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From YouTube: I AM CMPD Eric Boulware
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A
Well,
it
was
a
lifelong
dream
to
become
a
police
officer
growing
up
in
rural
Mecklenburg
County.
My
father
had
a
very
good
friend
that
was
with
the
North
Carolina
House
Patrol
by
the
name
of
trooper
Arnold
Coley,
and
he
would
come
by
my
dad's
house
a
lot
and
he
would
let
me
look
inside
of
his
car
and
I'd
look
at
his
uniform
and
as
a
small
child,
I
said
one
day.
I
want
to
wear
a
uniform
like
that.
A
They
were
so
nice
to
my
parents,
even
at
that
young
age
I
was
you
know
about
how
they
were
professional.
My
career
path
is
really
the
way
that
I
wanted
it
to
go.
I
graduated
from
East
Mecklenburg
High
School,
which
were
on
these
beautiful
grounds
of
my
my
alma
mater
one
of
the
classes
that
we
had
to
take
was
a
civics
class.
Our
school
resource
officer
was
a
man
by
the
name
of
David,
Allred
and
David.
A
I
graduated
from
East,
Mecklenburg,
High,
School
and
I
was
lucky
enough
to
get
a
four-year
band
scholarship
to
South
Carolina,
State,
University,
I
majored
in
criminal
justice,
and
when
I
graduated
in
South
Carolina
State
University
I
wanted
to
become
a
Mecklenburg
County
police
officer
because
that's
where
I
grew
up,
they
were
not
hiring
at
that
particular
time.
So
I
ended
up
going
to
the
Charlotte
Police
Department
in
November
of
1988
and
joined
the
Academy
and
its
history
from
there.
A
1990
I
got
my
chance
to
go
to
the
Mecklenburg
County
Police,
Department
and
I
took
it
so
I
ended
up
becoming
the
Mecklenburg
County
police
officer
until
consolidation
in
1990
three.
Since
then,
my
career
has
has
been
really
what
I
wanted
to
do
up
and
I
also
became
a
school
resource
officer
like
they've.
Already
I
was
the
third
school
resource
officer
at
Providence.
A
High
School
stayed
there
for
approximately
six
years
and
really
really
enjoyed
it
from
there
on
I
went
on
to
the
highway
interdiction
and
Traffic
Safety
Unit,
which
was
our
Traffic
Unit
I,
left
the
hit
unit
and
went
on
to
become
a
trainer.
That's
a
training
academy
and
I
really
enjoy
being
an
instructor
at
the
academy
and
I
stayed
there
for
approximately
three
years
and
went
on
become
the
policies
and
directors
officer
for
the
Charlotte
Mecklenburg
Police
Department.
Every
organization
has
to
have
rules
and
regulations.
A
A
A
I'll
always
say:
God
works
in
mysterious
ways,
and
he
steered
me
towards
the
assignment
where
I
am
now
I'm
a
missing-persons
detective
specializing
in
juvenile
missing
persons,
and
there
are
a
lot
of
teenagers
out
here
that
are
undisciplined,
encouraging
a
runaway,
a
throwaway
because
they're
in
bad
family
situations,
so
their
parents
get
them
get
to
a
certain
age
and
they
throw
them
away.
Those
are
ones
that
I
deal
with.
Sometimes
it's
bittersweet,
but
I
love.
What
I
do
right
now,
I
really
do.
A
This
is
one
assignment
that
I
can
honestly
say
it's
gonna
take
a
while
for
them
to
pry
me
from
the
Charlotte
Mecklenburg
Police
Department,
it's
very
cohesive
I
mean
there's
a
camaraderie
just
within
the
department
that
if
it
continues
the
way
that
it
is,
it
can
never
be
broken
up.
When
you
just
look
at
the
overall
bonding
of
the
Charlotte
Mecklenburg
Police
Department
and
I'll
tell
you
when
you
see
that
whenever
we
have
a
fallen
officer,
I've
been
a
member
of
the
Charlotte
Mecklenburg
Police
honor
guard.
A
Since
1996
you're
there
to
represent
the
Charlotte
Mecklenburg
Police
Department,
but
you
also
there
to
represent
that
fallen
person,
whether
it's
an
officer,
that's
following
the
line
of
duty
or
retiree.
That's
given
30
years
of
his
service,
if
anything
would
have
happened
to
me,
I
know
that
the
Charlotte
Mecklenburg
Police
Department,
we'll
handle
my
family
the
same
way
we
handled
other
families,
my
mother,
she
still
is
very
proud
of
me.
A
She
tells
me
that
all
the
time
my
father
passed
away
in
2000
and
before
he
passed
away,
one
of
the
things
he
told
me
was
that
he
was
very
proud
of
me.
I
go
and
talk
to
college
students
and
one
of
the
first
things
I
tell
college
students
is
that
policing
has
changed.
It's
not
what
you
see
on
television,
it's
of
a
petrol
career
cause
you're,
always
gonna
have
a
job.
Your
benefits
are
great,
you're
gonna
get
great
retirement
and
the
camaraderie
is
phenomenal.
A
When
you
pin
on
this
badge-
and
you
are
a
Charlotte
Mecklenburg
Police
Officer
within
the
Charlotte
Mecklenburg
community-
that's
still
saying
a
lot.
One
of
the
biggest
successes
for
me
personally
was
to
see
students
at
Providence
High
School
become
successful
to
see
students
who
were
on
a
bad
track
or
wrong
track
and
to
see
them
do
a
complete
turnaround
with
their
lives.