Clinton Jaws - Qualities Of A Good Police Leader

Episode Date: March 8, 2021

Former cop, Clinton Jaws, talks about an inspector at Duncan RCMP Detachment, Linton Robinson. Qualities Of A Good Police Leader. I found that good bosses don't have to say much to get their point across. Why cant more bosses in the policing world be like this.? The more important point; Never write an email angry. Do not hit send until the next day. A short clip from an old episode #42 #policeclip #rcmp #policepodcast call my hotline number 604-330-2512 https://www.clintonjaws.com/ https://open.spotify.com/show/3hWntbop6gLEg6RFR0aOzJ https://www.facebook.com/clinton.jaws.7/ https://twitter.com/ClintonJaws

I went to bed at midnight, and I woke up at 430. 0.4.30 hours. Who does that? I notice I don't sleep. Like, I fall asleep, but I can't stay asleep. And I wake up, and I'm thinking in my head, all I could think about is the video that I made yesterday. I made a video yesterday that I didn't post. It took me all day to make it, edited it, all day, and I didn't post it.

I sat on it. I sat on it thinking, should I post this? I came across like a dick, like an angry dick. But I wondered to myself, why? What made me think of my head to sit on it? And I realized it was because of something I learned from an inspector in Duncan. I'm working in Duncan. I don't got a whole lot of years. I thought I was something. else. I'm going to try to make this quick. When I was working in Duncan, we had what was called a computer system called Rhodes. Computer, laptop, in our car, it was Rhodes. Roads was amazing. I don't know example I'm going to give, but let's say you get, I don't know, you get a call of kids on the roof of a school. You show up to that call, they're not there. Okay, they're gone. You go to write up

the file in your car. Literally, all you do everything's already added. You know, Corporal Jaworsky, Constable Jaworsky, whatever, attended the scene, G-O-A, which means gone on arrival. NF-R, C-H, no further action required CH.

Nine seconds to write up that file. Then they came out with Prime, which, in my opinion, helped ruin policing. But we all had to be for Prime. We had to have a good attitude for Prime. that nine second file now turned into 10 minutes. You could no longer do that.

You had to add everything. You had to add the complainant. You had to add the school as an other or a business or whatever. You had to, you know, in 2020, July 1st at 0500 hours, Corporal Jaworski attended this location. Da, da, da, D, Whistler Street. Complaintant put the complainant's name. This is who called. You get my point.

Prime sucks. It does. It sucks, but it's supposed to be better. It's not. It's not better. But we had to go on a course. Everybody had to take this prime course. I can't remember. It was two days, three days, four days. I don't know. And I'm sitting by a guy during the course and he was like a negative Nancy about this prime. Everybody was, but I wasn't saying anything. I was being positive. And he was going on and on the entire time. And I'm like, holy shit, the instructors can. hear you man so prime's over course is over i go back to the detachment in duncan and the inspector comes up to my watch commander and says uh i got a complaint from the instructors that clint wasn't positive about the prime course he was being disruptive and i tell my watch commander that what the fuck that wasn't me that was so-and-so. They got, the instructor got the names mixed up. I know that for a fact. So I sit down, what do I do? I write the inspector in email. And, uh, I'm like, how dare you? How dare you? I said a bunch of things on it that I shouldn't have said. And it was a good half page.

And I'm like, I'm no fool here. Okay. I'm no fool. I know how important this shit is. I was positive. You don't talk to my watch commander like that. And I go home and I print off the email that I already sent immediately to the inspector of the detachment. And I go home and I'm like, I say to the girlfriend, I'm like, look this.

Look at this. Look what I wrote the inspector today. He doesn't talk to me like that. And she looks at it and she goes, oh my God, Clinton, you actually sent this to him? And I'm like, yeah. Well, look what you put at the end here. I'm no fool. I'm no fool? Hey,

Hey, Linton, I'm no fool. And she started talking like I was all of a sudden, I was acting like Mr. T or something. You ain't no fool. I'm no fool. And we have a conversation about it, and I can't sleep that night because I can't believe I sent it.

So I go back to work the next day, hoping I can delete it without him reading it, but he already opened it and he sent me something. It was only a sentence. I can't really remember how he sent it. it how he put it but he basically said i'm going to give you some advice review or sit on it or something like that before you hit send i there's a saying now about it i maybe you can help me out with what that means but or how he said it how he put it but it was it was kind of like measure twice cut

once but with emails sit on the email before you send it and that's all he said that's all he said And a couple days later, I went past his, I went down the hallway, past his door and his door was open. And he's sitting there and I'm like, I'm like, hey, are we good? And he goes, yeah, we're good. One of the, probably the best inspector I had was Linton. Think that's what his name was. He was a good inspector. He didn't have to pull me into the office and berate me.

Just give me some advice. It's great advice. I use that advice. A lot. I wrote a lot of email sat on and never sent them. I remember one day I'm in the parking lot. I'm in a cop car and it's a great after. Great after.

It's about five in the afternoon. It's springtime. I'm excited to start the shift. And I'm coming around the corner in the parking lot, the police parking lot, and I hammer the gas. I do a little wheelie. Fuck, who's coming the other way in the parking lot? Linton.

and all he did was that just that and that's all he had to do that's all he had to do he didn't have to take any extreme measures just the I never did it again bosses that don't even have to say anything with just a look how great is that what's the point of my story why did I start talking about prime and Rhodes. Yes, my video. I sat on my video and I'm glad I didn't post it.