Informant 2007-02

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THE INFORMANT

Vol. 8 No. 1 Feb 2007

A Message from our President

A great start for the new year!

We have 4 new members from Class 18 to get us off

to a roaring start. Most members have already

picked up their new shirts and caps. For those who

haven’t picked theirs up, they will be available at our

regular meetings. The board viewed and discussed

jackets at the February Board Meeting. A subsequent

email was sent to all members in an attempt to see

how many would actually be interested in

purchasing jackets. The general response indicated

there is a low interest in jackets. We’ll put those on a

back burner for now. Caps and jackets are not

required as part of the uniform but can be worn as

each individual prefers.

Another item discussed at our board meeting was the

project concerning assistance to families of Round

Rock PD cops who have been called up for active

military duty. A committee subsequently met and

drew up some suggested guidelines that will be

presented to the PD’s Command Staff.

We finished our 1st

Kid’s ID project for the year, on

Jan. 10th, with 139 cards. The event was well

attended and we had 8 members show up to work.We kicked off the month of March with Warrant

Roundup on the 3rd and will follow up with Kid’s ID

projects on the 17th, at Ikea and the 24th at Chase

Bank. We will have our first VIN Etching project on

the 31st

at Farmers Insurance on Hwy 79.

On this same date, 31 March, we will be having our

first social of the year. Time is 6:00 p.m. to 10:00p.m. in the Training Room of building B. The club

will furnish a sandwich tray and drinks. Members inattendance are asked to bring munchies (dips, chips,

fruit or whatever you want to clean out of your

refrigerator – just kidding). We’ll have table games

and probably set up a table of Texas Hold’em.

Ronnie Mueller

Newsletter of the Round Rock Citizen’sPolice Academy Alumni Association

Ronnie Mueller, President

Walter Klingemann, 1st

Vice PresidentMike Goggin, 2nd Vice President

Dana Mueller, Treasurer

Laura McManus, Secretary

John Hughes, Sgt.-at-Arms

Officer Lloyd Bird, LiaisonSgt. David Pierce, Assistant Liaison

Sgt. Robert Horton, COP Liaison

RRCPAAA615 East Palm Valley Blvd.

Round Rock, TX 78681

On the Internet at: www.rrcpaaa.org

Email the officers at [email protected]

The Joos family welcomes Kylie.

Class #55?

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THE INFORMANTJune 2006

Christmas Candy Bags12-09-2006

OK, no sampling till we’re done!

George, Kirsten, Pam, Linda, and Edie

starting to bag ‘em.

Caption

This “round the table” approach is

fast… but dizzying!

Mike, Ashley, Edie, George, Pam,

Linda, and Dana on the assembly line.

Edie and Walter delivering the bagsand finding an appreciative Officer

Nick Atkinson

It must have been good!

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THE INFORMANTFebruary 2007

January 2007 General Meeting

Texas State Board of Pharmacy

Above and below: Investigator Joe

Lewis has so many drugs and weapons

hidden in his clothes, even Officer

Lloyd Bird has a tough time findingthem all! Dr. Phil Holder, Asst. Director of

Enforcement, and Joe Lewis enlighten

us on the many ways that pharmacies

can be defrauded or negligent.

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February 2007 General Meeting

Union Pacific Railroad Police& new shirts

Special Agent Clint Staede explains

UPRR’s jurisdiction, safety items, howtrains are still robbed, and more.

Sgt. Bob Horton discusses the new

uniform shirts.

Various members talk and ask more

questions of Agent Staede during the

break.

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Children’s Health Fair

02-10-2007

Steve, Paul, Ray, and Mike perform

some impromptu tech support.

Walter takes a break waiting for more

work to arrive.

David and Dana help the others make

this our most productive Kids ID

project to date!

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I recently met with Officer Bird and gathered Intel for this article. Officer Bird is from SantaPaula, CA (near Ventura) but he pointed out that he was never a surfer. When he wasgrowing up, he didn’t know what he wanted to be and started out as an Art major. He took anIntroduction to Criminal Justice class and ended up graduating with a bachelor’s degree inCriminology form California State University in Fresno. He had worked as a security guard(without a gun) but his first real law enforcement job was at Cedar Park PD. His first day wasOct. 9, 1997 and he stared at his new badge all the way home. He joined RRPD in April of1999. Currently, Officer Bird is in the Training Division and is also both the coordinator for

the CPA classes and the Liaison for the CPA Alumni Association.

