Eddie_Matt

Final Script - Matt Klein

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Its been pretty active with home burglaries and stuff like that - so we are going to do some supression, make contacts, stuff like that - do some traffic enforcement - {pause} see what happens

Eddie’s an officer with the menlo park police department- We start the day by going to a recent hotspot for crime. We park and idle in a shady spot near an intersection and eddie begins to size up each car that drives by. He’s looking for suspicious vehicles and probable cause to pull them over.

We pull over a chevy impala for having excessively tinted windows. Eddie tells me to stay in the cruiser so I watch him slowly approach the car- he waves and smiles at the grandma in the back seat, talks to the driver of the car for a couple of minutes-

Suddenly he runs back to the cruiser, jumps in and we zoom off

Eddie had seen a suspicious SUV fly by us with tinted windows and no license plates, so he gave the first vehicle a warning, and we chase after the SUV

We pull them over, but It turns out that they had just hadn't put their license plates on, so eddie gives them a warning and we head back out on the road

I've worked at menlo park since 2013 - i was a community service officer first - then the position opened up for a police officer - went through the academy - and i've been on patrol as a menlo park police officer for almost two years now

Eddie’s a young cop, but his instincts and reactions are quick and almost veteran like. I asked him how they trained him for that and he said they didn't. His training officer just threw him into it.

Alright you want to swim? Okay no lessons you are going straight into the water. And you kind of learn that way.