Episode 908: Pro-Active Patrolling From the Skies with Jon Gray & Matt Szluka
Street Cop Podcast
Street Cop Training
4.9 • 967 Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode, Dennis speaks with RET police helicopter pilot and host of The Hangar Z Podcast, Jon Gray and State Trooper & Fixed-Wing Aircraft Pilot, Matt Szluka
Jon's bio:
Hangar Z podcast founder and host, Jon Gray, is a Southern California native and second-generation police officer. Jon’s interest in public safety aviation began in childhood where he was exposed to tactical flight via the Anaheim Police Department’s Angel program. His father, a 32-year veteran of the Anaheim Police Department, encouraged this interest, and it eventually led him to pursue a career in public safety aviation. He is currently a helicopter pilot with the Ontario Police Department in Ontario, California.
After graduating college with a bachelor's degree in Sociology, Jon was hired by San Diego PD as a police officer. At San Diego PD Jon was assigned to Southern Division Patrol and the Border Crime Suppression Team. He later transferred to the Ontario Police Department where he worked patrol, was assigned to the Community Oriented Policing Unit as a graffiti and gang investigator, and served collaterally as a hostage negotiator. After nine years in the field, Jon was selected to become a part-time tactical flight officer in the air support unit. He was then selected to become a full-time tactical flight officer and was ultimately promoted to pilot in 2017. Jon medically retired in May 2023. During his hour plus commute to work Jon would listen to podcasts to pass the time. It wasn’t long before he noticed a void in the podcast segment that represented and promoted public safety aviation. To fill that void, Jon started the Hangar Z Podcast in August of 2020.
Today, Dennis, Jon and Matt discuss continual effort to learn and progress in the field, passion for proactivity and interdiction, importance of aviation policing, night vision, infrared and LPR technology, employing aviation in modern day policing, things to consider when Developing an aviation unit and how drones have impacted law enforcement surveillance.
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| 0:00.0 | What's going on on the Street Cop fam? I'm Frankie Rodriguez. I am the |
| 0:03.0 | podcast producer for the Street Cop podcast. Unfortunately on this |
| 0:06.0 | episode you'll notice that our audio and our end we had some technical |
| 0:09.3 | difficulties it doesn't sound the best. However after discussing discussing with Dennis, we wouldn't want to keep this |
| 0:14.4 | episode from you guys. It's a really impactful episode with a lot of great information and |
| 0:18.8 | nuggets and an important message. So thank you guys all for your continued support and again our apologies for the |
| 0:25.9 | technical difficulties we hope you enjoy the episode and thank you for your |
| 0:29.2 | support I know there's this misnomer when you start looking at Instagram and Facebook that policing is dead in Chicago. |
| 0:35.9 | It's the complete opposite from my personal experience. |
| 0:38.6 | We're out there every single night getting in vehicle pursuits, getting armed defenders, carjacking, shootings, |
| 0:45.2 | homicides, stolen vehicles, all the stuff off the street. |
| 0:48.1 | And the big thing that we're doing is utilizing |
| 0:49.9 | like the LPR technology to locate these vehicles that have been identified in serious felony crimes and then using the aircraft to track it. You're training to be a street cop. |
| 1:08.0 | You training to be a street cop? Hey guys, welcome this episode of the street cop |
| 1:10.0 | training podcast, Meals, founder and CEO of Shriacop Training, my name is |
| 1:12.9 | Dennis Bino and I have a close today. |
| 1:14.8 | Matt Zalka who's a longtime friend of mine and John Gray who I just met five |
| 1:22.0 | minutes ago and his sister is not Sasha. We've established that. |
| 1:26.0 | No relation and neither of them have claimed to see that person |
| 1:31.0 | in the put mores of their duties ever. |
| 1:34.0 | But they are from the Hanger Podcast. |
| 1:37.0 | Hangar Z Podcast. |
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