Allen Police: Behind the Badge

Saving Lives: Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Officer Malena

• Allen Police Department • Season 1 • Episode 12

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One story can change how you drive forever. Officer Derek Molina shares the crash that still sits with him today and explains how a seatbelt, a few miles per hour, or a distracted glance can draw the line between a close call and a tragedy. From there, we pull back the curtain on Allen’s traffic unit to show what commercial motor vehicle enforcement actually looks like: real inspections, real mechanical checks, and real out-of-service calls that keep unsafe trucks from becoming 80,000-pound missiles.


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Officer Sam Rippamonti:

Welcome back to another episode of Allen Police: Behind the Badge. We're your host, Officer Sam Rippamonti and Alexus Birmingham.

Community Outreach Communicator Alexus Birmingham:

And today our guest is Officer Derek Malena. Thank you for joining us.

Officer Sam Rippamonti:

Sure. Thanks for coming, Derek. So you're in the traffic unit, right? Yes. Listed at a traffic unit? I'm sure you've seen a lot of how long have you been in that unit?

Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Officer Malena:

I think I'm the longest serving traffic unit member ever, about 15 years. Oh wow.

Officer Sam Rippamonti:

So I'm sure you've seen a lot of a lot of stuff over the years. Sure. Anything that comes to mind that you'd like to tell us?

Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Officer Malena:

Probably the most significant one would be the uh commercial motor vehicle crash that we had southbound at Bethany. Um, you know, it was uh it was a very unfortunate thing where the driver of the commercial motor vehicle had a vehicle pulled out in front of him, and he uh he tried to make an evasive action, lost control of his tractor trailer. He uh swerved over, hit the jersey barrier on the right, and the truck went up over the barrier, come down, and hit on the um side of the cab right behind the driver's door. When it hit behind the driver's door, it damaged the door locking mechanism, which then caused the door to open, and the driver fell out and was unfortunately ran over by his own commercial motor vehicle and succumbed to his entries. And so all of that to say, you know, the biggest thing about traffic is we do traffic safety. You know, had this driver been wearing his seatbelt, he would probably be with us today. You know, so that would probably be my that's probably my most memorable, most horrible, and and you know, um kind of goes back to the the reason why we do what we do in the traffic unit, safety. Where your seatbelt don't speed.

Officer Sam Rippamonti:

We wrote a press release over that tragedy. Um it's just a terrible, terrible event that happened. Uh you know, we've had a few of them this year.

Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Officer Malena:

I mean, can we contribute that to is it speed mostly or uh I I think some of it can be contributed to speed, a lot of it can be contributed to distracted driving. You know, it everyone nowadays has a cell phone. Everyone has that cell phone in their hand all the time. You know, if if we could just emphasize to motorists on the road to put your telephone down when you're driving, drive the speed limit, wear your seatbelt. You know, there's a there's a good probability that you're gonna prevent the crash, or if you do have one and you're doing everything you're supposed to, you're you're gonna be able to survive it.

unknown:

Yeah.

Officer Sam Rippamonti:

You know, we'll be driving at times and my wife will be like, that car in front of us, I think they're I think they're drunk. And then you go to get around them, and nope, they're playing on that phone. Which may be worse. Yeah.

Community Outreach Communicator Alexus Birmingham:

So what do you do for your unit? Like, I know you're a commercial motor vehicle. What does that entail?

Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Officer Malena:

