August 5, 2024 • 15 mins
Scotty and Hannah talk to Victoria Ruvio and Ian Stanick about the upcoming Night Out.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Carolina Cares. It's Scottie Blaisdell. It's Hannah Tyler,
and today I hope we've been following all the laws
because we have a police officer.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I am really hoping that at the end of this
interview we get a literal like get out of jail.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Freak always Oh, can we ask that's what this works?
Speaker 1 (00:14):
I think, Well, we have the high Point Police Department
represented a couple of different ways. We have Victoria Ruvio,
the police communications specialist for the area, and also Ian
Stanik and he's a police lieutenant here with the high
Point Police Department, which is where our studios are. Now.
First of all, welcome to the show.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Thank you, We appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
All right, now, let's get right into what you're here for.
It's all about something called night Out.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
National Night Out, So National night Out is it's a
nationwide event where basically you can get interactions with your
local police officers on a positive note, officers not getting
called out there for a negative event. It's all positive.
But these are organized by the different community and neighborhood
watches and churches within the city. And then we show
(01:04):
up us in the fire department some other first responders.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Yeah, it's not those where you meet them with their
lights blaring behind you, right, yes, right, which is a
little bit intimidating.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
I had no National Nightout has been happening for years now.
It seems to not be like a new thing. I
am just curious. So do you feel now more than
ever it's so important to get those positive interactions with
police officers and citizens.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Yeah, I definitely do. I think we all know a
couple of years ago police we're not the most popular
group of people in here. I think we're definitely bouncing
back from that. You know, we have twenty groups in
the city at high Point this year, so we're up
seven from last year we only had thirteen. But we're
definitely we have a great relationship in high Point with
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our community, the police and the community do. So events
like this are great. We're really looking forward to it.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Well, let's talk to Victoria as well, maybe some of
the specific areas where these are going on and what
the events are like this year.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
First of all, welcome, thank you for having us.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
Yes, we have twenty different events spread across the city, churches,
recreation centers, different neighborhood organizations. You can actually find the
full list on the High Point Police Department's Facebook page.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
We'll list those out with.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
The different times, and every event is a little different.
People like to put their own spin on this. We
have a couple of places that are doing school supply giveaways.
We have one the museum that is showing a movie,
and then a lot of people will have food, games,
activities and things like that. And what can someone expect
if they go out to one of the places. I
think a lot of fun. One thing that's really cool
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about my job is I get to work with police
officers every day, and they're really funny and they're very enjoyable,
and I know a lot of people don't always get
to see that side of them. So I would encourage
people to come out, come hungry, all of them, have food,
and just meet some of the officers, get to know them.
They're so similar to us. They have families, they have hobbies,
they like to talk about sports. So just come with
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an open mind and just come and meet them and
thank them for what they do every day and maybe
ask them to tell you a joke.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Can I turn the siren on when I'm there?
Speaker 5 (03:03):
I would say yes.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Okay, now these are these events are actually being organized
by folks in the community. This is not something the
police set up, but the community said, hey, we're going
to do this thing. Can you come be a part
of it? Give us maybe an example of an event. Well,
we'll ask the lieutenant here that you've gone to in
the past and what it was like when you when
you got there, what was the vibe?
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Sure, so I'll talk about one we had last year
as a brand new one. They'd never done this before.
They called us on the before the National Night Out
was taking place, and they said, hey, what do we do?
How do we do this? We kind of helped them
set it up, give them some suggestions. They ended up
it was a town home complex here in the city. They,
like I said, they had never done it before. So
they ended up having pizza and just some drinks, some
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sodas and water. And it was really great for us
to get out there and meet that community because we
had never been out there before. But you know, we
had a couple of people say, I had no idea
who half these people were, So it was great for
us to get out there and meet them, but took
us out of the picture. They were getting interact with
their own neighborhood, something I guess they had never done before.
