Clinton Jaws - I failed my Police Final Detachments

Episode Date: November 23, 2022

Former Police Officer, Clinton Jaws shares his final detachment story at police training, RCMP Depot. call the hotline [phone] Clinton Jaws: Official Website https://www.clintonjaws.com https://thegoldenbadge.comJoin this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWxFkykJzUk32iGqzSzXNYQ/join  https://www.instagram.com/clintonjaws/  https://open.spotify.com/show/3hWntbop6gLEg6RFR0aOzJ  https://www.facebook.com/clinton.jaws.7/  https://twitter.com/ClintonJaws  https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/clinton-jaws-police-podcast/id1540431707

Clinton Jaws, guys, I'm going to be telling you a story of my failure that might help you at Police Training Academy, specifically RCP Academy, trying to become a cop. I almost failed my final detachment's, and I probably should have failed them. And I'm going to tell you this story. I'm going to make myself look bad because it might help you. It might help you when you're about to take your final detachment. attachments at any police station in, or no, sorry, any police academy in Canada, US, anywhere. And if you're from TikTok, because I just got a thousand new subscribers that came over from

TikTok to YouTube, I know you're probably expecting something different, but don't desubscribe from what I'm saying because I'm still going to be doing those videos that you just watched at TikTok. It got a million views. And thank you for subscribing, but stick around. I'm still going to do more. I think you like the video. Here comes the trigger. I might put a card up. Keep on watching.

Okay, I'm going to be doing more videos like that. If you want to become a cop in Canada, if you want to become an RCMP member in Canada, everybody's got to go to Saskatchewan. They got to go to depot. They got to go through Depot for six months. I'm at the end. I'm at the very end and I'm rattled.

I'm rattled because I got so many exams. I got to do my final exam, written exam. I got to do my final detachments. What's the final detachments? You go around with an instructor in a cop car, a real cop car, and they have little scenarios. Might be assault scenario, marijuana, legal drug scenario. And you meet up with real actors. And either you arrest or you don't arrest.

And if you do something wrong, you fail. You fail. It's very stressful. And I'm just rattled at the end. I got my boards I got to do my panels or whatever they were called final exam and this goofy thing that I got to do and it makes no sense it really makes no sense to me okay this is what happened I had a guy email me a cadet at depot and he said Clint I double failed and I'm like oh he's at the end of training I don't want to see the guy going home Can I give them advice? I can't give them any advice. If I was at depot, I wouldn't fail anybody at the final detachment.

There's no way because it makes no difference. I'm a rattled guy. I was rattled during those final detachments. But it makes no difference because when I was on the street, I was steady as you can be. But what really stressed me out was police academy and being judged and being tested. and being tested. That's what stressed me out.

So I really think it's a crock of that you can get all that way that far at police academy and just have some goof-off instructor tell you you got to go home and possibly determine your life, your outcome for you, that you're not going to become a cop. The guy might be a loser. There's a lot of losers. There's a lot of losers at Deppo. Instructors. There's a lot of great people, but there's a lot of losers.

There's a lot of weird stuff going on. Why do you think some of them go to Deppo? But they're just, they're characters, their personalities, and they're not perfect. Some of them aren't perfect people. And they're judging you. And your life depends on them, really. And I just think it's so mean. cruel that you would go to the 24 week mark only to have somebody to say you got to go home.

Really? So his, he, uh, really, just show the viewership, okay? 1800 dollar cat, you want it? So what about the kids? Oh, great. Thank you. I needed that. Okay, get down. So his story, It stuck with me. And the other night, I message him and I'm like, how'd you make it out? They back-trooped him. He ended up being a cop and it made me really happy. But these stories that you guys tell me, these stories that you, and call the hotline guys, 604-33025-12, but these stories, they stick with me.