So my title is commercial motor vehicle enforcement. And uh, you know, my my main goal here at the police department is to enforce the motor carri bureau safety regulations. So we work directly underneath the Texas Department of Public Safety, you kind of fall underneath our umbrella. Um so I think everybody is probably familiar with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. You know, it's uh they come out with a set of rules that all the commercial motor vehicles have to abide by. And the state of Texas has adopted a good majority of those federal statutes because they're aimed directly at safety. And once Texas adopted them, they um they created a unit, license of weights originally what was for Texas DPS to enforce these laws. Um then they brought in municipal inspectors like us. Large cities can get certified under Texas DPS to uh enforce these statutes. So, you know, on a daily basis, I I weigh trucks, make sure that they're not overweight. I check the registration, I make sure that they're, you know, they've purchased their permits and that they've paid the proper amount of money to be driving over the roadways because the heavier the truck is, the more damage caused to the roadway. The permit fees that they pay, uh, they go directly into the highway fund so they can repair and maintain our roadways. You know, I I check their commercial motor vehicle, driver's license status, make sure that they're able to actually operate the vehicle that they're driving, check their hours of service, make sure that they're not driving longer than they're supposed to have been, make sure they're not fatigued, make sure they're not ill. And then we get into more of the safety aspect of it for load securement, you know. Um check their brakes, check their tires, just really, really everything that you can think of that's on that vehicle and any paperwork that that driver has to have, any licensing credentials, that's something that we're gonna look out to make sure that uh, you know, these these operators and these motor carriers are safe to drive down the road.

Officer Sam Rippamonti:

So when you talk about weighing a vehicle, every vehicle has its own weight rating, I'm assuming, or is it is that how that works?

Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Officer Malena:

Yeah, every vehicle does have their own weight rating, but that's not really what we're looking for. We're we're looking for their actual axle weight. Right. So the uh the state has um they have a set amount of weight that you can carry on each axle or each tandem axle, like you know, and everybody thinks the gross weight for a big trick's 80,000 pounds, right? Everybody kind of everybody's heard that, yeah, right. Um single axles 20,000 pounds, tandem axles are 34,000 pounds. So, really what we're doing is we're checking to make sure that they're complying with those weight standards. And if they're not, that they've purchased an overweight permit to be on the roadway. Gotcha.

Officer Sam Rippamonti:

So I'm sure I'm sure there's companies that try to push that uh you know on a daily basis, try to do it fewer trips, you know, less fuel, yeah, hours they have to pay a driver.

Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Officer Malena:

Yep. We uh we we run into it every single day. You know, we uh we run into unsafe trucks every single day. I I would say we probably put more than 50% of trucks or drivers out of service for every inspection that we do.

Community Outreach Communicator Alexus Birmingham:

And and you enforce a toll way and 75.

Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Officer Malena:

Sure. So well, we can do commercial motor vehicle enforcement anywhere in the city. Okay, uh, but basically we can do it anywhere in the state. Um we work for the city of Allen. The city of Allen pays our salaries, but we work under Texas DPS for enforcement. Um there's a there's quite a few agencies in the DFW Metroplex that have these commercial motor vehicle enforcement programs. So what we do is we we do these details where we'll go to another city and all the inspectors will show up, and then that specific city will be responsible for pulling the vehicles over, bringing them into a parking lot, and then an inspector from a different city will then inspect the truck, make sure that it's safe. Um, you know, it just it's kind of a collaboration where we can all work together and enforce these statutes in our own cities as as well as inside the county that we're our city's in and other cities and other counties throughout the state.

Officer Sam Rippamonti:

Yeah, I feel like we were very proactive in Allen when we implemented your position. Yeah. Because you're or you're the first one to do it in Allen, right? Sure.

Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Officer Malena:

Yep. I helped start our program here.

Officer Sam Rippamonti:

And how long have you been doing it now?

Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Officer Malena:

Um, let's see. I've been doing commercial motor vehicle enforcement probably about 12 years. Wow. That's awesome.

Community Outreach Communicator Alexus Birmingham:

And do you help with also like any crashes or like help other agencies as well with that?

Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Officer Malena:

So I uh I'm on our on-call traffic our on-call crash team here for uh fatalities. Um you know, we uh we all take on a week of call. Everyone that's in the unit takes on a week of call at a time. And then I I do help other cities with with crashes with fatalities, specifically commercial motor vehicle fatalities. Whenever whenever the need arises.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Officer Sam Rippamonti:

So prior to being in traffic, you know, you were in patrol? I was. And then prior to coming to Allen, what what did you do?

Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Officer Malena:

So I was in the army. I was a field artillery soldier, got deployed to Iraq in 2003. Um, you know, I uh I got out of the army and I went to work for Peterbilt over in Denton. My uh my dad was a research and development engineer there. And so whenever I went to work for them, I started out like most everybody else does, you know, kind of started out at the bottom, started out building truck cabs. Uh, then I moved to over to what's called the test department, which is if you can imagine someone that does very similar what I do now, making sure that all the components of the truck are safe, uh, making sure that the truck was built to spec, making sure that it's roadworthy before it leaves the plant. That was uh that was the job that I was doing over I got laid off when the diesel market turned down. Yeah.

