Episode 895: You Can't Control the Nature of the Job with Bridget Truxillo
Street Cop Podcast
Street Cop Training
4.9 • 967 Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode, Dennis speaks with Founder of The Lady Law Shield and Protective Wellness, Bridget Truxillo. Bridget knows the challenges law enforcement officers face, both outside and inside their agencies based on her experiences as a former Deputy Sheriff in Gainesville, Alachua County, Florida.
Bridget started out in Patrol, but very quickly transferred to the Narcotics and Organized Crime Unit (NOCU), and also became the only female member of the SWAT team.
During her time in the NOCU, Bridget routinely conducted undercover buys of narcotics and effectuated many arrest and search warrants as a result of her undercover operations.
While on the SWAT team, Bridget participated in serving search warrants, active shooter and hostage situations, competed twice in SWAT Round-up International (an International SWAT competition), as well as many hundreds of hours of training.
Although being a Deputy Sheriff allowed Bridget to serve the public, Bridget realized she wanted to find a way to serve the law enforcement and first responder community directly so she left law enforcement to attend law school as a means to glean the knowledge and skills necessary for this purpose. After 13+ years practicing law in civil litigation, Bridget was able to curate a unique business dedicated to representing and supporting law enforcement officers and first responders.
Today, Bridget and Dennis discuss tips for woman in law enforcement, importance of departments looking out for their men and women, seeing, validating and hearing your fellow co-workers, not taking things personal, legal advise and not controlling the nature of the job.
Find out more about Bridget & Protective Wellness here: https://www.myprotectivewellness.com/
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| 0:13.0 | So then it bring it back to law enforcement and how are you interacting with people and people are spinning at you people want to fight you you can't control the nature of the job you can't control the crappy supervisor that you have and yet you can still control how you react to it |
| 0:15.5 | what you do about it. |
| 0:16.2 | So that just again, and then if you're a supervisor or lieutenant |
| 0:19.0 | or a major sheriff or chief, whatever, |
| 0:21.5 | you look at it, just don't put labels on it. |
| 0:24.2 | And it's as simple as don't take things personal. |
| 0:27.2 | So if people are like, my client is filing a complaint |
| 0:30.5 | against somebody in your department |
| 0:31.8 | for sexual harassment discrimination, |
| 0:33.7 | don't take it personally, just look at what's happening and is there an opportunity for improvement? |
| 0:39.7 | That's where I like to put the positive poly filter on it. What could you do better? |
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