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Talk-Line: Dixon Police Chief Ryan Bivins · WIXN AM 1460 - Shaw Local Radio

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Speaker 1: We are quarter past the hour. This is Tuesday. It's
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Speaker 1: August the twenty sixth, the year is twenty twenty five,
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Speaker 1: and it's time for another informational edition of talk Line
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Speaker 1: here at WIAX in Radio. Good morning, I'm Steve Marco.
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Speaker 1: Time to touch base with our Dixon Police Department, and
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Speaker 1: touching base for the very first time as our new
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Speaker 1: Dixon Chief of Police. He's with us this morning live
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Speaker 1: in studio to give us the low down on again
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Speaker 1: his activity as he takes hold of the Dixon Police
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Speaker 1: Department as chief of Police again. Chief of Police Ryan
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Speaker 1: Bivins is live with us this morning here at wiax in.
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Speaker 1: Chief Good morning too, morning Steve. You know it's the
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Speaker 1: last couple of interviews that I've had with this individual
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Speaker 1: has not been as chief of police. So congratulations first
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Speaker 1: of all, sir, on achieving that goal. Last time that
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Speaker 1: Ryan and I talked, still working in the department, still
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Speaker 1: handling efforts. But then the opportunity came about with the
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Speaker 1: announcement of Chief Howels again hirement or i should say,
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Speaker 1: stepping away from the chief's position made the opportunity available.
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Speaker 1: Ryan was one of those that applied for the opportunity
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Speaker 1: and was chosen as our new Dixon chief of Police.
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Speaker 1: So a very exciting time, yeah for sure, right that
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Speaker 1: is as we move forward. How long now in the
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Speaker 1: seat since.
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Speaker 2: June second, so you know, coming a few months.
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Speaker 1: Okay, okay, all right. You know, I always think transition,
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Speaker 1: you know, as in an important position like this, is
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Speaker 1: always interesting. It doesn't really matter what time of the
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Speaker 1: year it seems to take place. There's always you know
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Speaker 1: a lot of activity, especially in this regard when it
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Speaker 1: comes to the transition of what again you stepped up
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Speaker 1: into as our new Dixon chief of Police took taking
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Speaker 1: over in June, you know, started the summertime obviously, you know,
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Speaker 1: a lot of activity, opportunia, festival, things like that, right,
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Speaker 1: we're under your helm, right right.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, a lot of things going on. And to
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Speaker 3: add to that, we had a couple of retirements with
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Speaker 3: Chief Howl, Deputy Chief Richards. We're already short staff, so
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Speaker 3: we had to hire and promote and shift people around.
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Speaker 3: So a lot of movement within the department within the
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Speaker 3: last couple of months.
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Speaker 1: Which I think, and we talked about this offer, it's
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Speaker 1: kind of standard, you know when it comes to a
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Speaker 1: transition at the position. Like we're talking about the chief
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Speaker 1: of police of a community, there's always some transition that
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Speaker 1: takes place, and no exception. You know, Dixon Police Department
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Speaker 1: did go through transition. Yes again Chief Richards. Deputy Chief
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Speaker 1: Richards announced his retirement. Obviously, Chief Howell is away now
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Speaker 1: from the duties, and there have been again appointments already.
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Speaker 2: Yes, yeah.
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Speaker 3: So initially, you know, Lincoln Sharp, I had to fill
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Speaker 3: my position as detective sergeant. Lincoln's been there for sixteen years, solid,
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Speaker 3: solid officer, solid sergeant. He's taken over the detective division
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Speaker 3: and is leading that. And then we have to promote
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Speaker 3: another sergeant. And Jake Montine, who's been there for sixteen years, experienced,
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Speaker 3: we were able to promote him the sergeant as well.
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Speaker 3: So again some of those you know, veterans, guys with
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Speaker 3: experience in those spots is key.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, keep let's keep talking about the promotions because
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Speaker 1: they we did add or we did promote again a
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Speaker 1: couple of other individuals we did.
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Speaker 2: So.