Officer Sam Rippamonti:

So I feel like uh that was around the same time you know I was in the home building market. Yeah, we're talking about we started very close together.

Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Officer Malena:

Yeah, been here a long time.

Officer Sam Rippamonti:

Yeah. So one of my first interactions with Derek, he probably doesn't even remember this, but for some reason I remember it like it's yesterday. Uh I think I'd been here, you know, a little over two years going on three. Maybe I'd already got moved to community relations. And we had our I knew who he was, but we hadn't really ever worked on the same shift or anything. And I passed this guy coming into the station. He goes, Hey man, why are you still carrying that gun? I figured you'd be putting stickers in that holster. That's my first interaction with this guy. And I'm like, who in the world is this guy? And uh, but from then on, I was like, I like this guy. He's got some sass to him. So we've picked at each other ever since for the last 18 years.

Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Officer Malena:

Yeah. If I'm not picking on you, then you know I probably don't like you. I'm just kidding. I uh, you know, it that this is a great place to work. You know, ever everybody here gets along with everybody. And it it's if you don't have that banter, you know, if you don't have that banter between your your people that you work with, it just it's not a fun place to work. You got any stickers?

Officer Sam Rippamonti:

Well, I got them right here. You know, and you know what? I would give this gun up if I knew I never would need it, and I could take that weight off my hips. Yeah, it'd be amazing. Absolutely.

Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Officer Malena:

So you have a wife, kids? I do, yeah. I uh I have a beautiful wife who uh I would consider my best friend that I've been married to for almost 23 years. I have two wonderful boys. Uh one of them is 22 years old. He uh he went to the dark side, he's a fireman for the garlic fire department.

Officer Sam Rippamonti:

Is it wait a minute, is it the one that did tobacco stings with us? It is. That's him, yeah. 16 years ago.

Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Officer Malena:

Yep. Yeah, and then I I have uh my youngest son is 16 years old. He's still in high school. Okay.

Officer Sam Rippamonti:

Not an empty nester yet.

Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Officer Malena:

Nope, not yet. Getting close. As soon as he got a driver's license, it almost felt like it. He's never home anymore. So you got a girlfriend? Yep, no, don't have a girlfriend. No, he's uh burning up the streets, burning up the streets, you know, participating in school events and band and ag and you know, he's just kind of getting involved in all of it. Keeps y'all busy.

Officer Sam Rippamonti:

Oh, yeah. It's gonna come to a halt before you know it. Yeah. I don't know. You said your oldest is engaged now. He is uh, yeah, actually, he is engaged, getting married in May. He might be a far from being a grandfather, granddad. I'm sure my wife would love that. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I think she's ready. Well, it's nice when you you have a baby in the house and you can give it back. Yeah.

Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Officer Malena:

Yeah, that's what I hear.

Community Outreach Communicator Alexus Birmingham:

Is there anything new in your unit that you can share?

Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Officer Malena:

Um so one of our motor officers, he uh you know, he just got a position, uh, assistant Texas DPS as a tactical flight officer. So, you know, before long, I think we're gonna have a motorcycle position open up. So that'll that'll be good. Yeah, that's not for me.

Community Outreach Communicator Alexus Birmingham:

He's going, uh, isn't he gonna be riding around in helicopters? He is, yeah. Aren't we all jealous?

Officer Sam Rippamonti:

Yes, yeah, it'd be a good job. But that motor position, that takes a special person too. It absolutely does. I watch them ride those motorcycles around with all this traffic, and you know, they're well when it's hot, it's hot, and when it's cold, it's cold. You get about three or four weeks of perfect Texas weather. That's what we're going through right now.

Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Officer Malena:

Yeah, you know, we have about two seasons in this state.

Officer Sam Rippamonti:

That is true. That is true. So I'm sure they're loving the weather now. But I, you know, I thought about you know, I used to ride motorcycles outside of work, but those guys doing it for a full-time job, that's it takes a special person. A lot of respect for them for what you're doing.

Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Officer Malena:

Absolutely.

Community Outreach Communicator Alexus Birmingham:

Are you any like any uh specialized units or on any boards?

Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Officer Malena:

So I uh I do currently sit on the board of board of directors for the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance. I uh I represent the if you could think of what would be the the local agencies throughout the United States and Canada as a region. So I'm the vice president over a region. We locals probably represents about 500 agencies throughout uh United States, Canada. Um, you know, technically it would be Mexico, but they have they only have state police, so they're not really included in the locals. Um it's uh it it's a great deal. It it's really good for Allen to have someone that has such a the ability to have such a say in you know international policy or the ability to to come up with position statements um collabor collaboratively with uh other agencies throughout the United States and Canada and Mexico and present these to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and say, hey, this is what we want to see. This is what we think is unsafe, this is what we would like you to change, this is what we would like you to implement. You know, so being able to have a voice uh at the voting table for such a large agency is uh it's it's great.

Officer Sam Rippamonti:

And it it helps having a chief that's so proactive and like encourages encourages you to be part of these different absolutely, you know.

Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Officer Malena:

I uh I had never met Chief Dye before before he came to work here. Um as soon as he did, and and you know, I was able to have some conversations with him about our commercial commercial motor vehicle safety program and how you know we we build this program off of being safety based, right? It it's it's never been about uh fines. Yes, do people get tickets whenever they get an inspection if they've done something wrong? Absolutely they do. Um but with our agency specifically, it it's not about the money. And with Chief Dye, it's about safety. And I'll give him a shameless plug. He was uh he was on a commercial vehicle safety alliance video for new agencies uh wanting to join CBSA, new local agencies. And you know, he's uh he's I think very passionate about the safety portion of it too. And and that's what we want, right? We we want this to remain about safety. And and when we do these inspections, we're we're out here to save people's lives. The entire goal of what we do, our our mission statement for CVSA, Texas DPS commercial motor vehicle, um their mission statement is all prevent commercial motor vehicle, crashes, fatalities throughout the state, throughout the United States, throughout Canada. It's about saving people's lives.

Officer Sam Rippamonti:

Roadway safety is definitely a top priority for you know, one of our top priorities for Chief Dye and uh they push you know drive to thrive for a good year.

Community Outreach Communicator Alexus Birmingham:

I mean it's still going on, but that was the main purpose was safety.

Officer Sam Rippamonti:

When we send our kids and our wives and our families out to to travel or go anywhere, we want our roads to be safe. Absolutely.

Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Officer Malena:

You know, that's you bring up a good point. You know, I I continue to do what I do because my family drives on the road, right? And you know, there's there's a ton of officers and a ton of people that have no idea what that commercial motor vehicle is capable of. It's it's an 80,000-pound missile. And if it's hauling hazardous material, it could be like several missiles, you know. So having the ability to make a contact with one of these trucks, uh, thankfully in our state, you know, we don't have to have probable calls to make contact with a commercial motor vehicle, just be in the vehicle gives us the ability to stop and contact it. And um, you know, conducting these inspections and finding you know a truck that that brakes are inoperative and saying, okay, well, you're out of service now and forbidding them to move until the truck is fixed, you know, I feel like that's a pretty big impact. You know, you never know if 10 miles down the road that guy has gets involved in uh a traffic backup, has to do a hard stop, can't stop, and now he's killed someone. You know.

Officer Sam Rippamonti:

So outside of uh work, what do you do? Is it like can't work all the time. What do you do outside of this? I'm sure you work.

Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Officer Malena:

I think my wife thinks I work all the time.

Officer Sam Rippamonti:

Maybe not here, but half the department does go to to Derek to get their vehicles worked on. Yeah, the guy can he's he can turn wrenches and fix anything on a vehicle.

Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Officer Malena:

So I uh I that that is what I like to do for fun. Um I have a workshop at my house. You know, I I work on a lot of people's cars, trailers, four-wheelers, campers. I mean, you name it, I'll I'll probably work on it. Yeah, I uh I've been fortunate to be able to be exposed to a lot of stuff from the time I was a a toddler with my grandpa and my dad, you know, being able to uh being shown how to work on stuff, having the ability to ride motorcycles and full wheelers and race go-karts and race junior dragsters, and you know, just being able to uh you know have uh have parents that said, Hey, here, go get hurt. Yeah, you know, right? If you're racing something, you're tearing stuff up. So you gotta learn to fix it. Not not having someone that was always having their thumb on me where I had to be stuck in the house. And I uh I I try to instill that in in my boys. You know, my I told you my oldest one is a fireman, super proud of him. He uh he's running a couple of side businesses on his own now. He owns a construction company. Um and another guy, they uh they own uh it's like an aquatic management company, another fireman. Um my uh my youngest, super proud of him. He's trying to follow in my footsteps. He loves working on stuff. We just finished up a two-year project, uh building uh an 83 four-wheel drive dually pickup. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Who's driving it? Well, he drives it. I I tried to, but he he doesn't he doesn't really like it. You know, I'll say, why don't you take my truck today? And he gives me that, you know, that's a wrong pickup. He wants to drive the older one. Yeah, I don't blame him. It's I think it's probably nicer than my nice pickup. Wow, I'd see this. Uh yeah, uh you know, we my my family loves to camp. We uh we love to ride four-wheelers and side by sides. My uh, you know, my wife loves that. She just recently got her an air conditioned side by side, so that's nice. Oh, those are expensive. Yeah, it's a pretty pretty there.

Officer Sam Rippamonti:

Yeah, it was uh that's like glamping, you know. That is exactly what we do. We glamp. We uh yeah, camper with an air conditioner. Yeah, I'm not popping a tent.

Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Officer Malena:

No. We do own a tent, but it's in a box. Yeah. That's for emergency use. Yeah, that's exactly right. If that comes out, something bad's going on. If that comes out, I'm not sure I'm going. Yeah. Or it'll be just you. Yeah, right.

Officer Sam Rippamonti:

That's funny.

Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Officer Malena:

And you play the drums, right? I do play the drums. I uh I've been playing the drums since I was uh I don't know, young, six or seven, and then you know.

Officer Sam Rippamonti:

When I found out you played the drums years ago, somebody's like, you know, in the so we have a police department band for a while named Reasonable Suspicion. Yeah, we did. And uh we're trying to you know get them back together. I love the same. When I was like, well, who who plays what instrument? You know, and you know Corporal Danko is the lead guitarist, which I knew he can he can play, he can play the heck out of a guitar. And they're like, Derek is the drummer, and I was like, What? Derek? Well, Country Boy Derek? He's like, Oh yeah, he's a good drummer. Then I've seen him play, and he he can play the drums. He is good. Yeah, it's uh it's been a long time.

Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Officer Malena:

I haven't I haven't played so much lately, but my youngest picked it up, he's a drummer. Is he really? He is, plays the drums, plays guitar.

Speaker 2:

Nice, yeah.

Officer Sam Rippamonti:

I I've I can play the guitar and I started trying to learn the drums because my youngest was was learning. Yeah. And it's when your feet are doing one thing and your hands are doing something different, yeah, it doesn't didn't work for me. Like I couldn't I couldn't get that down.

Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Officer Malena:

I'll tell you, my uh my most interesting thing I think I ever did with uh playing the drums was, you know, of course I played in school and up until you get in high school, you know, you're not in a marching band or anything. So when I was uh when I was a freshman in high school, the uh North Central Texas College over in Gainesville posted in the newspaper for you know people that that everybody I guess now thinks we don't have newspapers, but we still had newspapers back then. Uh they posted an ad for tryouts for a jazz band. I had never played jazz in my entire life. Oh my show up, set up my drum set. I played a Leonard Skinnard song for my my uh my interview, basically. Got this position in this jazz band and learned how to play jazz, you know. So I I was a freshman in high school playing in this college jazz band as well as being a band in school. It was hilarious. Yeah, it was it was cool. It was a it was a good time, it was a great experience. And you know, now with my youngest one playing the drums, I'm constantly asking him, You trying out for this? Are you doing this? Are you gonna play the jazz band? You know, and I get to come on, dad. Leave me alone.