They make me sick. It was a nightmare. Could you imagine being at police academy? at the very end? They tell you you got to go home. Luckily for this kid, they back-troped them. They didn't have that when I was going through depot. Here's my depot story. Here's my final detachment story. It's the day of final detachments. And here's the embarrassing part. This is how I remember it. And I might be wrong with my memory. Uttering threats in the criminal code. Okay. All through depot, for some stupid reason, I thought that the only

uttering piece, that was the only example we ever used in class was, I'm going to kill you. Okay, that's uttering threats. I'm going to kill you. That's uttering threats. Nothing else is uttering threats. You know, if somebody says, I'm going to break your shin, obviously that's not uttering threats. That's what I thought in my head. I don't know. why I thought this? That's just something I thought. I'm going to beat you up. It's not uttering threats. Do you know how many people I said to that when I was growing up? I'm going to beat you up? I didn't think that you could actually be arrested for that. So for whatever reason, it was stuck in my head, probably because we used it for an example all the time in class,

uttering threats is it could only be I'm going to kill you but of course that's not true it could be uttering threats could be you better watch your back could be as simple as that so embarrassing point number one how did I go through depot police academy thinking that but that's what I'm thinking so this is what happens the day of my five final test. I'm in the afternoon. There's cadets that do it in the morning. I wasn't one of them. And there's cadets that do it in the afternoon. They give you a radio. Everybody gets a radio. And they told me, my instructors told me, don't listen to the radio. Don't listen to the other scenarios because they might change in the afternoon. I didn't listen to it. So I had my

radio down and for four hours all the way up like from eight to or nine eight or nine to noon or one i just listened to all the scenarios that my troop was going through and i'm memorizing them and this this one kid uh in my troop i don't know who it was but he had to refuse to leave he had to refuse to leave he ends up going to the call and that's all it was there was no arrest there was no nothing and it was almost like an assist general public kind of call. And I'm like, oh, okay. That's stuck in my head. You don't arrest.

You're not going to arrest. Clint, if you get that call, you're not going to arrest. And yeah, I go to the guard room to get my gear. And the lady is there and she's like, do you have khakis? And I'm like, no, I don't have khakis. Why would I? I'm wearing a uniform. why would I have khakis on?

This is what I'm thinking in my head. Cackies. I'm like, no, sorry, ma'am. I don't have cackies. And she goes, Cackies. And I'm like, are you saying carkeys? Yeah, cackies.

I'll never forget it. I'll never forget it was so stupid. It went something like that. Anyway, she gives me the gear. And I hop in, with, I hop in with this lady, okay? She's like a helper. She's a cop.

But I guess they bring other cops in. They're not your instructors. They bring other cops in to do these final detachments. And she was hot as, oh, God, she was, sorry, I did that, but she was hot. And I'm driving around. We're driving, that's what you do. That's what I did. I drove around in Depot.

and I'm waiting for the call to come in over the radio. I'm going to do my checks, right? And the call comes in. And it is the refuse to leave call. And my partner is Pittman, okay? That's my partner. He was in my troop. And we're driving around and I'm, you know, get a 27, 28.

I'm doing all the checks. I'm kind of, I feel like I was kind of flirting with the instructor in a way. She loved me. You know what? That's a good point. Get to know. Humanize yourself with your instructor that's going to test you. That's what saved me.

And I could tell. Like we had a good, we had a good rapport, and I'm calm, I'm taking it easy. I already know what I'm going to. And the call is, we've got to refuse to leave at such and such street address. I do those 27, 28 and whatever. I don't even remember what that means. And again, do purse check on the address. So I go to the house, me and my partner, the instructor.

And we go inside. We meet with the complainant. And the complainant says to me, I want her out. I already know this. I already know you want her out. Because I've been listening all morning. And she told me she was going to beat me up. I'm like, oh, yeah, okay.

So what do you want? want her out. I'm like, yeah, no problem. Okay. So I go upstairs with my partner and there's, I'm like Margaret, she's sitting on a bed. Sitting on a bed. I open up the door. Margaret, you need to, you need to leave. Well, okay, yeah, no problem. Margaret gets up. We walk down the stairs. Pittman. Looks at, I turn, I turn around to Pittman and he goes like this. I'm like, what the hell are you saying? He's like, he's saying uttering threat. He's saying, But how am I supposed to? He's going, I don't know what the hell.

What? That didn't even make sense. I can't even, I can't even correspond to what he's, I'm trying. And he said it about four times, but without saying it. You cannot lip read. I'm telling you right now, you cannot lip read. It's impossible. I'm like, I'm doing something wrong.

