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The following is a portion of an email that was recently received regarding some training that was offered by the SCLEOA. This is a perfect example of the high quality of our training and how useful it can be. If you have a story similar to this one, please feel free to share it with us. We love to share stories of how SCLEOA has made a difference in your life. 

Scottie,

I thought you might like to hear about this.  We had a suicidal subject go barricaded in a shop behind his house.  The shop was used for welding and body work on race cars so he had made himself a formidable position behind some steel equipment and he was armed with a 12 gauge shotgun and a hunting rifle.  He made numerous threats that we were going to have to kill him.  I talked to him on the phone for about 45 minutes but he hung up and then called his father who was also at the scene.  I tried to make the best of it and coach his father as an unintended TPI but he refused to listen to my instructions and got his son pretty upset.  Our subject was unhappy over what he thought was an excessive use of force when he was arrested earlier in the day (he had made bond in less than an hour).  The subject had somewhat of a rapport with one of our Captains who was at the scene.  I hated to put a higher ranking person on the phone but I took my chances and told his father to tell him that if he wanted to talk to someone about his mistreatment he could talk to this Captain.  At that point, he was talking verbal will and last goodbyes so I was getting desperate to distract him and redirect his focus. 

This seemed to satisfy him and the Captain accepted my coaching much better than the father had.  In any event, we were able to convince the guy to surrender.  Here’s where you come in.  The Captain was one who had attended your class with us in Rock Hill.  After it was over with, the first thing he said was that he was sure glad he been in that class so that he at least had an idea what I was trying to do. 

Thanks again. 

Deputy Eric D. Brown
Professional Standards
Lancaster County Sheriff's Office