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Speaker 3: Then Deputy Chief Richard's retired in July, and in his position,
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Speaker 3: we ran a deputy chief selection process. I was able
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Speaker 3: to promote Aaron Simonson to deputy chief and then from
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Speaker 3: that position we were able to promote another sergeant and
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Speaker 3: ed deet so it was an investigations is now a
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Speaker 3: patrol sergeant.
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Speaker 2: So he's both again solid, solid.
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Speaker 3: Officers, great leaders and they're able to take their experience
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Speaker 3: now to that next level.
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Speaker 1: Right a year and this is the the I guess
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Speaker 1: this thing that could happen is that you have those
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Speaker 1: years again of experience in the police depart up to
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Speaker 1: unfold so to speak, that you were able to transition
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Speaker 1: with really not much taken away, as you mentioned, from
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Speaker 1: experience from leadership, right that these positions require.
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Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely, and that's our job too, is not just
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Speaker 3: to be looking right now. We have to be looking
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Speaker 3: five ten years down the road for succession and prepare
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Speaker 3: the next you know, generation to leave the department. So
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Speaker 3: that's one thing that we're focusing on now, is okay,
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Speaker 3: identifying those individuals who excel in certain areas, getting them
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Speaker 3: the experience so that when I'm gone, you know the
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Speaker 3: next person and I know I just took over.
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Speaker 2: But you have to look at that far ahead or
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Speaker 2: if you don't, you're doing a disservice to the department.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, you know you have to you know, You're right,
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Speaker 1: you know, moving ahead, you have to make plans ahead
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Speaker 1: of time in order to compensate. And that's one of
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Speaker 1: the things that I wanted to ask you about, Chief,
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Speaker 1: is you know, with all of these step ups, you know,
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Speaker 1: you know in the department, now does leave a gay
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Speaker 1: I mean, how does that leave the rest of the department.
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Speaker 2: Now it's a young department.
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Speaker 3: So we Deputy Chief Layman, he's going to be retiring
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Speaker 3: the end of January, so another Deputy Chief, Chris Scott,
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Speaker 3: has been selected to take his position.
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Speaker 2: So and then we just hired four new officers.
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Speaker 3: We had one just graduate the academy last week, Owen Hearing,
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Speaker 3: and we hired another three officers won the lateral transfer
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Speaker 3: from the Sheriff's Office, justin White.
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Speaker 2: And then two new officers who will go to the.
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Speaker 3: Academy next week, Griffy Rodriguez and Christian Yepson, you know.
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Speaker 3: And then Tim Pratt's going to be promoted sergeant.
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Speaker 2: So again, just tons of movement.
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Speaker 3: We've got two new detectives, Brad Dempsey and Steve Garrison,
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Speaker 3: are going to be moving to investigations, So tons of movement.
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Speaker 3: What I love about our department is the way we
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Speaker 3: work together. We're never going to let anybody fail and
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Speaker 3: so we have a great team. No matter who's in
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Speaker 3: what position, we're going to come around him make sure
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Speaker 3: they succeed. And it's really seemless. Yes, there's a learning
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Speaker 3: curve with some of the new positions, but the way
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Speaker 3: we work together within our department's pretty pretty amazing. I've
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Speaker 3: seen it for the last fifteen years and we're going
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Speaker 3: to continue that.
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Speaker 1: And it doesn't seem like you miss a beat. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you know, I mean it really doesn't. It doesn't seem
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Speaker 1: like you miss a beat. Seem to have all again
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Speaker 1: of these areas well taken care of again as we
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Speaker 1: move forward under the tenure of our new dition. Police
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Speaker 1: Y Brian Vivens, who's lied with us this morning on
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Speaker 1: the talk line today here at WIXM Chief, I wanted
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Speaker 1: to get your take up front and we can talk
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Speaker 1: about activities coming up on the police calendar things like that,
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Speaker 1: because I know that that's one of the areas that
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Speaker 1: is important to you. But I wanted to get your
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Speaker 1: take now, you know, moving up to a chief of police.
