Hello Jack,
thank you very much for your
message.
I am really surprised to
find such a great reply to
my request of finding some
contact to police officers
in the states. My situation
and position is the
following.
Since October `75 I am in
the police. After 2 years
of school and training I was
patrol-officer for 11 years.
And then, in 1988 the
state-government decided,
that the area (compare it
with a district that
includes 5 counties) needed
a standing riot-police unit,
I applied to be transferred.
In that unit (we call it
Einsatzhundertschaft) I was
8 years. We were responsible
in case of events such as
demonstrations an
crowd-control at
soccer-games and such. But
then, in the early nineties
we found that drugs started
to be a matter in the
society, in the city here.
And since we had the
capacity, the manpower to
work on that field, I
founded a group of officers
(within the riot-squad) to
work on that field, in
cooperation with the
drug-department, which only
consisted of a few guys. So,
drugs was my field during
the week, other events was
my thing on weekends. For 8
years.
Then my application was
accepted to go to some kind
of college or university (Fachhochschule).
With the degree from
school I was promoted to
lieutenant in 1999, next
promotion was last year. For
2 years then I worked in the
department for (of ?) fraud.
And then they needed
qualified people in the
anti-terror department. And
there I am now for almost 5
years.
I am married, we have two
boys, 12 and 16 years old.
My wife Silvia, who works as
a psychologist, had the
following consideration.
The older boy, Kai, is not
so enthusiastic any more to
go on vaccation with us, he
wants to do his own things.
So we decided together to do
one last big trip together
as a family before we let
him off. And that ist our
trip to the US in this
Easter-holidays.
So we will arrive in Dallas
on April 8th and our plan
ist that we don`t have any.
We have rented a van and we
plan to visit the country
and go wherever we feel
like.
I did not really expect any
assistance from anyone,
since it is not my stile to
ask.
But I would love to be in
touch with someone who could
possibly give me (us) some
ideas about where to go and
what to do in Texas, or what
to avoid.
Could you possibly recommend
a place to stay for the
first night after arrival.
(not too expensive)
Is there anything that you
would like to get from here,
what would you like ??
(We live in the city of
Bielefeld -lousy weather by
the way- 320 000 people,
countryside, hills, forest
and more around here in
Westfalia, so the best thing
to take would probably be
our specialty, a whole chunk
of home-smoked ham. But
trying to bring that would
most likely take me to jail
directly - that would be
another way to meet
law-enforcement officers in
Texas.)
My provider told me that my
mobile phone is supposed to
work in the U.S.. If so, you
could reach me under the
number 0152 - 02084233.
Our arrival is on flight LH
438, 13.30 PM April 8th.
see you
Uwe Schwarze
