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victim or child, and with her interactions with fe-males brought into the jail.

“You can almost see the relief on their fac-es,” she said.

Leuthardt enjoys be-ing involved in many different things that she would otherwise have no access to, had she not decided on a career as a police officer. Her fu-ture goals include doing some type of specialized work, such as investi-gating human and sex trafficking cases.

“It’s not the best topic in the world, and it’s unfortunate with the internet, the social me-dia we have now,” she

said. “The kids that are online unsupervised, even just the grooming of kids on Facebook. These things are hap-pening, maybe not on a large scale in our com-munity, but North Da-kota is seeing it. Long

term, I could see myself doing something along those lines.”

She said she’d like the public to know that of-ficers are people, too, and it’s OK to go up and have a conversation with them.

“We like talking to them, we’re not just looking for what they did wrong,” she said.

Leuthardt is the first person in her family to join law enforcement, and she has many fam-ily members in the military, including her brother. She said at first her mom wasn’t overly excited about her be-coming a police officer, but now, “it’s a sense of pride for the family,” she said.

PART-TIME: Leuthardt enjoys the variety as a police officer‘I had been catching shoplifters for three years at Scheels in Fargo, and the inter-actions I had with the law enforcement of-ficers up there kind of sparked my interest.’Officer Chelsie Leuthardt

CARRIE MCDERMOTT • DAILY NEWSOfficer Chelsie Leuthardt starts her shift for the Breckenridge Police Department.

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CARRIE MCDERMOTT • DAILY NEWSChelsie Leuthardt is a new police officer with the Breckenridge Police Department. She graduated with a double major in criminal justice and sociology in 2010 and went through law enforcement training during that summer.

Leuthardt became interested in law enforcement through sociology classes, coupled with criminal justice

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Officer Chelsie Leuthardt was re-cently hired part-time by the Breck-enridge Police Department. She also works part-time for the Wheaton Po-lice Department. And if two jobs weren’t enough for this young law enforcement officer, she’s also employed at the Traverse County Jail.

“The jail position will end in June, since I’ve been hired on here,” she said.

Leuthardt said she was not initially drawn to law enforcement. She was studying for a busi-ness degree at Min-nesota State Uni-versity Moorhead, when she began taking sociology classes.

“I went to school for inter-national busi-ness, then decid-ed I appreciate numbers but didn’t like them very much,” she said. “Through sociology classes that coupled as criminal justice classes I met the law enforcement advisor/professor. I was really inter-ested in the sociol-ogy aspect of things. He said I should con-sider this.”

Leuthardt, pro-nounced “light-heart”, said she re-alized she enjoyed working with people and liked things that change in a fast-paced environ-ment.

“I had been catching shop-lifters for three years at Scheels

in Fargo, and the interactions I had with the law enforcement officers up there kind of sparked my interest,” she said.

She had a double major in criminal justice and sociology, and earned her bachelor of arts degree, graduating in

2010. She went through her law en-forcement training during that

summer, and was hired on in Wheaton a couple years ago.

She said her background in customer service has been an asset to her police work.

“You have to know how to deal with people,” she said.

“I don’t think you could do this job if you didn’t

like people.”As a female of-

ficer, she said she initially thought she may have to overcompensate, that maybe she wouldn’t com-mand the same respect as her male counter-

parts.“But I’ve never

had to do that yet,” she said.

Having good com-munication skills,

as well as her sociol-ogy background, has allowed her to sit and talk to people before questioning them. Many times, people tell her

more than they’d intend-ed, she said.

“They end up saying more to me (than the male

officers) all the time. I feel like I’ve gotten a lot of infor-mation out of people with-out really trying,” she said. “They just offer up that in-formation. Then again, it could just be the uniform.”

She said there’s a benefit to being a female officer, when called out to interview a female

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MATTHEW LIEDKE • DAILY NEWSOfficer Andy Boen has been working part-time for the Breckenridge Police Department since January. He also helps his grandfather, John Boen, on his farm near Pelican Rapids, Minn., so he considers his job as the ‘best of both worlds.’ He is pictured outside the Wilkin County Courthouse.

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12-hour days and spent the other three on the farm.

“I grew up in Minnesota and I‘m glad to be back in this area,” he said. “It is working out well so far. I have a great group of peo-ple to work with.”

