CHP Stand-Down

[Cameron]

I completely understand if Officers are not at liberty to discuss this topic at any great length.

I've been curious about exactly what happened during the CHP stand-down. What was discussed? Was it kind of a pep-talk? Was it a refresher course of some sort?

Also, has there been any mention about changing vehicle stop/approach procedures?

Thanks, everybody. Again, if you can't even talk about this at all, completely understandable.

[Your Mentor]

I don't think it's appropriate to discuss it outside the Chippies Only section Cameron. We certainly can't discuss vehicle stop/approach procedures on an open forum as this is prohibited by departmental policy. In fact, most all officer safety procedures are restricted from public disclosure. Even so, there was more to this than officer safety. But that is entirely an in-house, CHP family thing. Sorry man.

[Cameron]

Understood, Mentor. Silly of me to ask about the vehicle stop procedure. I ought to have known better than to ask that. Thanks anyway. :smile:

[bcjack]

I really hope the "Stand Down" helps you all sort this out and the Guardian Angels begin to cut you all some slack...ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!! :mad:

[SuperTrooper]

I just got back home from an B watch RA. We basically just had an extra long briefing in regard to officer safety. Officers had an opportunity to share their concerns/ideas, and supervisors will relayed the info to other shifts and to HQ and vise versa. Most of the officers coming in to work didn't even realize one of their own had been killed in the line of duty this past weekend. The Captain also spoke about the confusion with the media using the term "stand down" and emphasized that there would be no interruption of services; he also read a statement from Sacramento. There were a couple of other things, but I'm not at liberty to discuss them on an open forum. Other than that, it was just business as usual. It was a very busy day.