Jenn's Reverie

Okay, so I never talk about work. It's EXTREMELY rare that I talk about work. Whether it be my co-workers or what I do here. Why, you ask? Well, when I walk out of this building I leave it all at the door. The work itself is interesting and makes me feel "special." OoOo, I'm speeecial. But my co-workers are for the most part a bunch of lonely old ladies going through change of life who have only their cats, dogs and fingers. Anyhow, there's 856,915,876 procedures in this place. Well, that's not an exact number, but I'm guessing. The way I like to put is, every procedure has a procedure within itself. I work in the "Main." Which is the police station for the Albuquerque Police Dept. and Bernalillo County Sheriff's Dept. My title is, Warrant Technician II. You start out naturally as Trainee, then after training you're on a 6 month probationary period, if you make it past that you're then Warrant Tech I. To be a Tech II there's rules, regulations, and guidelines, or what have you. A Tech II is basically a trainer and has to know all aspects of the department. Well, I guess any trainer does. There's only 3 Tech II's. I'm cool like that. Usually, it should be something that of someone who has seniority, but that's not the case here. These ladies would rather sit with their thumb up their ass and do absolutely nothing. The turn-over is really high. A lot of it is due to the fact that we're a 24 hour facility, work holiday's, have sorry days off, and required to be on-call. Yeah, I get to carry a pager around. Don't be jealous. When paged, you have an hour to get here. It blows. We bid for shifts every 6 months according to seniority. Whereas the sworn personal (officers) bid every year. I'm fifth in seniority so I do okay with the shifts. I'm here on graveyard by choice. I could work "day's" but the day's off were like Wednesday and Thursday. I at least wanted a Friday. So I have Thursday and Friday night off. Swing shift would be ideal for me, if I didn't have my son. Though I'm civilian personal I still have a chain-of-command. My department having more in the chain than normal. Starting with the Specialist (we have 2), Supervisor, Sargeant, Lieutenant, Captain, there's more, all the way to the Sheriff. I'm starting to think you will stop reading this post or already did! This is WHY I never talk about work. But I'll finish anyway, so that if someone asks what I do, I'll do the www dot com thing. So they look at me like a jackass. Hey fuckers, it's the millineum. Everyone and their grandma has a www or a cell. So on to what I do here. I process warrants. Okay, I'm done. I kid! I kid! First you have the "Metro Court Run." This has to do with mainly misdemeanor warrants. On this run we pick up the new misdemeanor's. Anywhere from 0 to 400. These have to be accounted for, logged, alphabetized (that's a bitch and boring as hell), and ready for entry into WITS (Warrants Information Tracking System.) WITS is our local system. Metro Run also sends us "recalls." These are warrants that need to be cancelled because they have been paid or went to court on. This procedure is non-stop throughout the day. Recalls start at about 8am and continue 'til about 8pm. We have to check WITS to see their status which tells us where they're filed, pull the warrant, cancel it and respond to the recall with what we've done with it. Then we send it back to the courts. Then there's the "District Court Run." This is basically the same although with felony warrants. Though there is no one requesting for the warrants to be cancelled and sent back. We have to first do the warrants that need to be cancelled. That process has a hundred processes within itself. We then start the process for the new felony's received. That too has a billion processes. To enter one felony from start to finish takes anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour. There's a few different kind of felony warrants. That have some differences in procedure. There's Unindicted felony's, Grand Jury Indictments, Bench Warrants, and Arrest Orders. Misdemeanor's are just that. To enter a felony into NCIC (National Crime Information Center) there has to be as much research possible done on the subject. We make sure they aren't already in-custody to have them served. We run background checks, III/Criminal History's which give us any aka's, different DOB's, SSN's, fingerprint class, any and all descriptors. We also run the driver's license. After running all of this, we research all the paper work to make sure that all of the information is the same. Also to see if they need to be Cautioned. IE: Armed & Dangerous, Violent History, Escape Risk and so forth. This can be a bitch. Especially when it's sibiling sharing information. Some