What has been your favorite part about your job? Is there anything that
stands out about the time that you’ve been at Hollins?
Yeah. Of course I’ve always been, and this probably goes back to my early childhood, I’ve always been a protector type person. I’ve always worked in that type of a field, whether it’s in the military or in law enforcement, so to me, I get a lot of job satisfaction out of knowing that I’m really doing something that’s making a difference. You know, providing protection out here. That probably is my greatest, I don’t know how to say it, (pause, searching for words), my greatest job satisfaction that keeps me doing it all the time, you know. And being the chief of the department now, I have latitude to decide how I can incorporate some of my past experience and training into Hollins and make it a better place, and that gives me the greatest pleasure in being able to be the chief of the department. I’ve got, all together, 11 people underneath me and they all look up to me. It’s a good feeling, you know, knowing that the people that I have working now actually like to come to work here. There was a time when everybody was kind of… wasn’t sure, you know, what was gonna happen from day to day. But everybody knows who I am, the type of person I am. They know my tolerance level and everybody enjoys each other. And I get, that’s my greatest job satisfaction now because I’m not out there beating the streets no more. I’ve always enjoyed street patrol. I mean, 3 to 11 was great for me out here, because I got to do most of the stuff that goes on. Of course it’s not like Texas and it’s not like Philadelphia and it’s not like Delaware County, but there comes a point in your life when you don’t want to do all that anymore. You lose friends and things like that happen and you just want to teach and instruct what you’ve learned and I’m at the point now where that’s what I enjoy most rather than hitting the streets and writing tickets and all that. I enjoy coming to work every morning and knowing that I’m gonna have an influence or an impact on my officers and my dispatchers. (Pause.) Good or bad. (Laughs.)