Officer Bird has been married for ten years and has two children. His favoritecartoon character is Bloo from the cartoon Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends . Officer Bird shared that he enjoys the little things in life like actingsilly and singing in a patrol car (Just ask anyone who rode with him!). Hedoesn’t wait for the big moments to enjoy life. Something people may notknow about him is that he’s afraid of ghosts. Kind of interesting since hisfavorite character is a ghost!

I never know what I’m going to get when I ask the officer about their funniest “call”. A 10-96

(mental subject) came to the PD lobby and reported that she had been assaulted bysomeone in the “spirit world”. Instead of arguing with her, Officer Bird listened to hercomplaint and proceeded to look up the issue in the penal code. He informed her that hewas unable to pursue the matter as he could find nothing in the penal code to make thatagainst the law. The woman had calmed down and thanked Officer Bird for investigating thematter and left peacefully. He did nothing further as it is not against the law to be crazy.“One of the greatest skills a police officer can have is leaving the person with the feeling thatyou cared about their problem”.

Officer Bird’s favorite cop show is The Shield . When asked why, he said“because there’s a good looking bald guy on it” (oh, now I see the

resemblance!). So I asked “what’s the best thing about being bald, I’ve noticeda trend here at RRPD?” “Well, I started the bald thing! When I wear a hat, Idon’t have hat hair, I don’t have to comb my hair, I get ready for workquicker…” (and he went on and on).

I asked Officer Bird why he likes being a cop and he shared that he likes the feelings ofcamaraderie and family from the people he works with. His goal is to be a FTO when hereturns to Patrol and eventually retire from RRPD. “I am excited to work with the Alumni. Ienjoy working with people who like the police dept.” We enjoy having you work with us too!

Introducing one of Round Rock’s Finest

Officer Lloyd BirdWritten by Laura McManus, RRCPAAA

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Member Spotlight on Mike Flicinski

I was born in Buffalo, New York in the spring of 1943. My Dad was in the US Army AirCorps training in Texas to be a bombardier in the Pacific Theater against Japan. I’m

convinced the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki allowed my Dad to come home

to raise his family and live to nearly age 84. I have a younger brother and a sister and we

all grew up in what is now suburban Buffalo.

At the time the area was undeveloped and we enjoyed the freedom of living in the country. We rode

our bikes without helmets, played outdoors from dawn until dusk and watched little TV. There wasonly one channel at first that carried all three networks in turn. Later we would have four channels in

living black and white on a 14 inch screen. The one-hour Disney show was a once a year special, at

Christmas, and we grew up with the Mouseketeers, Howdy-Doody, the Lone Ranger, Milton Berle,

Jackie Gleason (as Ralph Cramden) and Zorro. We rode the school bus daily after walking a half mileto the pickup spot.

Growing up near a city we got to visit our grandparents who still lived there and shop at departmentstores, the 5 and dime, family owned bakeries and open air markets. My grandfather worked at a

butcher stand and I can still recall being handed a cold frankfurter to eat right out of the meat display

whenever we stopped to visit while shopping.

In spite of cars with no seatbelts, medicines with no childproof caps, products with no warning labels,

bicycles with no chain guards, reflectors, brakes or helmets and many other yet unidentified dangers, Isurvived childhood, finished high school and went on to college. Along the way I picked up a number

of interests including music (played the Clarinet and later the Sax) and my lifelong hobby of AmateurRadio and electronics.

As a youth I earned spending money fixing radios and TVs (with electron tubes – transistors were just

being developed) and also played in a dance band for weddings and parties and learned to fix my own

car. There was no other way to have a car except to maintain it myself. Buffalo New York is knownfor its significant snowfalls yet I don’t recall being overly inconvenienced nor hampered by winter. It

was normal to have up to several feet of snow and we just shoveled it. We learned that you can’t do

anything too quickly in a vehicle while driving in it. Few cars had air conditioning but the heater had towork well!