So it's great for them too. They can meet their
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own community members as well as the police and fire department.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
I love the bonding.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
It seems like the community of High Point is such
just that a community, and everyone's there to help one
another and just lift everyone up.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
And it's right.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
It's definitely awesome.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
We had a great route. We still have a great
relationship with a group called Beyond Sports, and you know
those folks probably by now. One of the things that
they talked about doing was giving sports equipment to police
officers to have in their vehicles so that when you
have these interactions, say you see some kids playing basketball
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next to the road or whatever, you could pull over
have a positive interaction as well. How valuable is that
kind of interaction.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
It's we are very familiar with them. They they have
donated to us and I know some other law enforcement agencies,
but no interactions like that are We have had some
of those where Victorious posted some that we've seen, but
we've also had, you know, some interactions like that where
the officers aren't going out just to do that to
brag or to show, you know, anything other than just
interacting with people, and we'll have citizens who snap pictures
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of that and posted on social media and it spreads.
It's awesome, but no positive positive interactions like that are great.
We enjoy it just as much as hopefully the people
that we're dealing with are.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Do you feel like things have maybe swung back to
a positive direction as far as the perception of the
police and the average citizen.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
I definitely think they have. I mean, just looking at
we have seven more neighborhoods, seven more communities this year
from last year. I think that speaks volumes on a
self twenty across the city of high Point just in
a year coming up seven. So I think definitely we
are having more positive interactions. I think so.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
And I am curious of the locations you have. What
kind of organizations are there. I know you mentioned townhomes, but.
Speaker 6 (05:55):
Are they churches? Are they local businesses?
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Most of them are just community neighborhoods. There are a
couple of churches, maybe three or four, but most of
them are just neighborhoods. The museum does one too, They're
a unique one on Lexington. They'll they'll play a movie
and have popcorn. So that's a unique one, but most
of them are just neighborhoods.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Oh cool, Now, did you grow up here?
Speaker 4 (06:16):
I did grow up in high Point?
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Yeah, okay. And what made you decide the police department
is where you wanted to be?
Speaker 4 (06:22):
That's something I've always wanted to do one hundred percent.
I worked at the YMCA for ten years before coming
here as a teenager. And you talk about community interaction,
that one hundred percent was great for me. I still
see people out and about now that I dealt with
or you know, met at the YMCA fifteen sixteen years ago.
So that was a great experience for me. I think
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part of that kept me in high Point. Getting married
kept me in high Point two. I always wanted to
end up at the beach.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
But.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Here I am.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
By the way, we're talking with folks from the high
Point Police Department, Victoria and tenant Ian Stanek is here.
When you told your parents I want to be a
police officer, were they yeah, do it?
Speaker 4 (07:08):
There's worry there. I mean you can tell that. I
don't think anybody's excited to it's either loved one or
family member go out at eight o'clock at night and
go work night shift or anything like that. But you
can tell there's concern there. I mean I was never
held back or anything like that from wanting to do
this job.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
I do have a question.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Okay, you can turn this air and on.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
That's fine, Yes, I'll allow that.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
I have to imagine you have some really good stories.
You get home and you tell your wife and you're like,
you're never gonna guess what I pulled over today?
Speaker 6 (07:37):
Can you share any of them on the radio? H
he just like crazy. There's been a lot.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
I've done this for fifteen years. Obviously, night shift is
the busier of the shifts. I mean there's been a lot.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
There's been a lot.
Speaker 6 (07:48):
I don't off air. Yeah, we'll talk later, that's right.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
It's funny. Side note. I remember getting pulled over one
time then not here, and they told me I had
done something illegal. I didn't even realize was illegal. I
was waiting. I saw a lot of people waiting at
a light. I cut across a gas station and out
of the parking lot and onto the road.
Speaker 6 (08:11):
Illegal.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
That is called cutting corners. Apparently at least it was
where I was. Do you see people break laws and
genuinely not know they've broken the lawn.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
Yeah that well, yeah, that happens.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Uh. You know, ninety nine percent of the time you
might hear an excuse here or there. But I think
there is some people who genuinely don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
So yes, and what's the secret to getting is just
being really sorry enough to get just a warning?
Speaker 4 (08:38):
It one hundred percent depends. I mean, it just depends
on the situation. I always take an account, you know,
if I pull somebody over, I always taking account their history.
