Police Department Visit a Success: No Youth Left Behind in Cell

Youth and Parents inside the control room. 

 Last Sunday the Youth Group and a few parents visited the Falmouth Police Department to take a tour of facilities and ask questions to the men and women in blue.

We got to see the control room where all the 911 calls are answered and dealt with.  We were told to be quiet in this room since the dispatcher would be taking calls.  Officer Maguire, our tour guide, told us that we were the quietest group he ever had in there!

Officer Maguire shows us a battering ram

We also got to see the detective division and interrogation rooms.  However, it seemed like the youth were doing most of the interrogating.  Thanks to their questions, we learned things like the most outrageous 911 call ever received, what it feels like to be tazed, and how crimes get solved.

no door is safe 

We got to take a quick peak at the holding cells and booking rooms.  Officer Maguire told us that most of the people he has to deal with are not bad people.  They are probably just having a bad day or a string of not-so-good circumstances.  He became a police officer because he wanted to help out his community.  So even though that means arresting people from time to time, he truly wants to help everyone he comes into contact with.  It is nice to know that we are in such good hands.

The tour ended with a look at some of the vehicles the officers get to drive.  You may see these cars parked in our church parking lot from time to time.  This is because most of an officers job is filling out paper work after something happens.  They use our lot from time to time to sit and fill out these forms on their build-in computers.  And we certainly don't mind having an officer around.


We want to say a big thank you to Officer Maguire for giving us a tour and the entire staff of the Falmouth PD for all the great work they do keeping us safe.