John Cook:  

College After High School, my goal was to get into Hotel Restaurant Management. I had started working in local Sharonville Hotels and obtained Asst Manager status at the Ramada Inn and Night Manager at the Days Inn. After several years of taking business courses and trying to work fulltime and listening to "The customer is always right" I decided that this wasn't for me. I got tired of listening to people complain so I got into Police Work where I no longer have to listen to the bitching. (to some extent) Anyways, at this point I dropped out of college and joined the US Coast Guard and began pursuing my career in law enforcment. Workplace I started with the Sharonville Police Department in Sept. 1982 as an Auxiliary Police Officer - which means they paid me $1.00 a year. The pay wasn't much but the experience has lead me to a very rewarding career. I was hired as a full time clerk dispatcher in 1984 where I worked the desk on third shift. I started testing for fulltime Police positions and the City of Cincinnati hired me in 1986 where I was assigned to Dst 4. About a year later Sharonville hired me fulltime and my life's dream was fullfilled. While at Sharonville, I've worked as a Patrol Officer, I was assigned to DART - Drug Abuse Reduction Task Force for 18 months, I served two years in our Detective Division and was promoted to Sgt. in 1996. I was the second shift Sgt. for a few years and I was than promoted to Lt. in 1999. My current job is Patrol Commander - I'm now in charge of the Patrol Division, the Detective Division and our Clerical Divi...Expand for more