You know, if it's a if it's a habitual speeder,
probably not going to get a warning. But I always
take history into account. Attitude does make a difference sometimes.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
Why couldn't you have ever pulled me over?
Speaker 2 (08:56):
It was always like, let me throw the book at you,
young lady.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
You will you need to be taught a lesson, right Anna,
All right, well, all right, we'll take you off the
hot seat, Victoria. As we look forward to this year's events,
when do they start and are they free?
Speaker 5 (09:15):
Generally, yes, every event is free, and the time kind
of depends.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
They're more evening.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
I think we have a couple that start around four
thirty and one goes as late as I think ten thirty.
But I would say the sweet spot for most of
them is about.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Six to eight, okay, And again, the complete list of
where they'll be and what's involved in those events are
on your social media. So that's something that has become
a part of I guess connecting with the community as well.
You have to actually use the social media that seems
to have grown quite a bit more recently. Do you
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find that useful as well in this area where you're
trying to make people less intimidated by the police.
Speaker 6 (09:54):
Absolutely.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
Social media has allowed us to let people know about
things that they're not going to see every day. We
put a lot of different news releases on there that
maybe sometimes you'll see in the newspaper on TV, but
people can come there and see the different crime fighting efforts.
They can always see our community engagement efforts and just
little things that officers are doing every single day that
make a huge difference that just the average person isn't
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going to know. And I think what is incredible is
I get to see running our social media, the positive
interactions we have on there. We can post something about
and arrest, we could post something about officers going to
visit a school and we're going to have so many
people going on there saying thank you, we appreciate you,
we support you. And sometimes even the people who go
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on and have negative things to say, other communities will
members will come on and respond and support us and
kind of back us up. So it is even from
the social media side, it's incredible to see the support
of the people of High Point.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
You were saying things that police officers do in the
day to day that maybe we don't see. Can you
provide some examples of that.
Speaker 6 (10:55):
Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
We had something a couple of months ago where a
dog is running loose in the street and a patrol
officer saw it and he stopped and pulled over, rolled
down his window, let the dog cool down in there,
and helped find the owner. It's not a criminal thing,
but that's someone's pet and he was able to reunite
them and we were able to snap a picture.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
And so that was just people seeing that officers do care.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
That's again, that's not a crime, but it's still a
community service that he was able to provide for that day.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
So, Lieutenant Tannek, as you get up in the morning
here in our community, a slip on the uniform and
you head out the door, What are you thinking about?
What is your mission that day?
Speaker 4 (11:37):
It just depends on the day. I was thinking about
this a lot today, So it just depends on the day.
My job is the community engagement supervisor, so you know, summertime,
we're doing a lot of stuff with camps and stuff
like that. So just making sure where we need to
be and doing what we can do to continue that
relationship with the community.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
So it's not I've got to give a certain amount
of tickets. I've got to be out there just messing
with people.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
No, And that's that's a common the ticket thing. It's
funny you mentioned that that's a common misconception. People think
we have a quota. There's zero quota. It's just about
to ask that, Yeah, there's no quota. There might be
one for you late. You talked a lot about traffic
violations of but there's no quote. We don't have a quota.
There's there's absolutely nothing like that.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Yeah. Is that?
Speaker 5 (12:24):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (12:25):
I mean, what other misconceptions do folks have about police officers,
because I mean, you're just regular guys and gals with
families living in our community. But for some reason, and
again I'm just throwing this out because I've heard these
things that people have ego or they want to show
that they have power over you. Do you sense that
with the police department.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
No, that's that's not here.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
You know, you see the YouTube videos and Facebook and
all that stuff, and you know there's always more to
a story than a thirty second video clip from whoever.
So No, that's that's definitely not something that occurs here.
I mean, there's bad apples everywhere, but you know, that's
not something that happens here. And I think our relationship
with the community, obviously is I think if you ask
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somebody who deals with us on a regular basis, whether
it's some of our partners or community members, they'll tell
you that's not the case here for sure.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
How's High Point changing. And in the time that you've
been a police.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Office, Well, I think you guys are sitting in it
right here. I mean, this downtown area is definitely grown.