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Speaker 1: Wanted to get your thoughts about, you know, the direction
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Speaker 1: of the police department where you'd like to see it
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Speaker 1: head now as you are taking the seat of chief.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely.
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Speaker 3: So We've always had a great culture within our department.
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Speaker 3: There's not a whole lot that I have to come
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Speaker 3: in and change, but each leader has a little bit
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Speaker 3: of their own spin on things. And so one of
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Speaker 3: the areas that I want to focus on is continuing
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Speaker 3: to the culture that we have of pretty much being
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Speaker 3: a family, but then taking that serving each other in the.
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Speaker 2: In the the service base.
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Speaker 3: So our our mission statements we exist to protect and
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Speaker 3: serve Dixon. And I know it's an old saying, it's
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Speaker 3: been around for a long time, but I'm really putting
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Speaker 3: an emphasis on the service part. I want to be
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Speaker 3: known for a department that we serve beyond the badge.
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Speaker 3: So we get our normal calls and we go to
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Speaker 3: but I want our officers to understand what it means
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Speaker 3: to serve beyond the badge, so being selfless, showing empathy, respect,
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Speaker 3: We have to stay vigilant while we're doing all that,
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Speaker 3: you know, and then by empowering the people that we serve.
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Speaker 3: So it's it's kind of a it sounds a little
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Speaker 3: bit softer side of policing.
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Speaker 2: It's not it's just what we are expected to do.
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Speaker 3: Through the public and that's you know, I want everyone
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Speaker 3: to under stand that we have to learn how to
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Speaker 3: serve each other too. Within the department, we do a
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Speaker 3: good job at it, we can always improve and then
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Speaker 3: take that into the community and really serve, you know,
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Speaker 3: spending time with somebody who's going through a crisis and
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Speaker 3: taking going that extra ten minutes to make sure they're
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Speaker 3: okay or they have what they need, or getting resources
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Speaker 3: for a family that you know needs help, which again
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Speaker 3: we do a lot of, but I really want to
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Speaker 3: take that to the next level. One of the ways
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Speaker 3: that we want to do that is through a youth
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Speaker 3: mentorship program, and that's something that I want our officers
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Speaker 3: to connect with the youth in the community to show
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Speaker 3: them there's people, for one that care about you too.
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Speaker 3: We want to point you in the right direction to
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Speaker 3: succeed in life. You know, if we can have one
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Speaker 3: interaction with you know, whether it be a juvenile it's
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Speaker 3: heading down a path of starting to commit crimes, or
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Speaker 3: they maybe don't have the family structure you know at
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Speaker 3: home and they just need some support or some guidance.
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Speaker 3: We want to be able to help and work with
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Speaker 3: that family.
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Speaker 1: Can't youth mentorship program down a little bit more cheap?
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Speaker 1: Break it down for us a little bit more. Explain
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Speaker 1: to us what that is all about.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, So, so mentorship is huge.
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Speaker 3: As I talked about the succession planning, So we're going
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Speaker 3: to have an officer mentorship program within the department where
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Speaker 3: you know, you have a senior officer mentoring a rookie
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Speaker 3: officer or a newer officer. So I want to take
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Speaker 3: that concept then, and youth mentorship isn't anything new, but
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Speaker 3: it's something to where a police officer while they're on duty,
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Speaker 3: they get, you know, a half hour to go spend
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Speaker 3: some time with, you know, somebody who we've identified, whether
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Speaker 3: you know, we're going to partner with.
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Speaker 2: The school, schools Park District.
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Speaker 3: Different organizations within the community to help identify those those
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Speaker 3: youth that might be you know, a good candidate for
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Speaker 3: the program. The SROs are going to play a huge
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Speaker 3: part in that too, because they're in the school, they
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Speaker 3: see the kids they know who you know could use
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Speaker 3: some maybe extra support. And so then that officer is
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Speaker 3: going to develop that relationship with that that d visual
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Speaker 3: with that child and be there to support them kind
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Speaker 3: of through life.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so so this is going to start, uh when though,
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Speaker 1: I mean when does? I mean when do when do
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Speaker 1: you pick up and and start you know, teaching in
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Speaker 1: in the in the youth area.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so this is an area. This is a hard
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Speaker 2: balance for me.