Pittman's telling me that I'm doing something wrong. boy now I'm stressed I'm like okay what am I doing wrong what am I doing wrong I'm doing something wrong I'm about a letter go I'm about to fail I know I'm about to fail but I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong we go to the bottom of the steps and I'm like I hesitate because I'm trying to figure it out in my head I'm trying but I can't I'm like see you margaret and I know Margaret walks out the door and I'm like I think I'm in trouble here she's walking down the street of depot, down depot. The complainant comes up to me and I said, hey, you happy? And the complainer said, that's all you're going to do? And I'm like, what do you mean? What do you

mean? That's all I'm going to do. You're just going to let her go? And I'm like, why wouldn't I? Shouldn't I? That's what I'm thinking. And I'm like, okay, complainant, what exactly did she say to you, she threatened that she was going to beat me up. And I'm like, oh my God, that's a threat, I think. I already know that Pittman gave me a clue. Like, don't do what you're about to do. The complainant's saying that she was threatened, but in my head, that's not a threat because I always thought that that wasn't a threat going through

Depon. Stupid, I know. Dumb! So I took a guess. I guessed. And I opened up the door and I yell, Margaret, she's 100 miles away. She's almost rounding the corner.

And she turns around, yeah. And I said, come back here for a second. She walks all the way back and I am just a mess. I'm like, put, you're under arrest for uttering threats. Guessing. Guessing. You're under arrest for a threat. ruddering threats, put your arms like an airplane. And the instructor goes, looks at me and goes,

okay, Clint. Yeah, forget about all that stuff. Okay, arms behind the back. Just put her in the patrol car. So we put her, we put her in the patrol car and I'm just like, ah, ha, ha, ha. And she, the instructor actually said, okay, calm down, calm down. Okay, it's okay, calm down. I'm like, okay, yeah, yeah, that's good. And I throw in the patrol car and we drive back to cells, the fake cells that they have at the RCMP training. And a processor, I can't even remember, she gets out. And then the instructor comes after. I wait about 15 minutes in a room by myself.

And I'm like, I'm done. I'm done. Yeah, if I fail this, I could redo it. But I know if I redo it, I'm going to be worse. I'm just rattled. I'm completely rattled. if you make me redo this scenario again, because I got one more chance to do it,

I feel like I'm not going to pass it. And I've been unbelievable at Deppo. Haven't failed a thing at Deppo. Insanely unreal at Depple. So she comes in and she goes, in order for you to pass, Clint, because she wanted me to pass. everything that you you're about to say it better be right and she starts okay what do you do what do you what do you do when you get back to cells and i'm like you process them and she's like with the matron

and she didn't say matron but she didn't say see this is the thing that screwed me up i always thought it was a guard but she used different terminology it's not a matron it's a something else starts with an M, I think. And I'm like, what the hell are you talking about? So I got off to a shaky start. But the end of the day, she says to me, I'm passing you. Because I know it's no good. It's no good for me to fail you. I already know you know your stuff. And it would be, it would make no sense for me to fail you. And my word is spinal. She said that. And I wish I remembered her name because I respected her so much for helping me out that day because she could have easily failed me. But her word saying, my, no, she was telling me, I don't care if somebody comes down the line

and says, no, you got to fail them. My word is my word. And they can't, they can't take that away from you or me. And I was like, whoa, what's your number? God, what's your name? Thank you. so much you saved my life and we go back into B2 whatever the hell it was we had 32 beds up there and Pittman was like I walked back with Pittman

didn't say it worked to me about anything and then when we get to our troop he's like oh I can't believe he passed like just blew me out of the water made me look like an idiot thanks Pittman actually you know what Pitman you saved me

you saved me even though we didn't get along you saved me the whole end was shaky for me except for the even the written exam you know I didn't get a superior the panels

that's another story but my heart goes out to people that fail that and then they have to go home and when this kid told me the other night while I was sitting in the hot tub that, you know what he told me? Clint, I'm driving around right now. I'm a cop. And I'm like, that's awesome because his story broke my heart.

Because that's, that really is a nightmare. Making that far at police academy and then having to, having to go home. And, you know, giving up your jersey, he had it all. He had all the gear. that would be a nightmare for me and yeah guys if you're at police academy don't listen to the radio

do not listen to this do not listen to the scenarios it will screw you up like it screwed me up partly anyways got to go upstairs and me and the girlfriend

we're going to decorate the Christmas tree It's like what was it November 20th, 21. Thanks for watching. Don't desubscribe. Please subscribe. And yeah. Bye-bye.

Do I have to do that one over? That was awful.