I've lived here since ninety six, so this is what's
happening in this area is awesome.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Yeah, it seems like it, and it seems like the
community is We talked about how it's a all American city,
the food desert that it was that is changing. There's
so much going on with community gardens and things like that.
As you're out interacting with people, do you feel more positivity?
Speaker 4 (13:47):
I do, yeah, and this, like you just said, it's
come a long way. I've been doing this fifteen years.
It's definitely changed. But no, I think there's a lot
of positivity. We have a lot of great partners throughout
the community who are doing a lot. We're trying to
to get up there and do what we can, but
there's other community partners that we have great relationships with
who are other doing great stuff too well.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Victoria, I want to ask you as well. You've been
working with the police department for.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
How long now, about two and a half years, and
what was.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
The thing that has struck you that you've learned about
these individuals that your perception of them has changed.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
My background is a little bit interesting because I actually
came over from news, and when I worked in news,
there were a couple of officers of different agencies that
I would just talk to on a regular basis for work,
and I remember several months in just telling them, oh,
you're normal like me too. And so I think that
for me, just the last few years in news really
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ignited a passion of they're amazing officers out here doing
things every day and their stories need to be told.
And so I feel incredibly privileged in my position to
be able to highlight some of those things and let
people see the people and just the personality that I
get to work with every day.
Speaker 6 (15:01):
Sounds like you guys have quite the organization over there.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
It is a wonderful place.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Well, it's a national event, but we've obviously focused on
high Point. But wherever you are listening to this right now,
I'm sure your local police department is open to any
sort of interaction with the community that can bond and
maybe take some of those I would say misconceptions away.
Our thanks again to the hy Point Police Department, not
only for what you do on the streets around us,
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but also for taking time to spend some time with
us today. That is Lieutenant Ian Stannik and Victoria Ruvio
from the high Point Police Department. Thanks for being here
for Carolina Cares.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Yeah, thank you guys so much for having us
Welcome to Carolina Cares. It's Scottie Blaisdell. It's Hannah Tyler,
and today I hope we've been following all the laws
because we have a police officer.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I am really hoping that at the end of this
interview we get a literal like get out of jail.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Freak always Oh, can we ask that's what this works?
Speaker 1 (00:14):
I think, Well, we have the high Point Police Department
represented a couple of different ways. We have Victoria Ruvio,
the police communications specialist for the area, and also Ian
Stanik and he's a police lieutenant here with the high
Point Police Department, which is where our studios are. Now.
First of all, welcome to the show.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Thank you, We appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
All right, now, let's get right into what you're here for.
It's all about something called night Out.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
National Night Out, So National night Out is it's a
nationwide event where basically you can get interactions with your
local police officers on a positive note, officers not getting
called out there for a negative event. It's all positive.
But these are organized by the different community and neighborhood
watches and churches within the city. And then we show
(01:04):
up us in the fire department some other first responders.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Yeah, it's not those where you meet them with their
lights blaring behind you, right, yes, right, which is a
little bit intimidating.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
I had no National Nightout has been happening for years now.
It seems to not be like a new thing. I
am just curious. So do you feel now more than
ever it's so important to get those positive interactions with
police officers and citizens.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Yeah, I definitely do. I think we all know a
couple of years ago police we're not the most popular
group of people in here. I think we're definitely bouncing
back from that. You know, we have twenty groups in
the city at high Point this year, so we're up
seven from last year we only had thirteen. But we're
definitely we have a great relationship in high Point with
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our community, the police and the community do. So events
like this are great. We're really looking forward to it.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Well, let's talk to Victoria as well, maybe some of
the specific areas where these are going on and what
the events are like this year.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
First of all, welcome, thank you for having us.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
Yes, we have twenty different events spread across the city, churches,
recreation centers, different neighborhood organizations. You can actually find the
full list on the High Point Police Department's Facebook page.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
We'll list those out with.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
The different times, and every event is a little different.