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Speaker 3: I have so many ideas in my head and I
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Speaker 3: want to I want to get out there, but we have.
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Speaker 2: To make sure that we're ready.
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Speaker 3: And I don't want to ever launch anything until we're
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Speaker 3: ready within our own department. So I don't have a
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Speaker 3: set time frame. I I had hoped for this fall.
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Speaker 2: With all the.
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Speaker 3: Changes going on within the department, we kind of you know,
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Speaker 3: have to get settled into that, and so I don't
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Speaker 3: have exact time frame. I'm hoping this school year, so
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Speaker 3: at some point that we can get that launched.
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Speaker 1: Okay, and this and this and this will be for
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Speaker 1: what the middle school high school age?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, kind of kind of that middle school high school. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: we don't have a set age on it, just you know,
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Speaker 3: kind of more of the teenage years though, those really
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Speaker 3: impressionable you know, preteen teenage.
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Speaker 1: Sure, as you mentioned, you know, the concept has been
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Speaker 1: with it. I mean we've had that concept and we've
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Speaker 1: had I think it's kind of well, obviously got interrupted
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Speaker 1: by the COVID outbreak. I'm sure the pandemic didn't help,
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Speaker 1: you know when it came to that particular program, So
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Speaker 1: it kind of got shoved a little bit to the
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Speaker 1: back burner, so to speak, because of the situation that
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Speaker 1: we were all involved with then. But I like to
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Speaker 1: see that would be great to have that youth mentorship
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Speaker 1: program come about through the Dixon Police Department. One of
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Speaker 1: Chief Vivins again goals as we move forward then in
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Speaker 1: his tenure as our Dixon Police Chief. Chief Ryan Vivins
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Speaker 1: is with us this morning here at WIX and. Chief
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Speaker 1: we're going to take a break at the bottom of
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Speaker 1: the hour. We've got news first information coming our way shortly.
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Speaker 1: But when we come back, Chief has some upcoming activities
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Speaker 1: on the calendar that he wants to talk about, and
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Speaker 1: we're going to continue talking about his thoughts about the
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Speaker 1: future as we chat with our new Dixon Police Chief,
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Speaker 1: Ran Bivens today on the talk line here at WIX
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Speaker 1: and Let's take five minutes our new Dixon Police Chief.
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Speaker 1: This is our first opportunity that we've had to query
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Speaker 1: our new day Some police chief since he took office.
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Speaker 1: Way back in June. Dixon Police Chief Ryan Bivens's live
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Speaker 1: with us at the microphones this morning here at w
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Speaker 1: ACCENT and Chief, again, we thank you for the extra time.
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Speaker 2: You're welcome.
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Speaker 1: Well, we really appreciate you spending the extra time with us.
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Speaker 1: And again, congratulations on again your advancement into the seat
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Speaker 1: of police chief here in our community. It's going to
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Speaker 1: be the chief has been granted from Ernie. I tell
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Speaker 1: you what you know, and you should be. You should be.
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Speaker 1: You put in the time and again it pays off.
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Speaker 1: And congratulations again. And we've talked about moving forward in
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Speaker 1: some areas. We want to continue talking about that moving forward.
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Speaker 2: Chief.
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Speaker 1: You know, we talked about your medership program, talking about
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Speaker 1: establishing that again getting the youth more involved than law enforcement.
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Speaker 1: Law enforcement, let's face it, Chief, these days, has really
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Speaker 1: taken it on the.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's we've had some some tough years for sure.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, not just locally, but originally nationally. It's been scrutinized.
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Speaker 1: You know, law enforcement has really you know, come under
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Speaker 1: I guess the microscope, so to speak, in in areas
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Speaker 1: and I know that you know, with with your transition
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Speaker 1: into the chief of police position here in Dix that
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Speaker 1: I can see that, you know, you want to be
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Speaker 1: more transparent. Is that what we're talking about. Yeah?
