I would say WT help me out really help me
decide what I wanted to do.
In classes, not just classwork. It's not just your usual studying and then tests.
It's real world.
You go on trips,  go see the actual Department usually are outside of the classroom majority of the time.
To get the most that you can out of WT, I believe that
you have to definitely figure out what
really makes you happy I mean where your passion is.
Gives us an opportunity to
change minds and change how people view
the police can grow and being better and
be a better service to our community.
You get to see that criminal justice is not
just a lot of people think it's like
"Oh, cop and punishing people and there's so much more to criminal justice,
you're actually helping people."
In the real life is just real life experience. It's no thinking,
straight react off the moment. And that was like real hands-on stuff. That's really what I like.
We get to do so many great things
we get to help kids we get to help
families in crisis and you get to kind
of make a difference in those kids lives
It was good times. It's good memories and it's a good education
which I appreciate very much.
It is a beautiful thing to be, to have
a college in our community that that we
can partner with.
My internship was crucial, not only to meeting the people that I needed to meet but also and
understanding what it was that I really
wanted to do with the minimal justice scope.
Being here at my internship is
different, get to see bring yourself in
get to see for 240 hours six weeks. It's been fun this is just confirmation.
This is what I want to do.
We've had several interns here who ended up
coming here to work: the student dispatchers and then ultimately ended up going into law enforcement.
So we've had quite a few who end up going in the law enforcement field
and have been very successful.
Internships it was for me at least was vital.
It gave me a really good idea of
what kind of officer I did what to be
what kind of officer did not want to be.
Give me a good experience of different agencies
how different agencies worked within the
community.
My internship was amazing. I had I had a
lot of fun. It was great.
I learned a lot from going on home passes and house
checks, the school checks,
to learning reading the kids files, the
files after files about kids,
and got to the legal side, going to
court
watching court hearings and detention
hearings.
And got to just learn a lot of stuff about that and it was pretty interesting.
That with the catch
they kind of teach you the background of the criminal justice side.
And then, you see firsthand whenever you come on board.
So, it's not you know you learn in the books and then you apply out here.
If we can get them in here and say: "Hey, you know
this is what you talked about in your
community policing class,
this is what we're doing, this is how it works out here, and just having them
you can see the light bulb come on when they're out here and they're doing right along
and experiencing things like training and things like that we give them that exposure.
The graduates from West Texas,  especially in the criminal justice
and emergency management programs are the best of what they do
they really are
