Tammi Manser:  

Hi Gang! Wow time sure has passed by very quickly! I cant believe how many years have passed by since we were in school. Now the next generations in our families are attending the same schools we did! In the years after school, I held numerous jobs in the Law Enforcement spectrum. I skipped college and went straight to work... I worked for the Scott County Sheriff's Dept. for 5 years. I was a Correctional Officer in the jail. I was also on the Transport Team, transporting inmates to other facillities throughout Iowa and Illinois. About a year into my career I became an FTO, (Field Training Officer) and was entrusted to train and facilitate new programs to gauge improvement and certify new recruits. I also attended several FBI schools in Fingerprinting and was a Booking & Fingerprinting Officer for several years. Still a little curious as to what else there was besides good old Davenport Iowa, in August of 2000, I moved to North Carolina to work for a Law Enforcement computer software company called OSSI. I was a training specialist for 911 software, including jail management systems, CAD & records management systems, and also a evidence module that tracked and maintained evidence rooms with barcoding and a handheld Palm Pilot. I traveled all over the US to different Police Dept.'s, Sheriff Dept.'s and Jails, teaching and installing software. I returned to Davenport after realizing that my family was more important to me than any job. I now had 2 nieces, which I loved very much and enjoyed spoiling rotten. So when one of my clients I taught in NC offred me a job, I returned in September 2001 and worked at the RI Police Dept. for a brief time. I accepted a position as a residential counselor at Annie Wittenmeyer in 2002. At times I am not sure if they could tell the difference between me and the kids! I kinda adopted them as my own and spoiled them too! Working with the kids there was extremely rewarding, but I missed law enforcement very much. In early 2003 I began working for the Iowa Department of Corrections as a Corrections Officer in the Anamosa State Penn. I stayed on as a part-time Lead Counselor at Annie Wittenmeyer and commuted back at and forth 150 miles each day. That didn't last too long, as I couldn't find a house or an apartment that wasn't either out in the middle of nowhere or had inmate's family members next door. (not too popular with them...they weren't too kind to prison guards) The town was just too small. Shortly after the long stay at the Corrections Acedemy in Des Moines, I returned home yet again. I guess some people just never stray too far from their roots. While working at Annie Wittenmeyer, I took on several other positions at various programs on the campus. I began working 10-12 hours a day in my own program, and working my days off volunteering in others. (I'm a sucker for kids) I absolutely loved this job and the people and families that I met along the way. It was probably the most rewarding and heartbreaking job Ive ever had, and one that will leave a lasting impression on my heart. In August of 2004, I was hired as a dispatcher for Davenport PD, and fell in love with the job and the people I worked with. I was finally "home." I thought that I had the perfect job before, but this one, I just "f...Expand for more