Lutenant Chalek: You’re an officer, you’re a teacher, you’re a coach

“I’ve told people this repeatedly, that I find being a campus police officer to be more challenging than being a municipal police officer,” he said.

He explained that when you are a municipal police officer, there is more freedom and more room to patrol. Essentially, an officer is not confined to a campus.

“You go, you do your job, you have a lot of variety,” said Chalek. “You can make it what you want.”

Chalek explained that the department is a confined place where an officer can take on so many roles on the campus, unlike a regular officer who is out running radar for eight hours a day.

You’re an officer, you’re a teacher, you’re a coach, you’re a disciplinarian, you’re a surrogate parent, you’re an adviser, you are a law enforcer, so you have so many different roles that you plan,” Chalek said. “Realistically, in my opinion, you have a great impact on people coming here.”

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