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Things Police See: Firsthand Accounts

Gil Reyes - Stories From The California Highway Patrol

Things Police See: Firsthand Accounts

Steven D Gould

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.91.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Steve interviews retired CHP Officer Gilbert Reyes. Gil saw a lot in his career while patrolling the highways of California and supporting local law enforcement agencies.  We have a great chat about sleep over police academy, wrestling giants, the LA riots, and brutal car crashes.  

Contact the show at - thingspolicesee@gmail.com

 

 

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Things Police See.

0:03.7

First-Hounts.

0:05.0

With your host, Steve Gold.

0:10.0

Hey guys, welcome to the podcast.

0:12.0

Before this episode starts, I just want to take a minute to thank you guys.

0:15.5

All the loyal listeners to the podcast, the podcast is steadily growing.

0:19.8

I checked out the

0:23.0

podcast host and it says that the podcast has been heard in 34

0:27.0

different countries around the world

0:29.0

and 46 of the 50 states are downloading the podcast on a regular basis.

0:36.0

So it's really awesome. It's more than I could have hoped for.

0:39.0

I'm really excited. So I thank you for that.

0:41.0

It's truly appreciated.

0:42.0

In this interview, I sit down for that. It's truly appreciated. In this interview I sit down with

0:44.2

retired California Highway Patrolman, Gilbert Reyes. It's a really fun

0:48.9

interview. He saw a ton of stuff as a highway patrolman as you can imagine. I think you're really going to enjoy it. So without further ado, episode number nine.

0:58.0

Gill, thank you for coming on the podcast man. My pleasure Steve, how you doing? Very, very good. So, Gill, you were a CHP officer, California Highway Patrol, which is California's state police, correct? That's correct, yes.

1:13.6

So I have a question for you before we get started

1:15.7

that I've always been curious about,

1:17.3

and you're just the man to answer it.

1:19.2

So I'm from Massachusetts originally,

1:20.6

and they just have a state police department and the state police

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