Albuquerque
Police Department
In December
of 2003, I retired from the Albuquerque Police Department.
In May of 2004, I returned to work for the Police Department
and was assigned to the traffic division. Lt. Henz contacted
me about the TraCS program and asked me if I would be interested
in learning more about it. In June of 2004, I started going
to the STRCC meetings in Santa Fe where I met most of the
people that are still involved in the TraCS program to this
day. It has been a terrific learning experience for me and
I have enjoyed watching the TraCS program evolve from the
vague concept it started out as, all the way to the finished
product we now have.
It was not any easy road. We had to overcome
many obstacles from equipment and installation problems to
the general apathy of the officers involved. It took a long
time for the officers to accept the TraCS program and for
them to believe that it would really work. While it was not
easy, hard work and perseverance finally paid off and I can
honestly say that the officers who are using TraCS have become
so dependent on it that where once they complained about having
TraCS they now complain when the TraCS program is not available
to them.
I look
forward to rolling out TraCS for the entire Albuquerque Police
Department. I firmly believe in the program and the rewards
it offers to each and every officer that uses it.
Officer
Keith Bergsten
Albuquerque Police Department |