People like to put their own spin on this. We
have a couple of places that are doing school supply giveaways.
We have one the museum that is showing a movie,
and then a lot of people will have food, games,
activities and things like that. And what can someone expect
if they go out to one of the places. I
think a lot of fun. One thing that's really cool
(02:33):
about my job is I get to work with police
officers every day, and they're really funny and they're very enjoyable,
and I know a lot of people don't always get
to see that side of them. So I would encourage
people to come out, come hungry, all of them, have food,
and just meet some of the officers, get to know them.
They're so similar to us. They have families, they have hobbies,
they like to talk about sports. So just come with
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an open mind and just come and meet them and
thank them for what they do every day and maybe
ask them to tell you a joke.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Can I turn the siren on when I'm there?
Speaker 5 (03:03):
I would say yes.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Okay, now these are these events are actually being organized
by folks in the community. This is not something the
police set up, but the community said, hey, we're going
to do this thing. Can you come be a part
of it? Give us maybe an example of an event. Well,
we'll ask the lieutenant here that you've gone to in
the past and what it was like when you when
you got there, what was the vibe?
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Sure, so I'll talk about one we had last year
as a brand new one. They'd never done this before.
They called us on the before the National Night Out
was taking place, and they said, hey, what do we do?
How do we do this? We kind of helped them
set it up, give them some suggestions. They ended up
it was a town home complex here in the city. They,
like I said, they had never done it before. So
they ended up having pizza and just some drinks, some
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sodas and water. And it was really great for us
to get out there and meet that community because we
had never been out there before. But you know, we
had a couple of people say, I had no idea
who half these people were, So it was great for
us to get out there and meet them, but took
us out of the picture. They were getting interact with
their own neighborhood, something I guess they had never done before.
So it's great for them too. They can meet their
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own community members as well as the police and fire department.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
I love the bonding.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
It seems like the community of High Point is such
just that a community, and everyone's there to help one
another and just lift everyone up.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
And it's right.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
It's definitely awesome.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
We had a great route. We still have a great
relationship with a group called Beyond Sports, and you know
those folks probably by now. One of the things that
they talked about doing was giving sports equipment to police
officers to have in their vehicles so that when you
have these interactions, say you see some kids playing basketball
(04:45):
next to the road or whatever, you could pull over
have a positive interaction as well. How valuable is that
kind of interaction.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
It's we are very familiar with them. They they have
donated to us and I know some other law enforcement agencies,
but no interactions like that are We have had some
of those where Victorious posted some that we've seen, but
we've also had, you know, some interactions like that where
the officers aren't going out just to do that to
brag or to show, you know, anything other than just
interacting with people, and we'll have citizens who snap pictures
(05:14):
of that and posted on social media and it spreads.
It's awesome, but no positive positive interactions like that are great.
We enjoy it just as much as hopefully the people
that we're dealing with are.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Do you feel like things have maybe swung back to
a positive direction as far as the perception of the
police and the average citizen.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
I definitely think they have. I mean, just looking at
we have seven more neighborhoods, seven more communities this year
from last year. I think that speaks volumes on a
self twenty across the city of high Point just in
a year coming up seven. So I think definitely we
are having more positive interactions. I think so.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
And I am curious of the locations you have. What
kind of organizations are there. I know you mentioned townhomes, but.
Speaker 6 (05:55):
Are they churches? Are they local businesses?
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Most of them are just community neighborhoods. There are a
couple of churches, maybe three or four, but most of
them are just neighborhoods. The museum does one too, They're
a unique one on Lexington. They'll they'll play a movie
and have popcorn. So that's a unique one, but most
of them are just neighborhoods.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Oh cool, Now, did you grow up here?
Speaker 4 (06:16):
I did grow up in high Point?
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Yeah, okay. And what made you decide the police department
is where you wanted to be?
Speaker 4 (06:22):
That's something I've always wanted to do one hundred percent.
I worked at the YMCA for ten years before coming
here as a teenager. And you talk about community interaction,
that one hundred percent was great for me. I still
see people out and about now that I dealt with
or you know, met at the YMCA fifteen sixteen years ago.
