皮尔索尔副局长产生了影响
最近的一次 庆祝“本土英雄”的广告宣传活动 features Pearsall and other CMPD officers on Charlotte buses and light rail trains.
Growing up the daughter of a preacher in Charlotte’s Greenville community, service was an expectation in Deputy Chief Sherie Pearsall’s family. She saw her mother give of herself unselfishly and sought to model the same morals in her own life’s work.
27年后 推荐十大赌博靠谱信誉的平台 (化合物), Pearsall knows becoming a police officer was the choice and one that fulfilled those familial and personal responsibilities engrained in her at an early age. But after graduating from college, that wasn’t at all her vision for the future.
The eldest of five children and an East Mecklenburg High School Eagle, Pearsall became the first in her immediate family to graduate from college and she did so with honors. 她拥有利文斯通学院的历史学位, 她计划成为一名律师, 但是手头很紧. 学术和体育奖学金使她上了大学, but now she was back in Charlotte to begin the tough work of putting herself through law school.
服务更大
Seeing youth become college graduates was a point of celebration for the Greenville community. 在社区举办的毕业典礼上, Pearsall was approached by the Charlie One District captain who began questioning her about plans for the future. At the time, law enforcement was not a career option she’d considered.
“I’d never interacted with the police before,” Pearsall says. “We feared our mother more than the police so we didn’t get in trouble. 但在我成长的社区里, there were a lot of challenged areas and not good community/police relationships.”
She did have a great rapport with her school resource officers, both role models who provided a vision of what was possible and who treated her like one of their own children. 之间的连接, more conversations with the captain and growing frustration over her dead-end job, she decided CMPD might be the five-year plan she was looking for. She’d invest a few years, then move on to her career as an attorney -- but she never did. The impact she was looking to make ended up being right where she was as an officer.
“What we do, it’s beyond law enforcement,” Pearsall says. “You have an opportunity to impact people on the worst day of their lives and your goal is to make sure they come out better on the other side. 我有一颗为人民服务的心, 为民之灵, 和化合物, it became an opportunity to serve something greater than myself.”
一个社区的责任
The Greenville community was so proud to see one of their own become a CMPD officer that they bought a young Pearsall her first police vest. 社区对她的信任, 虽然有深刻意义, 实际上是一个额外的负担, 她说, because she never wanted to disappoint or fall short of their high expectations.
在她的职业生涯, Pearsall has sought to find balance within the department to assure the culture and work of CMPD meet the needs of the community it serves. And it turns out that Greenville’s expectations of what she could achieve were well placed.
六年后，她被提升为中士. 带着她闪亮的新徽章, she nervously walked into her first roll call when she spotted a familiar face -- one of the school resource officers she’d admired years before.
“I used to chase you around Randolph Junior High School and now you’re my supervisor,” he joked.
Clearly, he and the new role had more to teach Pearsall; she was ready to take it in. CMPD presents no lack of opportunity to learn, grow and have an impact, 她说. 今天, she finds the opportunity to serve is greater than ever. 担任行政事务小组副主任, 她负责招聘及训练局, the Communications Bureau and the Administrative Services Bureau.
“The greater the leadership role, the greater the responsibility to serve,” Pearsall says. “Getting promoted is not about you, it’s more about your people. I advocate for them and work to meet their needs so they can meet the needs of the community.”
今天, the responsibility to the community that Pearsall feels is even greater as her roots in Charlotte have grown deeper.
“我在这里养了一个儿子, 现在我当祖母了, 所以我的孙辈们在这个社区长大. 我的兴趣远远超出了警局. The success of this place and the importance of CMPD in Charlotte means a lot.”
找到你的“为什么”
她担任行政事务副主任, Pearsall’s responsibility is to the officers whose shoes she once stood in, including overseeing the CMPD Academy where new officers come to begin their careers, 终身军官继续接受教育.
在约翰尼·詹宁斯队长的房间里 部门的战略方向在美国，他提出了四项核心价值观. 皮尔索尔是该协会的执行赞助商 员工健康的支柱, ensuring that officers have the resources they need to care for their own well-being within a challenging job.
不管工作或工作的需要, Pearsall encourages others and herself to take a step back and look at the reasons they became a police officer in the first place.
“我总是会回到我的原因，”她说. 当你问“为什么??答案就在你身边. 篮球场上的孩子们. The seniors you have tea with on their porch while you’re on patrol. The calls for service where you have the opportunity to change the outcome. It brings it all back into perspective and you can focus on the fact that you came here to serve the greater good.”