far as a DPD is concerner. You're going
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  Speaker 1: to talk about active shooter response, correct, So what did
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  Speaker 1: what are you going to talk about with this area.
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  Speaker 3: So, along with a lot of the other training that
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  Speaker 3: we do as a department, there were several of us
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  Speaker 3: that had the opportunity to go back in July to
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  Speaker 3: an active shooter Incident management class out at SoC that
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  Speaker 3: was taught by the Illinois Fire Service Institute. And so basically,
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  Speaker 3: in a nutshell, it is a collaboration between police, fire ems,
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  Speaker 3: other emergency services how they collaborate or integrate their response
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  Speaker 3: to an active shooter or a mass casualty incident. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we can talk about like with the high school incident.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously that's near and dear to our heart. We're involved
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  Speaker 3: in that. And so the class that we went to
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  Speaker 3: was kind of geared more towards like a school response,
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  Speaker 3: and school administrators were there on the second day of
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  Speaker 3: the training. But you can utilize that sort of model
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  Speaker 3: for any other active shooter or mass casualty incident in
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  Speaker 3: and of itself. So we thought, you know, there were
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  Speaker 3: four of us that went to that class, we brought
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  Speaker 3: it back to the department. You know, it's too important
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  Speaker 3: to just kind of let go, right, but it's going
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  Speaker 3: to be a slow integration for us, So we took
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  Speaker 3: a we call it a crawl walk run philosophy where
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  Speaker 3: we did in house training kind of powerpoints, classroom materials,
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  Speaker 3: and then built up to kind of tabletop exercises and
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  Speaker 3: more hands on. So we slowly started inviting like the
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  Speaker 3: Dixon City Fire Rural Fire Department at VANCMS and then
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  Speaker 3: Kevin Lally with Lee County EMA has been a huge
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  Speaker 3: help for us too with some of the resources that
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  Speaker 3: he has, and there's been a ton of buy in
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  Speaker 3: from everybody. Obviously, everybody knows the importance of this kind
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  Speaker 3: of training and uh we you know, if you don't
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  Speaker 3: work on it, it's kind of almost a perishable skill.
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  Speaker 3: So everybody has really improved drastically. We do training every
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  Speaker 3: month with all the rotations and once a month, and
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  Speaker 3: we've seen drastic improvements with everybody, and there's been awesome
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  Speaker 3: discussion that have been that's been brought up with it,
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  Speaker 3: and uh, you know, it's it's it's been a really
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  Speaker 3: good thing. So we'll eventually build up to a scenario, sure,
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  Speaker 3: more of a hands on thing.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously obviously something aaron that you don't want.
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  Speaker 3: To you know, you know, have to write write exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's it's it's it's necessary.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we can't be completely absolutely, so that's that's what
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  Speaker 3: we have to do.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. And I'm sure that a lot of your training
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  Speaker 1: and you know, we could talk probably about tons of
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  Speaker 1: different areas that you guys are involved with training on
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  Speaker 1: top of your regular routine that you know you have
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  Speaker 1: to go through in you know, in your efforts with
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  Speaker 1: Dixon Police departmented you you know, above it above that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think a lot of people realize, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just how much you guys put in the extra effort
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  Speaker 1: to know, to to have knowledge, to know these areas
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  Speaker 1: that that you know are necessary right hopefully not ever
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  Speaker 1: being used. Yes, obviously, you know, you're you're right. The
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  Speaker 1: Dixon High School incident was you know, something out of
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  Speaker 1: the water that that you don't want to have happen.
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  Speaker 1: And obviously when you're talking about an active shooter, Aaron,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm harkening to the situation nearing the that
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  Speaker 1: fourth of July incident that you know was in and
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  Speaker 1: around the Chicago roof. Tell you that was awful, awful.
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  Speaker 1: This is kind of the same, right.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it is. In the fact of the matter, is
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  Speaker 3: I mean, yes, it's very important to focus on schools,
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  Speaker 3: but those incidents can unfortunately happen anywhere right outdoor indoor.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, we're ramping up our training to try
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  Speaker 3: to really give everybody a variety of different venues so
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  Speaker 3: to speak, right, And I think you're gonna get a
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  Speaker 3: lot of buy in from the community too, So we're
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  Speaker 3: going to reach out to more places because they they
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  Speaker 3: want to be involved in that kind of training as well.