So that was a great experience for me. I think
(06:45):
part of that kept me in high Point. Getting married
kept me in high Point two. I always wanted to
end up at the beach.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
But.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Here I am.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
By the way, we're talking with folks from the high
Point Police Department, Victoria and tenant Ian Stanek is here.
When you told your parents I want to be a
police officer, were they yeah, do it?
Speaker 4 (07:08):
There's worry there. I mean you can tell that. I
don't think anybody's excited to it's either loved one or
family member go out at eight o'clock at night and
go work night shift or anything like that. But you
can tell there's concern there. I mean I was never
held back or anything like that from wanting to do
this job.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
I do have a question.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Okay, you can turn this air and on.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
That's fine, Yes, I'll allow that.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
I have to imagine you have some really good stories.
You get home and you tell your wife and you're like,
you're never gonna guess what I pulled over today?
Speaker 6 (07:37):
Can you share any of them on the radio? H
he just like crazy. There's been a lot.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
I've done this for fifteen years. Obviously, night shift is
the busier of the shifts. I mean there's been a lot.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
There's been a lot.
Speaker 6 (07:48):
I don't off air. Yeah, we'll talk later, that's right.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
It's funny. Side note. I remember getting pulled over one
time then not here, and they told me I had
done something illegal. I didn't even realize was illegal. I
was waiting. I saw a lot of people waiting at
a light. I cut across a gas station and out
of the parking lot and onto the road.
Speaker 6 (08:11):
Illegal.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
That is called cutting corners. Apparently at least it was
where I was. Do you see people break laws and
genuinely not know they've broken the lawn.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
Yeah that well, yeah, that happens.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Uh. You know, ninety nine percent of the time you
might hear an excuse here or there. But I think
there is some people who genuinely don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
So yes, and what's the secret to getting is just
being really sorry enough to get just a warning?
Speaker 4 (08:38):
It one hundred percent depends. I mean, it just depends
on the situation. I always take an account, you know,
if I pull somebody over, I always taking account their history.
You know, if it's a if it's a habitual speeder,
probably not going to get a warning. But I always
take history into account. Attitude does make a difference sometimes.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
Why couldn't you have ever pulled me over?
Speaker 2 (08:56):
It was always like, let me throw the book at you,
young lady.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
You will you need to be taught a lesson, right Anna,
All right, well, all right, we'll take you off the
hot seat, Victoria. As we look forward to this year's events,
when do they start and are they free?
Speaker 5 (09:15):
Generally, yes, every event is free, and the time kind
of depends.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
They're more evening.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
I think we have a couple that start around four
thirty and one goes as late as I think ten thirty.
But I would say the sweet spot for most of
them is about.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Six to eight, okay, And again, the complete list of
where they'll be and what's involved in those events are
on your social media. So that's something that has become
a part of I guess connecting with the community as well.
You have to actually use the social media that seems
to have grown quite a bit more recently. Do you
(09:48):
find that useful as well in this area where you're
trying to make people less intimidated by the police.
Speaker 6 (09:54):
Absolutely.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
Social media has allowed us to let people know about
things that they're not going to see every day. We
put a lot of different news releases on there that
maybe sometimes you'll see in the newspaper on TV, but
people can come there and see the different crime fighting efforts.
They can always see our community engagement efforts and just
little things that officers are doing every single day that
make a huge difference that just the average person isn't
(10:17):
going to know. And I think what is incredible is
I get to see running our social media, the positive
interactions we have on there. We can post something about
and arrest, we could post something about officers going to
visit a school and we're going to have so many
people going on there saying thank you, we appreciate you,
we support you. And sometimes even the people who go
(10:38):
on and have negative things to say, other communities will
members will come on and respond and support us and
kind of back us up. So it is even from
the social media side, it's incredible to see the support
of the people of High Point.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
You were saying things that police officers do in the
day to day that maybe we don't see. Can you
provide some examples of that.
