Hi Paul. Hi Ardly. How are you doing? I'm doing great. How are you? I'm so good. It's so great to have you on Small Town Dicks. Oh I am so happy to be here. So we want to know how did we persuade you to join us here on Small Town Dicks. Oh it was it was a lot of arm twisting. Not the truth.

Well what has always impressed me about Small Town Dicks is the professionalism. First you have your authenticity. You know Dan and Dave, myself we come out of real crime. We've had real experiences. And so the audience, the listeners are getting from Small Town Dicks. What actually happens out there. Not something that's been glamorized. But also you guys don't exploit the cases. You're empathetic to the victims. And this is what I'm all about. And I know that people who know me from

other projects, they will truly see that when they start listening to Small Town Dicks. That's an incredible endorsement. Dan and Dave tell the fine people about some Patreon. Where Paul Holes also joins us on quite a few nuggety nuggets. For just five bucks a month you'll have access to an assortment of bonus episodes, outtakes, listener questions, special series.

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Hey Small Town Fam how are you? Well we have something very special for you today. We're starting a new mini series over on our Patreon.

We've been kicking this idea around since our behind the badge series. And we think you'll find the briefing room conversations to be topical, informal and informative. So today we're excited to share the inaugural episode with all our listeners. Then if you like what you hear, please join us over on Patreon for more installments in the coming weeks.

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And we post on Patreon is ad free. Thank you so much for joining us today. Now please settle in for the briefing room episode one online safety.

Welcome to the briefing room.

Every day in police stations across the world law enforcement officers begin their shift with briefing. Briefings are essential to communication and allow officers and command staff to discuss calls for service, crime trends, case law, wanted subjects, training opportunities and policy changes.

Briefing rooms provide a setting where the team can speak with each other candidly and openly. We wanted to create a similar setting for our listeners. The briefing room series will include intimate and formal conversations about training issues, viral videos, guidance and training from detectives, as well as commentary on other topics impacting law enforcement and the true crime community. So welcome to the briefing room.

Hey Smoltan Super Fam. How's it going? I hope all is well in your corner of the world. I am excited because today we have our first episode of a new series we're calling the briefing room. I have with me detective Dan.

Good afternoon.

I should forget where you were. I had to look at my watch. Good afternoon. And I have the detective Dave. Happy to be here. Happy to have you. Always, always, always enjoyable. It is always enjoyable.

So Dave, you have a very special episode for us today. Take it away.

I do. It's kind of like a public service announcement due to my past case load involving child abuse, sexual assault. There's some overlap with those cases in which we have children who are exposed to dangerous people on the internet and social media apps.

So it became fairly apparent that we needed to have some sort of outreach to schools, students and parents about online safety about being aware of online activity.

Detective Jeff, my former partner, Detective Matt and I would do presentations throughout the year at different events, parenting events, school events. We've done school assemblies. We've also been in a more intimate setting where we are just speaking to health classes in high schools.

And we have a very positive feedback to these presentations from both students and parents. Students, parents and faculty. I imagine thinking about my high school days if a detective or a police officer or a firefighter or an attorney, or they to come into my classroom and give a presentation on their subject matter. I would have been engaged.

I think the opportunities you never know how us boomers are going to come across to high school aged folks. You're a little young to be a boomer by the way. I crest the very last year of boomerness. Don't consider myself a boomer actually.

I don't consider you one either. You're eight years old on TV. So giving these presentations extremely important from the outreach perspective and from prevention. In this instance, I tailored this presentation to be focused towards parents and then being aware of what's out there.

Both the good and the bad when it comes to smartphones, online safety, that type of thing. So did you find they were often surprised? Always. Really. Very surprised. I think some parents have their finger on the pulse of their child's activities both at home and when they're away and outside of their parents supervision.

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