Laura Motes had many duties throughout her career with the Athens-Clarke County Police Department. She started with the force as a patrol officer in 1993, fresh from her extensive military police training with the United States Army at Fort McClellan, Alabama. She worked her way up and became Sergeant in the West Precinct for the Athens-Clarke County Police Department, where she worked for ten years ensuring that her community is safe and working hard to reducing and eliminating crime. In 2014, she left the force to pursue another avenue of employment as a nurse. She plans on attending Georgia Regents University in the fall of 2016 to earn her Master’s degree in Nursing.
Laura Motes was in charge of supervising and monitoring shift activities. She also directed the shift’s patrol efforts to help reduce crime in her precinct. She developed strategies using personnel at her precinct to protect her community and ensure that justice is kept on the streets of her territory. Motes loved working closely with officers to mentor and assist them in their daily activities and their career development. She provided the support that all police officers need to do their jobs effectively.
Laura Motes had many daily responsibilities, all of which were integral to the overall effectiveness of the police department as a whole and to her precinct’s operations directly. She reviewed incident reports that officers filed for their thoroughness and accuracy. She used these reports to compile information for her administrative reports. In addition to mentoring officers that came under her wing, Motes also oversaw their training and the socialization of all new personnel in her shift. Motes acted as the communication hub for her shift, receiving and preparing all kinds of correspondence from other departments or precincts. She acted as a reliable source of information for the public and for other police departments in the area, transmitting new information and correspondence to the applicable parties and answering questions that people in the media come up with.
Laura Motes had the necessary and unenviable job of investigating all complaints of officer misconduct or inappropriate action. She took all of her actions against and on behalf of officers in her shift and precinct with the utmost professional courtesy and did her best to sort out all details from both sides of all conflicts. She diligently interviewed all officers implicated in misconduct complaints and collected pertinent information which she used to complete and submit administrative reports to her superiors.
Laura Motes kept the West Precinct of the Athens-Clarke County Police Department up and running smoothly so that it could continue to protect and serve the people of the community in the fairest and most just way possible for ten years.
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Laura Motes was in charge of supervising and monitoring shift activities. She also directed the shift’s patrol efforts to help reduce crime in her precinct. She developed strategies using personnel at her precinct to protect her community and ensure that justice is kept on the streets of her territory. Motes loved working closely with officers to mentor and assist them in their daily activities and their career development. She provided the support that all police officers need to do their jobs effectively.
Laura Motes had many daily responsibilities, all of which were integral to the overall effectiveness of the police department as a whole and to her precinct’s operations directly. She reviewed incident reports that officers filed for their thoroughness and accuracy. She used these reports to compile information for her administrative reports. In addition to mentoring officers that came under her wing, Motes also oversaw their training and the socialization of all new personnel in her shift. Motes acted as the communication hub for her shift, receiving and preparing all kinds of correspondence from other departments or precincts. She acted as a reliable source of information for the public and for other police departments in the area, transmitting new information and correspondence to the applicable parties and answering questions that people in the media come up with.
Laura Motes had the necessary and unenviable job of investigating all complaints of officer misconduct or inappropriate action. She took all of her actions against and on behalf of officers in her shift and precinct with the utmost professional courtesy and did her best to sort out all details from both sides of all conflicts. She diligently interviewed all officers implicated in misconduct complaints and collected pertinent information which she used to complete and submit administrative reports to her superiors.
Laura Motes kept the West Precinct of the Athens-Clarke County Police Department up and running smoothly so that it could continue to protect and serve the people of the community in the fairest and most just way possible for ten years.