Officer Sam Rippamonti:

Yeah. That's that's funny. So shifting gears. I know one of the things you help a lot with in our department is a couple big events we have each year. Uh, you know, Black Friday being one of them that's you know coming up, and then USA celebration, I would say, is a is a really big one that we have every year. Yeah. And when I say help, you kind of help with all the traffic patterns. Sure. And I'm sure that's a nightmare.

Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Officer Malena:

It absolutely can be.

Officer Sam Rippamonti:

If you what would you tell our citizens for USA celebration? USA celebration. If you have any recommendations to them.

Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Officer Malena:

If you plan on attending USA celebration, park at the high school and take the shuttle. You know, it it there's no cost? No, there is no cost. No, they can ride it for free. They're on Allen ISD school buses. That is absolutely the best way to get in and get out.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Officer Malena:

Um, you know, there there's just there's no parking around the area. A lot of the neighborhoods are closed, uh, you know, and it it just creates a huge traffic hazard for all the vehicles, uh, not to mention all the pedestrians that are trying to leave at the end. So if you plan on coming, I promise you the fastest way in and the fastest way out is to ride that shuttle. Because if you drive your car over there and you try to leave when it's over, you're going to be stuck in traffic for a long amount of time.

Officer Sam Rippamonti:

What about like handicapped parking?

Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Officer Malena:

Uh so if you're uh if you're handicapped or uh a VIP, we use the east parking lot off of Angel at the park itself. So, you know, uh we do close down northbound Angel Parkway during the event. So if you are handicapped or you are a VIP, enter off of uh Exchange Parkway and then go south on Angel. There'll be some people there that will uh they'll direct you where you got to go.

Officer Sam Rippamonti:

If by some chance they they want to take the shuttle, is it a lot of walking to do that?

Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Officer Malena:

Or is it no very minimal walking? They uh they can park at the high school. You know, it's not a very uh very long distance to get over to where the buses are at, and then the buses come into the east parking lot of USA uh celebration, and they'll let you off. You walk right into the event. When it's over, you come back, you know, you you wait in a short line, I would say, but we're we're running lots of buses, trying to get people in and out as quick as we can. And you know, and it's uh it it's pretty efficient because parks has helped us out with making sure the buses are are pretty much full before they leave. Yeah. Instead of trying to run, you know, oh, we got 10 people on this bus, let's take it to the high school. Yeah.

Officer Sam Rippamonti:

So if you do have to wait, it'll be a small amount of time, but you know, it's you don't have to register to ride the bus or anything, just show up at the high school and hop on the shuttle.

Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Officer Malena:

I believe that's correct. I don't think you have to register to ride the shuttle. That's awesome.

Officer Sam Rippamonti:

You heard it, Alan. Ride the shuttle.

Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Officer Malena:

Ride the shuttle, absolutely.

Community Outreach Communicator Alexus Birmingham:

So if any businesses have like any questions for you or they want to have like any classes, courses, do you offer any of that?

Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Officer Malena:

So, not so much classes or courses, but we do offer what's called a safety briefing. So if you're a you're a motor carrier or you're a trucking company and you want to have a kind of a question and answer session, or you just have questions, or you just want to make sure that your company's in compliance, we will absolutely assist you with that. So you could go to the allenpolice.org and contact the traffic unit, and they'll uh get in touch with me, and then I'll try to uh uh get with whatever whatever company it is or whatever representative, and we'll schedule a safety briefing and we'll make sure that you're in the right path.

Officer Sam Rippamonti:

That's nice. Awesome. I didn't know you offered that. Yeah, absolutely. Well, we appreciate you coming on today. Well, anytime. Thanks for having me. We've been trying to get you on for a while and we finally got it to work. Yeah. Yep, it's good. Yeah. If you want to learn more about our traffic unit or upcoming events, go check us out on our website, allenpolice.org.

Community Outreach Communicator Alexus Birmingham:

And make sure to like and subscribe. And if you have any comments, leave them down below.

Officer Sam Rippamonti:

We'll see you next time.

Community Outreach Communicator Alexus Birmingham:

Bye.