Director of Public Safety, City of Oakwood, Ohio (Police Chief & Fire Chief).

 

Have an affinity for history, especially photographs of decaying Americana. Other interests include New England / Boston and trains / railways / subways.

 

Former Chief Deputy - Adams County Sheriff's Office (WI) and Chief of Police, St. Charles, MN.

 

In an ancient life, Police Officer, City of Milwaukee, WI.

 

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Enjoy exploring where one is not supposed to!

 

Email: abebris@yahoo.com

 

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The Oakwood Public Safety Department is very unique in that all officers are qualified in police, firefighting and emergency medical services.

  

Oakwood's Public Safety Department is unique in that law enforcement, fire protection and emergency/rescue services are all performed by the same personnel. This consolidated operation employs thirty full-time officers who have been trained, certified and sworn as peace officers in addition to receiving training and certification as fire fighters and emergency victim care technicians or paramedics. Created in 1924, Oakwood's Safety Department is the second oldest continuing consolidated department in the country.

 

The department operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week with full-time, paid personnel. The department is administered by the Public Safety Director who assumes the duties of both Police and Fire Chief.

 

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ROAD LESS TRAVELED

 

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth

 

Then took the other as just as fair

And having perhaps the better claim

Because it was grassy and wanted wear

Though as for that, the passing there

Had worn them really about the same

 

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet, knowing how way leads onto way

I doubted if I should ever come back

 

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence

Two roads diverged in a wood

And I took the one less traveled by

And that has made all the difference

 

-Robert Frost-