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| By Safe Call Now® President & Founder - Sean Riley |
Some of my favorite conferences to speak at are the female
undercover schools. Why you ask? Because I don’t have to fight through the
testosterone, they call you on your crap and they’re much more engaging than
their male counterparts. The female UC’s
are also faced with different challenges than their male counterparts too. I often hear administrators say that the
female UC’s are treated the same as men.
I don’t buy that for a second and administrators if that’s what you’re
telling people, STOP!!!
Hollywood and television portray the female undercover
officer in sexy lingerie, sipping high end liquor in very high class
settings. This could not be further from
the truth. It is down and dirty street
level crime… In the gutter with things
you can’t even imagine.
Recently at one of these conferences, two separate schools
were running at the same time separating the genders. There’s a good reason for this, the females
have different challenges to overcome and you need more time to concentrate on
those challenges that would not be addressed in a joint conference.
At registration I overheard a male supervisor advise us that
his female UC was unable to attend the conference because she was the only
female in the unit and they needed her to stay behind and help the unit. Really???
Are her male counterparts required to do the same??? I don’t think so because they were all at the
conference.