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Speaker 3: Absolutely, you know, I will say we've been very blessed
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Speaker 3: in our community. We haven't you know, nationally, it's been
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Speaker 3: tough for law enforcement, I will tell you in Dixon
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Speaker 3: and probably you can speak for a lot of you know,
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Speaker 3: Lee County, we haven't really felt that we have amazing support.
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Speaker 3: And you know, yes, there's sometimes where you know, we
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Speaker 3: might upset somebody, but overall, the support that we have
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Speaker 3: from the community is pretty amazing. Yeah, But transparency is huge.
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Speaker 3: That's that's a part of you know, moving forward, the communication,
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Speaker 3: whether it be through Facebook or press releases or even
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Speaker 3: coming on and you know, talking with you right, and
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Speaker 3: just being open about what we're doing, the different officers
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Speaker 3: that are we're hiring.
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Speaker 1: You know.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, the days are gone of trying to long gone.
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Speaker 3: We we haven't been like that as apartments since I've
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Speaker 3: been here, you know of. But we have to be
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Speaker 3: open with and and honest with the community for sure.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, and I think that's uh uh, it's important.
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Speaker 1: And you're right, Chief, we're kind of unique, I think
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Speaker 1: in our area.
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Speaker 2: Really we are. Yeah. We we really have a great
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Speaker 2: partnership with the community.
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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, a lot of support, uh and a lot
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Speaker 1: of great backing and again hopefully that support will continue
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Speaker 1: under the tenure of our our Chief, Ryan divins with
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Speaker 1: us the day here at w ACCENT Chief. You know,
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Speaker 1: as we move forward again talking about some of the
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Speaker 1: things that you would like to accomplish. There's been you
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Speaker 1: know obviously, uh, you know, the technology crazes especially you know,
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Speaker 1: grab a hold and we're seeing uh, you know, more
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Speaker 1: and more in the way of advancement in the way
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Speaker 1: of modern technology these days in law enforcement. And I'm
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Speaker 1: sure you're can of take advantage.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, So a lot of the technology is beneficial to us.
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Speaker 3: And so one area we see that as in the
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Speaker 3: squad cars, we get to have a lot you know,
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Speaker 3: I say, fancier equipment or options within the car that's
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Speaker 3: honestly better for officer safety, whether it be a switch
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Speaker 3: you know, to make the lights at night, you know,
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Speaker 3: the red and blue lights dimmer, or you know, so
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Speaker 3: people can see better.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 3: So technology is always advancing, but you know, the body
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Speaker 3: cams and and the AI, right, there's a there's a
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Speaker 3: ton of options out there with body cams now that
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Speaker 3: act as your microphone. They can translate for you, they
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Speaker 3: can honestly, they can write your reports, right, and so
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Speaker 3: there's a there's a balance I think there. But yeah,
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Speaker 3: the technology and law enforcement is definitely advancing, but also
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Speaker 3: too within the world of of criminals. They use it
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Speaker 3: for different activities too. That makes it challenging, whether it
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Speaker 3: be financial crimes or you know, the internet, crimes against children,
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Speaker 3: things like that. So the technology that's out there is
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Speaker 3: a good thing and it can be used for good,
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Speaker 3: but it's also very scary too that what it can
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Speaker 3: be used for.
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Speaker 1: You bet, you're right open to kind of words for it.
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Speaker 1: Like you said, Chief, you know, as far as you
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Speaker 1: know the good side of advance. You mentioned the body
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Speaker 1: camps and are we are we good with the body camp.
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Speaker 3: So yeah, we we have body cams and uh yeah,
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Speaker 3: it's our policy that that we we have them. You know,
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Speaker 3: there's exceptions when we don't have to have them on
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Speaker 3: uh you know, community caretaking or if you're you know,
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Speaker 3: inside of corrections facility things like that. But yeah, our
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Speaker 3: body cams don't translate. Those are expensive, they're pricy. We
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Speaker 3: don't have the AI body cams someday, you know, we
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Speaker 3: may be something we look at or maybe that's the
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Speaker 3: only option to buy, who knows, But right now we're
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Speaker 3: just have the standard you know body cam that records.