A high school buddy invited me to vacation with him and his family a few hours north of Toronto,Canada in the north country dotted with beautiful lakes. It became a regular summertime destinationwhich led to my meeting Pam in the little town of Dunchurch, Ontario on beautiful Whitestone Lake. I

had spent many summers at Pam’s Uncle’s resort but didn’t meet Pam until 1962 when I was already

out of high school and in college. Since the internet hadn’t been invented yet and telephone rates werepretty high, Pam and I grew to know each other via letters and the occasional 300 mile trip. She and

her family lived closer to Buffalo in the city of Hamilton, Ontario during the school year where it was

easier to see each other.

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I joined the Army in 1964. During basic training the Gulf of Tonkin incident took place

and I wondered what I had gotten myself into. Fortunately, I was posted to a Nike-Hercules anti-aircraft missile site in southeast Indiana to the west of Cincinnati, Ohio

and remained there for my entire three-year enlistment. After a year in the Army I came

home on leave and asked Pam to be my wife. She agreed and we threw together awedding in the summer of 1965. Since I had planned so carefully, the few details like

where to live, how she would come into the US and such remained to be worked out. Surprisingly,

although we had to spend our first three months apart, we were able to arrange Pam’s legal entry intothe US and she joined me at my duty station in Southeast Indiana. It helped a lot to be young and

dumb.

We served out my time at that Nike Base constantly looking over our shoulders for those orders for

Southeast Asia that thankfully never materialized and we returned to the Buffalo area in the summer of

1967. I was hired by IBM and began what would be a 31 year career that took us to other places to live

including Florida, the Washington DC area, Southeast Minnesota and eventually to Austin in late1989. I began at IBM servicing what are today museum pieces of data processing equipment using

punched cards. Later I was schooled by IBM to service computers and later prepared for management.I spent the second half of my career beginning as a service manager and later served as an engineeringmanager here in Austin. After retiring from IBM in 1998 I worked for 6 years for TUV Rheinland of

North America as a Sales Manager.

We have two daughters and three grandchildren who live in the Chicago area and in the mountains of

Colorado.

We enjoy travel in our motor home. I still enjoy ham radio after over 50 years and have taken up targetshooting and hand loading my own ammunition. I haven’t played the sax in quite a number of years

but I continue to love music. We have always appreciated the job that law enforcement people do in

serving our community and it is a joy and a privilege to have the citizen’s police academy alumniassociation as a way to interact with our public servants.

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The Best Accidentby Mike Goggin

The lessons learned from community policing programs can occur in any community.

It was a brisk and sunny morning in November in Lubbock. I had just parked the car about a hundred yards

away and was walking up to the University Medical Center. We were there because our oldest granddaughter,

almost 14, had just had surgery to correct the curvature in her spine.

As I walked through the primary parking lot at an angle to make a beeline to the front door, I noticed a couple of

young women helping a man walk away from the building. At first, I didn't think much of it, but then notice just

how much trouble he was having just trying to step up on to the curb. For a second I wondered if he had just

been released, but then wondered if he was having that much trouble, why he wasn’t at least in a wheelchair.

About then I also noticed that one of the women had stopped her car in a lane of the parking lot and left the door

open. I debated whether they needed help and thankfully decided I ought to at least check to see if they did.

They said they were helping the man to his car and figured they were capable of doing so. A few seconds laterthe second one also mouthed that he had been drinking. Stepping a little closer, the aroma of alcohol was quite

obvious.

The man looked to be in his early 60s with a full white beard, as tall as I am, and a bit heavier. I thought about

that while thinking about confronting him about his condition. After a few more seconds, I found myself asking

him "Sir, have you been drinking?" He replied "No", which proved to be the first of many 1-word answers he

would give. I was convinced now that I needed to continue and told him "Sir, I'm afraid I can't let you drive".

"Why not?" he asked. "Because you could hurt yourself or someone else". "I just want to go home".

All the while he was still walking with some stumbling and trying to ignore me. "Sir, if you continue, I'm going

to have to call the police". At that, without a word, he stopped walking! I finally had his attention and

suspected he had dealt with such a proposition before.

