A Week with Law Enforcement
On Monday,
the Law Enforcement students learned about criminal offenses and
the elements of crimes.
On Tuesday, Sgt. Dumdie of the DeKalb County Sheriff’s
Department gave a presentation. He spoke about the canine
(K-9) unit that he supervises. He explained about the duties of the
K-9, including building searches, locating drugs, finding people,
and having the K-9 as a back-up on traffic stops and other calls.
He then hid a “substance” in the bookshelf. He went and got
his dog, Enjo, from his vehicle. Enjo was put to the test in our
classroom. Sgt. Dumdie let Enjo go and within a minute, he
found the hidden item. Sgt. Dumdie then answered questions
from the class.
Sgt. Dumdie spoke of an incident where he was chasing a subject on
an ATV. The subject hid his ATV and tried to hide in the
field. Sgt. Dumdie called out that he was going to “release
the dog”, but the subject didn’t move. He released Enjo, and
the subject who was about 60 yards away saw the dog and raised his
hands to surrender. Sgt. Dumdie, through many hours of
training, was able to stop Enjo by commands before he reached the
subject. Enjo laid down in front of the subject and waited for
reinforcements to arrive.
After Sgt. Dumdie left, second year students spent about 40 minutes
training the first year students ‘how to search’ a building for the
activity that was planned the next day.
On Wednesday, the Law Enforcement students ventured to their
training facility to practice building searches. After a group
(3-4 students) was briefed about the scenario, they searched the
building. They had to find the ‘bad guys’ who were hiding
somewhere in the three story building. Once they did find them,
getting them out and in custody was another story. Luckily,
the students weren’t trying to apprehend real “bad guys,” but
actually police officers from other jurisdictions who were training
officers for their department and volunteered their time to teach
at IVVC.
On Thursday and Friday, Law Enforcement students continued
studying criminal offenses, looking forward to learning the
Illinois Vehicle Code next week.