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Speaker 1: Okay, and those are being used those those by all
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Speaker 1: patrolling officers.
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Speaker 2: Again.
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Speaker 1: Uh yeah, that's one technical advancement that we've been kind
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Speaker 1: of on top of, uh you know, when it came
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Speaker 1: to legalizing and requiring actually yeah, these are required.
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Speaker 3: They're required, and so you know, and honestly we love
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Speaker 3: them because you know, if you're doing the right thing
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Speaker 3: as an officer, there's no issues, right and so it's
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Speaker 3: it's a great tool that we can use for you know,
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Speaker 3: writing reports when we can go back and lookt at
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Speaker 3: the call and you know, get statements and capture evidence
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Speaker 3: that you might not otherwise see, you know, firsthand.
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Speaker 2: So it's a great tool to have.
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Speaker 1: Again, that very interesting areas again moving forward with our
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Speaker 1: Dixon Police Department in the advancement areas there, chief kind
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Speaker 1: of going to take a little bit of an offshoot here.
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Speaker 1: I know that a community is important to you. We
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Speaker 1: talked about that being transparent to the community, but the
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Speaker 1: Dixon Police Department does present some community offers as you mentioned,
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Speaker 1: wanting to get the mentoring program back up, but we've
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Speaker 1: got some special activities coming up on the calendar that day.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we do.
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Speaker 3: We just had clothes for kids last week, so that's
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Speaker 3: where we get together with families that we identify prior
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Speaker 3: to and go back to school shopping for clothes. So
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Speaker 3: we had that last week. Chris Scott organized that, did
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Speaker 3: a great job with it. And then coming up on
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Speaker 3: September twentieth as Cops and Bobbers Brad Dempsey. He organizes
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Speaker 3: this and he does a phenomenal job.
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Speaker 2: Every year.
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Speaker 3: We have a great turnout. Families sign up, bring their
18:37
Speaker 3: kids down and they fish. We grill out some hot dogs,
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Speaker 3: do some giveaways, some you know, prizes and things like that.
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Speaker 3: So it's turned into a it's gone on for years,
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Speaker 3: but Brad has kind of taken it to the next level.
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Speaker 1: But again under your guys, I know that it's important
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Speaker 1: that we continue with these community outreach It is right.
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Speaker 3: That's what we tell all our officers. If you have
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Speaker 3: an idea, let's run with it. You know, we want
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Speaker 3: everyone to feel like they have that ability to bring
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Speaker 3: up an idea and say, hey, you know I want
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Speaker 3: to I have this idea and I want to I
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Speaker 3: want to run with this, whether it be a you know,
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Speaker 3: we've been working with the park district, you know, to
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Speaker 3: get involved in their spark camps and and you know,
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Speaker 3: different sporting events to get officers up there, and that's
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Speaker 3: something we're going to do to where we can go
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Speaker 3: up and give a fifteen minute presentation to these hundreds
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Speaker 3: of kids at Spark camp and talk to them about
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Speaker 3: bullying and cyber you know, safety and things like that.
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Speaker 3: So you know, we have within the mission, we have
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Speaker 3: kind of three priorities, and that's to protect, to serve,
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Speaker 3: and to partner.
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Speaker 2: And the partnering is is a huge one. Not only
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Speaker 2: are we going to partner with.
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Speaker 3: Like the the kids, but we want to partner with
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Speaker 3: the businesses, with the churches, with the schools. We want
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Speaker 3: to have that partnership where we you know, everyone feels
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Speaker 3: like they can reach out to us if they need something,
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Speaker 3: and if we need something, we can go to them
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Speaker 3: and say, hey, let's work together on this.
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Speaker 2: There's a challenge. Let's work together and come up.
