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Originally Posted by LaneSig
Was it required or did your chapter volunteer?
If it was a volunteer situation, while it may not remove all of the liability issues, you willingly put yourself into the situation.
Requiring someone to ride along? Officers have no idea if a situation can spin out of control. Having a civilian present, particularly one who did not volunteer? Who is the officer more responsible for? The situation, their own physical well being, or protecting a civilian who is present? There are all types of potential situations that can occur. Adding an extra person, an unwilling civilian, helps no one.
Make 'em pick up trash around campus instead.
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Volunteered. And I in truth do not recall the why behind it.
Not sure if it was a class I was taking at the time or a ride along program of the school and TPD to show students what the PD did.
And as I tried to indicate, we were NOT first responders.
We also had tours of HQ, and jails.
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