Speaker 6 (10:55):
Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
We had something a couple of months ago where a
dog is running loose in the street and a patrol
officer saw it and he stopped and pulled over, rolled
down his window, let the dog cool down in there,
and helped find the owner. It's not a criminal thing,
but that's someone's pet and he was able to reunite
them and we were able to snap a picture.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
And so that was just people seeing that officers do care.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
That's again, that's not a crime, but it's still a
community service that he was able to provide for that day.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
So, Lieutenant Tannek, as you get up in the morning
here in our community, a slip on the uniform and
you head out the door, What are you thinking about?
What is your mission that day?
Speaker 4 (11:37):
It just depends on the day. I was thinking about
this a lot today, So it just depends on the day.
My job is the community engagement supervisor, so you know, summertime,
we're doing a lot of stuff with camps and stuff
like that. So just making sure where we need to
be and doing what we can do to continue that
relationship with the community.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
So it's not I've got to give a certain amount
of tickets. I've got to be out there just messing
with people.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
No, And that's that's a common the ticket thing. It's
funny you mentioned that that's a common misconception. People think
we have a quota. There's zero quota. It's just about
to ask that, Yeah, there's no quota. There might be
one for you late. You talked a lot about traffic
violations of but there's no quote. We don't have a quota.
There's there's absolutely nothing like that.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Yeah. Is that?
Speaker 5 (12:24):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (12:25):
I mean, what other misconceptions do folks have about police officers,
because I mean, you're just regular guys and gals with
families living in our community. But for some reason, and
again I'm just throwing this out because I've heard these
things that people have ego or they want to show
that they have power over you. Do you sense that
with the police department.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
No, that's that's not here.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
You know, you see the YouTube videos and Facebook and
all that stuff, and you know there's always more to
a story than a thirty second video clip from whoever.
So No, that's that's definitely not something that occurs here.
I mean, there's bad apples everywhere, but you know, that's
not something that happens here. And I think our relationship
with the community, obviously is I think if you ask
(13:08):
somebody who deals with us on a regular basis, whether
it's some of our partners or community members, they'll tell
you that's not the case here for sure.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
How's High Point changing. And in the time that you've
been a police.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Office, Well, I think you guys are sitting in it
right here. I mean, this downtown area is definitely grown.
I've lived here since ninety six, so this is what's
happening in this area is awesome.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Yeah, it seems like it, and it seems like the
community is We talked about how it's a all American city,
the food desert that it was that is changing. There's
so much going on with community gardens and things like that.
As you're out interacting with people, do you feel more positivity?
Speaker 4 (13:47):
I do, yeah, and this, like you just said, it's
come a long way. I've been doing this fifteen years.
It's definitely changed. But no, I think there's a lot
of positivity. We have a lot of great partners throughout
the community who are doing a lot. We're trying to
to get up there and do what we can, but
there's other community partners that we have great relationships with
who are other doing great stuff too well.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Victoria, I want to ask you as well. You've been
working with the police department for.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
How long now, about two and a half years, and
what was.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
The thing that has struck you that you've learned about
these individuals that your perception of them has changed.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
My background is a little bit interesting because I actually
came over from news, and when I worked in news,
there were a couple of officers of different agencies that
I would just talk to on a regular basis for work,
and I remember several months in just telling them, oh,
you're normal like me too. And so I think that
for me, just the last few years in news really
(14:44):
ignited a passion of they're amazing officers out here doing
things every day and their stories need to be told.
And so I feel incredibly privileged in my position to
be able to highlight some of those things and let
people see the people and just the personality that I
get to work with every day.
Speaker 6 (15:01):
Sounds like you guys have quite the organization over there.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
It is a wonderful place.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Well, it's a national event, but we've obviously focused on
high Point. But wherever you are listening to this right now,
I'm sure your local police department is open to any
sort of interaction with the community that can bond and
maybe take some of those I would say misconceptions away.
Our thanks again to the hy Point Police Department, not
only for what you do on the streets around us,
(15:27):
but also for taking time to spend some time with
us today. That is Lieutenant Ian Stannik and Victoria Ruvio
from the high Point Police Department. Thanks for being here
for Carolina Cares.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Yeah, thank you guys so much for having us
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