By now, a third woman had come to check on what was happening. The scrubs she wore and ID badge made it

obvious she worked there. While she called security, we learned his name was Michael, that he had just tried to

renew his "blue card", and convinced him to sit down on the curb so that he wouldn't fall. The security unitsoon arrived with a Lubbock police unit close behind. A very young officer started talking to Michael while the

security guards collected contact information from the rest of us.

It was quite amusing to watch the officer try to conduct the HGN (eye) test as Michael obviously was acting

distracted and just would not follow the officer’s finger! Now I was certain this was not Michael's first time todeal with such a situation. By now the authorities had everything well under control, so I proceeded on my

way. As I did, I thought to myself how just a few years ago, I wouldn't have done what I did this day. My

involvement with our police department and policing in general had contributed to my understanding thatsomebody needed to stop Michael from getting behind the wheel and that since the two young women weren't

prepared to do that, that I needed to do so.

The best accident is the one that never happened.

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Upcoming Events

March 2007

Sat, 17th

9:30AM-1:00PMKids ID at IKEA

Mon, 19th 6:00-10:00 PM

Last TABC class to be held at Dell Diamond

Tue, 20th 7:00-10:00 PM

CPA class 19 begins, bring refreshments

Sat, 24th 9:30AM-1:00PM

Kids ID at Chase Bank

Tue, 27

th

7:00-10:00 PM CPA class 19, session 2

Sat, 31st 8:45AM-1:00PM

VIN etching at Farmers Insurance

Sat, 31st 6:30-10:00 PM

Social, first of 2007

April 2007

Tue, 3rd

7:00-10:00 PM

CPA class 19, session 3

Thu, 5th

7:00-9:00 PMGeneral Membership Meeting. Special Ranger Chad Barfknechtof the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association!!

Sat, 7th 5:00PM

Timesheets due

Tue, 10th

7:00-10:00 PMCPA class 19, session 4

Wed, 11th

6:30-8:00 PMExecutive Board Meeting

Tue, 17th

7:00-10:00 PMCPA class 19, session 5

Tue, 24th

7:00-10:00 PM CPA class 19, session 6

This list is for planning purposes only. Be sure to visit Go Club online calendar for details, late breaking changes, and to sign up for events!

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RRCPAAA Officers Ronnie Mueller, President

[email protected] 255-5428

Walter Klingemann, 1st Vice [email protected]

238-6173

Mike Goggin, 2nd Vice [email protected]

255-2486

Dana Mueller, Treasurer [email protected]

255-5428

Laura McManus, Secretary [email protected]

913-6037

John Hughes, Sgt.-at-Arms [email protected]

296-1345

Officer Lloyd Bird, [email protected]

218-3266

Sgt. David Pierce, Assistant [email protected]

218-6669

Sgt. Robert Horton, COP [email protected]

218-6658

Committee Contacts

Internet/GoClub

Mike Goggin [email protected]

255-2486

ProgramsEdie [email protected]

924-4259

SocialsDana Mueller

[email protected]

ScrapbookLinda Zamarippa [email protected]

255-2180

2007 Members

Karen Adair-Murphy

Judy Anderson

Tammy ArringtonWyatt Bellis

Gary Brown

Debbie Bruce-Juhlke

Chuck BurtPaul Cecil

Huyau Chen

Chad ChadwellMichael Flicinski

Pam Flicinski

Diane GarganoFrank Gargano

Gary Gillespie

Dana GogginMike Goggin

Kim Gross

Edie Heuss

Billie HuckerJohn Hughes

Michael Johnson

George Joos

Walter KlingemannBenita Kohlmeyer

Jeff KohlmeyerLarry McManus

Laura McManus

Dana Mueller

Ronnie MuellerMorris Noren

Mark Northrup

Steve O’ConnorSheila Offutt

Angie PierceDalton PughNancy Pugh

Rick Scott

Jeremy Sheard

Bennett SpelceRay Thibadaux

Linda Zamarripa

TEXADELPHIA GAME DATES for 2007:

• June 23 (3) • July 7 (2)

• August 4 (3) • August 18 (3)

• September 1 (3)

(x) indicates number of volunteers needed

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