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my goal is to make sure that everybody

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has somebody and and that just doubles

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down for me in a uniform . Considering

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my background Colin James book with

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alpha battery . First of the 158 field

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artillery having a military connection

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military service that helps me connect

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with a big veteran base here . The part

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where I really made my name is mental

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health especially in our veteran

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population . I joined the academy

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thinking like okay like what am I going

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to be good at ? Am I gonna be a good dy

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guy ? Am I gonna be a good dope guy ?

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Am I gonna go out there and hunt drugs ?

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Am I gonna go out there and hunt

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warrants ? Very very early on in my

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career I responded to a domestic

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between husband and wife . The husband

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who was a veteran ended up firing a gun

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at himself in the middle of their

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argument fortunately he uh he left the

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scene prior to the wife calling us . So

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when we get there I find the wife with

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a bullet hole in the wall and she says

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that her husband took off and left the

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gun here . So I end up looking around I

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found the husband the soldier and I was

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able to talk him into coming with me ,

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going to get some help that and other

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calls like that of just helped cement

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the need in my mind of law

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enforcement . Being able to respond and

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adequately care for these people . Not

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only do I want to serve my community ,

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but I want to serve those that serve my

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community . I'm happy to say that we're

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going to be probably the um mental

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health like Law enforcement Training

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Center for Southwest Oklahoma in

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partnership with the Oklahoma

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Department of Mental Health and

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substance abuse services . I've had the

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immense honor of helping revamp the law

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and police mental health response

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program and policies . Um , I was the

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very first crisis intervention officers

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had , I've been deeply involved in

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helping out the adoption of the crisis

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intervention training for our officers .

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And I've also been pushing for the

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critical incident stress management

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program to help first responders in

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particular and law enforcement first

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responders in general . Uh police fire

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E . M . S . Dispatch anybody that goes

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out and deals with these calls on a day

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to day basis has a much higher

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incidence rate of suicide , pretty

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comparable to the military sometimes .

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And I want to make sure that everybody

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gets a chance to get to that retirement

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and enjoy the retirement for a long ,

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healthy life after .