bastards have up to 25 if not more aka's. Do you KNOW how long it takes to enter all of that shit?! I hate it. Especially when they use different social's or birthday's. Quit lying you querr-bo's! Make my life easier thanks. Then we have Restraining Orders/DVO's (Domestic Violence Orders). I used to like doing these. You get to read what they say about each other. But God how I hate them now. Everyone and their great grandma files for a restraining order. I remember seeing one because her husband "threw a candy bar wrapper" at her. What the fuck?! I don't remember if the judge granted it, but if so, then they should all die. I do not want to take a day processing your stupid paperwork because someone threw a candy wrapper at you. Hit the bastard! Knock his teeth in! Stab him in the eye! Give me something interesting here people. The restraining orders take forever in a day to enter and are very touchy. Any civil case is touchy. And we have to be the ones to put the "Brady Indicator." I don't wanna tell some psycho he can't have a gun. If he finds out I'm the one who restricted him, I'll be the first one he shoots when he's allowed. I feel weird every time I do that one. Though, it's a sense of power. Other than the court runs and restraining orders, I also confirm the validity of warrants for the officers/deputies. Anytime someone is pulled over the officer has their NCIC "run" them." Which means, through NCIC to check if they're wanted. Our local NCIC's which would be APD (city) and BCSO (coutny/Sheriff) run you locally as well. So if this person has a warrant they call me and give me the subject's information. I in turn, run the subject in WITS to see whether it's misdemeanor, felony, or both. If misdemeanor I check the courts docket to see if it's still valid on their side, then pull the file. If felony I just pull the file, unless it's Unindicted and that's a whole other process. Anyhow, once I have the warrant in hand I call back NCIC and confirm the warrant so that the officer can make the arrest, or do not confirm if there's something wrong with it or it's cancelled. When the officer is at the jail we're then called to have the warrant faxed. Faxing also has it's procedures. Stamp with fax stamp, initial, time and date. After fax, it's then stamped with "Warrant Cancellation." Reason which is 10-16 (arrested), date, what agency (given there's a billion) and where they're booked. If they're booked in another county. We have to do the extradition process. Which is yet again a whole other story. Basically we give information to all necessary so that our county will go pick them up and bring them back here. If you're a fugitive, a wanted felon on the run, per se. You'll be found in NCIC. When this happens we receive a teletype requesting for validity of the warrant and if we will extradite. Meaning, will we go pick them up. When we receive this teletype we have 10 minutes to respond with yes we'll extradite, the warrant is valid, what judge, what district, charges and bond amount. If not, the FBI "dings" us. Not good. If we will extradite, we have a whole other process. I used to work with the District Attorney a lot on extradition stuff. It was so fun. I used to get to send teletypes releasing prisoner's or holding them. I guess that sense of power can be really cool. NCIC also gives us bad weather reports, when roads are shut down for that reason or an accident. Any car accident in the state resulting in death which is called a "Fatal." Homeland Security information, which goes right up to the Under-Sheriff. Missing persons, stolen vehicles and so, so much more. I like dealing with the detective's, that's always fun. Or the DA, FBI and rare but at times the Secret Service. I like when they aske me questions that I have the answers to. Or when I have to do research for them and they get all happy that I find something new. I had an officer purpose to me once because he almost messed up on a swat call, but I saved his ass. It was sweet titties! Okay, I'm done with this boringness. Come work here if you want to know more. It's interesting stuff. Oh yeah, but if you ever work here expect to get calls and to be used. My "friends" call with questions ALL the time. Some call for only that reason. I've started directing them to the same place I direct the public when they call. Oh and I forgot to mention how I have 8-10 different passwords for all the programs. I'm not sure how I remember them all because they make us change them all the time. But I manage. So that's what I do. and FYI, I don't like cops. The irony. Oh well. If you read all the way to here, you're a soldier! I commend you! If not, I don't blame you! Until next time. . .

I shot the Sheriff, but I didn't shoot the Deputy. . .