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Speaker 1: With a solution like National Night Out, which is.
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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, it was. Thank you for bringing that up.
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Speaker 3: Lucas camera officer camera did an outstanding job. He kind
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Speaker 3: of builds on that each year, and so he brings
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Speaker 3: a ton of different organizations within the community together and uh,
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Speaker 3: you know, we have a great night and people are
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Speaker 3: able to bring their families and kids and hop in
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Speaker 3: you know, different trucks.
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Speaker 2: We had os f.
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Speaker 3: Uh you know, land helicopter and so I mean that
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Speaker 3: that kind of stuff's pretty neat.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, But I think it's it's it's fascinating enough
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Speaker 1: just having the equipment that you on a daily basis,
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Speaker 1: you know, are using every day in your jobs. But
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Speaker 1: but but people, uh, the commoner doesn't know, you know,
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Speaker 1: a lot of the stuff that you guys.
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Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, within the squad, I mean there's we have
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Speaker 3: a we have a vault, and we have different things.
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Speaker 3: But there's within the squad there's you know, tons of
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Speaker 3: different equipment that you can use. Whether it be a
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Speaker 3: lockout kit to open somebody's car, you know, whether it
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Speaker 3: be the radar, whether it be a shield, whether it
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Speaker 3: be a ram if we have to breach a door
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Speaker 3: to get in to help somebody, or you know, different
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Speaker 3: things like that.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, so that National Line out, you know, gave people
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Speaker 1: the opportunity to actually go up and look inside and
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Speaker 1: view and you know, probably get a little education from
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Speaker 1: the officers on hand.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, Yeah.
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Speaker 3: We had a great turnout from officers and I know
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Speaker 3: the county Sheriff's officers there with a lot of their
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Speaker 3: toys and so yeah, for the kids to get to
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Speaker 3: be able to see that this first hand is pretty neat.
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Speaker 1: Cops and Bobers.
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Speaker 2: Again, what's the date on that, September twentieth, Okay, September.
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Speaker 1: So that's next month. This will be before the next
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Speaker 1: time the Chief and I get together, So I'm going
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Speaker 1: to make sure that we emphasize September the twentieth, that's
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Speaker 1: Cops and Bobber's Day. That's a weekend day. I believe
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Speaker 1: that's a Saturday, and that'll be at Page Park. Page Park.
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Speaker 1: Even with the you know activity going on.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well we'll make it work.
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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, you know we got a lot of activity. Sorry,
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Speaker 1: I just wanted to make sure that we were okay,
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Speaker 1: you know with that you know kind of area down
21:53
Speaker 1: there that's under the guys right now of a you know,
21:55
Speaker 1: construction of a walking bridge across the river. And obviously
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Speaker 1: that's a big project that everybody's watching, including the police department.
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Speaker 1: Here at Della again the Dixon Police Department Cops and
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Speaker 1: Bobbers September twentieth, that's a Saturday, and public is invited.
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Speaker 3: If yeah, check out the Facebook page and all the
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Speaker 3: information will be on the Facebook page.
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Speaker 1: Go to the Dixon p d's Facebook page practically updated
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Speaker 1: every day, and again get the information about the upcoming
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Speaker 1: cops and Bobber's community activity within the Dixon Police Department
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Speaker 1: in the month of September. Chief, I know that we
22:28
Speaker 1: could go into a lot of different areas and we're
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Speaker 1: going to save a lot of this. But the next
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Speaker 1: time that we converse right here on WI Accent again,
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Speaker 1: we congratulate you on your again being promoted to chief
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Speaker 1: of Police. I think we're in good hands. Underneath you
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Speaker 1: are now current Dixon Police Chief Iran Bivins, who will
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Speaker 1: be visiting with us here at w Accent. Chief, thanks
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Speaker 1: for joining us.
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Speaker 2: Thank you steveciate.
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Speaker 1: Chief Ryan Bivins of our Dixon Police Department, our guest
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Speaker 1: today on AM fourteen sixteen FM ninety