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Medical Retirement: How I Handled My Inner Liar

January 9, 2018 by Ruth DuCharme 2 Comments

Welcome to 2018, where resolutions are put into effect (for a month at least) and change is on the menu. For me the biggest change comes with my retirement! I served my department for 16.5 years and due to an injury I was medically retired. There is definitely a transition period from being a cop Read more

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What are You Leaving Behind? Transfer P1

November 14, 2017 by Ruth DuCharme 2 Comments

Transfer theory: What are you leaving behind? Part I It is a cold and stormy night. (Don’t all great crime novels start out this way?) You get the call over the crackling radio to respond to an address regarding a strange smell. You arrive and by peeking through the window you discover a grisly murder Read more

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Filed Under: from the beat, musings

Looking for Trouble

October 21, 2017 by Ruth DuCharme Leave a Comment

Someone told me that law enforcement is the only profession in which an individual goes out looking for trouble. This is true! But let me share with you what “trouble” looks like. Trouble looks like a homeless woman curled up on the sidewalk in the middle of the day, in a puddle of her own Read more

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Filed Under: from the beat, memoir

Rookie Police Officer – Day One

October 6, 2017 by Ruth DuCharme 1 Comment

I stood in the locker room and looked at myself in the mirror. I was getting sworn in as a police officer in about 15 minutes and I was carefully examining myself in the mirror to ensure I looked perfect in my new uniform. I was so nervous but I was also so proud! I Read more

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Expected to Do Everything Except Everything the Big Boys Do

September 23, 2017 by Ruth DuCharme 3 Comments

As a new officer you will not only be expected to do everything any other officer is expected to but you will also be excused from doing everything they do. Confused yet? Day Two on the Job “Two Lincoln six, I’ve got one running southbound through the block! BMA, black puff coat, six foot, holding Read more

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Filed Under: from the beat, nonfiction

A Fathers Love

September 23, 2017 by Ruth DuCharme Leave a Comment

I sat parked with a clear view of the entrance to the police station. My supervisor car backed into a shaded parking stall, my sergeants brow furrowed,  I went over in my head what I was going to say to the new officer I was about to chastise. The longer I sat there, the more Read more

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