He appreciates work-ing under Chief Nate Harder. Boen has worked for a couple of different chiefs, but said Harder is the best he has ever worked for. Harder’s officers and the community they protect come first.

There are days this career leaves even the most seasoned officer un-settled. Boen said one of the hardest calls he ever had to go on dealt with the sexual assault of a young boy by a distant family member. Boen had to break the news to the child’s parents about a situation that had oc-curred virtually under their noses.

“There are a lot of calls like that,” he said. “I’ve learned how to deal with elderly people who have diminished abilities and seen family members stress out trying to man-age the situation.”

He hasn’t had to handle

a lot of death scenes, but realizes they are part of being a police officer. It is the unexpected calls, the tough situations that are the most heart wrench-ing, he said, especially when he can’t do any-thing about it.

Because he has chosen this career, Boen real-izes people see the badge and not necessarily the man behind it. Citizens don’t usually thank him for routine citations, and some are quick to say law enforcement is never handy when people need them.

“It is a unique situation when someone goes out of their way to thank us,” he said. “It is our job to do the right thing to help people. We take care of our citizens.”

He suggests people mind the speed limit, wear their seat belts and take their well-being to heart. Boen is a propo-nent for security and welfare. It is his job to pa-trol the streets of Breck-enridge to ensure the safety of everyone. So if people see him cruising the streets, understand he isn’t always going to write a ticket or ar-rest people. Educating the public is also part of what he does.

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Although he liked the idea of “protect and serve,” he swore he would never follow in his fa-ther’s footsteps. Boen wanted to work in a differ-ent capacity of the law, as a conservation officer but couldn’t find work with the Department of Natu-ral Resources. He shifted his outlook at that point into becoming a police of-ficer.

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Richland County Dis-patch also has a system that allows agents to run the plate of a car, which can show anything lost or stolen. The system also has a recorder to save information that can be used in court.

In cases of emergen-cies, the dispatch room has control over the siren activation and can still operate if the power shuts down. Each counsel is immediately backed up by a generator so there is no waiting to reboot the system.

One piece of technol-

ogy that’s new is kept in a back room. The main servers for the systems used at the counsels, as well as a server that is shared with Stutsman County N.D. The county has a fiber connection that if Richland went down, dispatch could still be operational.

Breuer said all of the technology that they use on a regular basis is used to help protect the county.

“We try for good cus-tomer service. We like to help people and want everyone taken care of. We want to make sure all of our officers and re-sponders are safe when they go out,” Breuer said.

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“Traffic stops, school patrol, accidents, medicals, fires – we handle just about everything,” Breuer said. “We take in all of the information, the who, what, why, when and how. We use a computer system to dis-patch it out to whatever agen-cy we need.”

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she said, “We’ve had times in a 12-hour period where we re-ceive 2,000 calls.”

Each of the three counsels in the dispatch room contain multiple monitors with each serving a different purpose. Breuer explained that the top monitors are live feeds from cameras.

“We monitor the Court-house, the Law Enforcement Center, outside and in the ga-rages, visitor booths and in-side the jail,” she said.

A phone system is also uti-lized by dispatch agents. The system allows for the dispatch-er to see the number, address and describes what agency to dispatch in cases of a land line. When a cell phone call comes in, the system has two phases. Phase one is able to get the latitude and longitude of the

cell phone tower and gives the phone number. With phase two, the system can tell where the cell phone is within a few meters.

This phone system can send the information to another monitor using another sys-tem that shows a county map. The county map system, once the information comes up, can pinpoint where to dispatch the fire or ambulance as well as keep track of what roads are currently closed in the county.

Breuer explained how anoth-er system works, as a comput-erized log of what goes on.

“We add in the initial infor-mation, then we send it to the officer so they can finish their report upstairs,” she said. “We

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Left and cover: Jill Breuer, com-munications/911 manager at Rich-land County, monitors the various com-puter screens that allows the Dispatch Center to keep track of what’s going on. Systems handled on the comput-ers include a phone monitor-ing system that gives the address and number, a computer-ized dispatch to connect with responders and one that is able to run license plates to identify vehicles are lost or stolen.

The technology used at Richland Dispatch is to help out the residents of the county. ‘We try for good cus-tomer service. We like to help people and want everyone taken care of. We want to make sure all of our officers and responders are safe when they go out.’Jill BreuerCommunications/911 Manager at Rich-land Dispatch SEE RICHLAND DISPATCH, PAGE 6