I did not give a presentation as much as we shared our stories and challenges about being Law Enforcement. I met with investigators, patrol police, community relations, crime scene techs and even chiefs. The point was to speak in English with a native speaker (me) on topics they were familiar […]
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October the 6th was the Friday I was joined by 2 Ukrainian instructors, Polukhin Stanislav and Alina Shakhova, to teach two classes that day. The first was from 9am till 1pm; the second started at 2pm and went on until 6 that evening. Each class had ten students, some were fresh […]
October 2023Today they have sworn the Oath of allegiance to the Ukrainian people. “Today you join a very large police family. So be solidary with each other in the hardest days of service.” Michael Bates, Senior Police Officer of the Special Operations Management Rapid Response Unit, Houston (USA), addressed the […]
Today, May 9,2023, I attended the one-year anniversary memorial for the first Ukrainian police officer who had died in the war. That’s the same officer whose body I assisted in retrieving last year and whose funeral I attended.