Today was day #2 of the training. By far it was WAY better than day #1. Today we started out with the handcuffing techniques and proper ways to escort the inmates while they are handcuffed if they are not being compliant. We all partnered up and performed each one on each other. Since Jones and I started at NCI in the same class together, we decided we would team up and tackle this together. So far we learned four types of handcuffing techniques....all of them are very effective in, A: nearly breaking your wrist if your not careful and B: bringing a grown man to his knees no matter how big he is. It was fun to go over it though and be familiar with the cuffs since all we had done prior was just tell the inmate to out their hands behind their backs and put the cuffs on. Along with the techniques we of course had to learn more policy. Policy that tells us why we have to have certain hands here or there to prevent this or that. It was actually very interesting.
According to the instructors, the NCDOC is gonna start incorporating a physical fitness agility test prior to them hiring you. Which after looking at the size of some of the men and the women...I can see why. There are numerous people that have no business in the DOC because they cant perform their job duties efficiently. I have seen it so many times already. It aggravates me to know that if I need backup, and I have to depend on them, they will either pass out on the way there, stop 50 times to catch their breath, or stop when they get there and be so out of breath they are useless. Is this mean of me to say? Sure it is. But its the truth. Fat/unhealthy/out of shape people do not belong in the DOC. Yesterday was a prime example. While working with the firearms, one of the officers went down on one knee to practice shooting and couldn't get back up, then proceeded to fall over. Sorry but in my opinion, they should have never passed the physical.
The firearms functionality test we had was pretty simple yet very informative. The instructors are very serious about safety as they should be when it comes to firearms. A handgun is not meant to be babied, yet so many of the officers felt the need to ride the slide back ad forward cause they thought they were gonna hurt the gun. Nope, definitely wrong.Your not gonna hurt it. I mean there were people that were jamming the gun when you do the slap, rack, ready. How is that possible? I have very little experience with handguns and even i ADD to the max Kevin, was able to follow instructions. We also learned all the basic parts and actions of it. Tomorrow were gonna spend the entire day at the range. It should be fun. Were supposed to have a couple hours to practice then we have to qualify. After that were supposed to do our low/limited light or night fire. Yeah that means were gonna be there till 10om if all goes accordingly. Oh well. It should be fun.
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