Episode 916: Stepping Up To The Plate with Will Armstrong

Street Cop Podcast

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4.9 • 967 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

On today's episode, Dennis is joined by 25 year old Chief of Police in Brookford, NC, Will Armstrong.

Armstrong has worked in law enforcement since July of 2019, he said. He started his career at the Statesville Police Department then went to work at the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office.

Will Armstrong is now the Chief of Police for the Brookford Police Department in Brookford, NC. Armstrong was hired as the Chief of Police in January 2023 after working with the department part-time for several years. He has a degree in Criminal Justice and has also worked as an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT).

He has many goals for the Brookford Police Department. Primarily he wants to improve coverage and availability, but he also wants to involve his department in community engagement.

He says that as a young police chief, he faces a lot of age discrimination. He focuses on doing his job as perfectly as possible. Today, Dennis and Will discuss his journey to becoming the Chief of Police at the young age of 24, working for Small departments vs large departments, the media on policing, building trust and camaraderie among older officers, overcoming adversity growing up with drug addicted parents and stepping up to he plate when the opportunity arrises to accomplish your goals in life. Follow Will here: ⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/people/Chief-Will-Armstrong-BPD/100090834332868/?paipv=0&eav=AfaJqTBmMFPEQ_6xZ1siyoQ2ZlvbF9i0IpPyc9KOtjJQX81AqYyr85QuO4LJXRIhzUk&_rdr

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0:00.0	first started my career in law enforcement.
0:01.6	You know, some of the, you know,
0:02.8	the supervise would be like, man,
0:04.3	how hell did you know that's where they hide that?
0:05.7	That's where they put this ad.
0:06.7	That's where they do this.
0:07.7	And it's because, man, I grew up in the criminal element,
0:10.0	seeing it my entire life, you know. Like I said, at five years old, I knew what meth looked like, I knew what
0:15.4	crack looked like, I knew what these things did, I knew how you smoked it, how you ingested, what the side effects were, how people look. And so you can't teach those things that's either you know some people
0:24.3	would be like man you know when you turn they go to the aspect man when you you know
0:29.1	when I was in law enforcement like you ain't got a two years experience at the time.
0:32.9	And it's like, yeah, but dude, you just learned what a crack rock was or what
0:36.4	marijuana smells like when you went through basic law enforcement training.
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