Sparta Police Internship Week 7 (6/18-6/22)

This week we were with patrol again and on Monday I rode with Patrol Officer Joe Antenello. We pulled over a driver for speeding and when we ran the plates it came back the woman had a suspended license in the state of New Jersey. Driving with a suspended license is a arrestable offense, but because she was driving with her friend and her brother who was a Student at Pope John High School Officer Antenello decided to drive them to the students football practice and write the woman for a suspended license. The woman's car was left on the side of Highway 15 North. Other than that the day was pretty quiet. On Wednesday I was assigned to do a night shift with the Patrol Division and to start the night I rode with Patrol Officer Mastandrea and we patrolled on highway 15 and around the town. For the first half of the night it was quiet and I switched and rode with Patrol Officer Carbery and towards the ed of the night we had an emergancy medical call for a women who was having chest pain. We responded and recommended that she be transported to Newton Memorial Hospital to get looked at, so the ems squad came and took her. On Friday I was once again on the night shift and to start the night I rode with Patrol Officer Pensado and the first half of the night was once again quiet outside of a noise complaint. Later in the night Officer Pensado would pull over a van for driving in the median and the driver had an expired license. He also had a warrant from East Orange, NJ for failure to appear in court so Officer Pensado arrested the man and brought him to the station for booking. This was the first time I got to see the booking process. Starting with bringing the arrested man into the salley port garage and shutting the door before taking the man out of the patrol car. Then writing all the paper work that goes into processing and booking. The man would be let go that night with a couple of tickets that he would have to appear in court for. Because I was unable to go to the shooting range this week my last week will be Week 8 and on Monday we would go to the shooting range.