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  Speaker 3: And again it's just it's just about getting the reps
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  Speaker 3: in and uh, not being complacent. Absolutely, that's the that's
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  Speaker 3: the key to it. And I think everybody's been doing
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  Speaker 3: a really good job about, you know, being involved in
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  Speaker 3: this training and giving a lot of good feedback to
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  Speaker 3: us too.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, And now this is taking place at SOCK.
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  Speaker 3: So the initial training we went to was at SoC
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  Speaker 3: and then we're just kind of bringing this back to
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  Speaker 3: our department, okay, and and then but then sharing it
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  Speaker 3: with the other departments as well, so we will either
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  Speaker 3: have it at our RPD or there'll be other venues
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  Speaker 3: that we can get more people together and just like
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  Speaker 3: I said, share the ideas and and we've come a
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  Speaker 3: long way from starting it in August now.
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  Speaker 1: Terrific, terrific and especially in again, uh bringing in others
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  Speaker 1: and bringing in those needed organizations and those the needed
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  Speaker 1: entities to again get on board and make sure that
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  Speaker 1: everything is compliant to this area, which is a very
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  Speaker 1: serious area that Sergeant Aaron hern Simonton brings to our
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  Speaker 1: table today. So I'm glad that we're talking about it.
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  Speaker 1: It's just part of, as I mentioned, of the of
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  Speaker 1: the numerous training exercises that you guys probably have to
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  Speaker 1: go through. I mean, you, guys, Ryan, you're probably updated
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  Speaker 1: on training in many different areas throughout the entire year,
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  Speaker 1: don't you go through.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we do. We have monthly trainings that we complete online.
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  Speaker 2: We're sending officers to classes all the time. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: so there's so many requirements for the state, but we
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  Speaker 2: also go above and beyond that to where we have
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  Speaker 2: officers seeking out classes for specialty areas and things like that.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, constant training, constant education.
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  Speaker 1: Sure, absolutely, you know, and and and again this is
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  Speaker 1: a this is an unsung area that I don't think
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people you know realize, you know that
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  Speaker 1: you guys have to again include yourself in, you know,
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  Speaker 1: with your regular job duties, you know, you're also involved
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  Speaker 1: in training and as things get more technological, and we
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  Speaker 1: bring this up all the time, you know, things change
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  Speaker 1: and you guys have to be brought up on all
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  Speaker 1: kinds of you know, different aspects of law enforcement. And
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  Speaker 1: that's what they go through when you're involved in law enforcement,
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  Speaker 1: when you're a part of the Dixon Police Department. So
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  Speaker 1: great subject that we're talking about today with our guys
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  Speaker 1: from the Dixon Police Department here at AM fourteen sixteen
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  Speaker 1: FM ninety five one. Just we got about a minute
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  Speaker 1: left to go before we wrap things up. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: since you mentioned college, we should probably mention, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the continuing efforts of the Police Academy out there. I
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  Speaker 1: know that that has helped and kind of bolstering our
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  Speaker 1: unit here right to Dixon Police Department. We've had actually
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  Speaker 1: did we have some graduates of the police Academy? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that already a few. Yeah, so you know, getting and
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  Speaker 1: I know that Deputy Chief Richard's trains teachers out there.
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  Speaker 2: So right, he does, along with several officers on the department,
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  Speaker 2: teach out there instruct Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So again that area active and I know that you
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  Speaker 1: guys will probably be on board with saying, hey, you
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  Speaker 1: know it's good to have that absolutely right, yes, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you know the police Academy at stock Valley Community College.
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  Speaker 1: So in closing again the honor Guard returning to the
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  Speaker 1: Dixon Police Department. We'll watch for that unit to again
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  Speaker 1: reform with the Dixon Police Department in the months to come,
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  Speaker 1: and again training going on. As Aaron pointed out here
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  Speaker 1: at AM fourteen sixty in that area of actor shooter response.
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  Speaker 1: Good topics to discuss this morning, gentlemen on our talk
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  Speaker 1: line today, and we appreciate you bringing the information to
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  Speaker 1: us here at A fourteen sixty Sergeants Ryan Bivens and
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Simonson, thanks guys for joining us today. That's our
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  Speaker 1: talk line today here at AM fourteen sixteen and FM
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  Speaker 1: ninety five one. Let's go to pres next with Tim
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  Speaker 1: Lee at eight thirty