Exploration 1

I did my observations with this group and find it hard to just watch them as they had lots of questions and really wanted me to know a lot about their job and what it entails as they told me what their days mainly consisted of right from the start like they really wanted me to know. Not like they were complaining but maybe because of who I am I’m thinking.

The thing that stands out the most about my observations is that the PO’s do a lot of work on the computer. Mainly in the form of doing paper work on everything that they do, from just talking to a client to even talking to me in there office. Everything has to be documented in their job as I observed in the hour I was there and from what they told me.

I find that I want to know what it feels like to walk into a house that my or my not have any illegal activities going on inside. I would think it would be very exciting to say the least. I also would like to know more about their personal lives and what they do when they are not at work. This is kind of a personal thing for me. Other details I liked were the GPS tracking systems. How they have evolved and where they think that they are going to go in the future.

I need to learn more about how their case loads effect how much time they get to spend on each client. What do they do with each client? How they split up the work between themselves. What kind of things they find on home checks. I think it would also be kind of cool to hear some of the funnies things that they have run into while working there at drug court

The things that they talked about the most after they got over me being there and wanting to tell me everything I wanted to know was about client’s information. Like one PO was making calls to inform clients that they needed to call back and check in. Seems that nobody answered the re phone to him but some of them would call back after the listened to the message. Guess they don’t answer to unavailable numbers. So he would say stuff about different peoples answering messages. Another PO was very quiet and was watching a GPS tracking device and then doing paperwork, back and forth. The PO I thought was the leader of the three was doing phone calls to California tracking someone down. So he would give an update on every step closer he came. Up until he found out the guy was in town again.

What surprises me the most about these guys was how slow they worked and how hard it is for them to get information about people. When you have to do back ground checks on people it seems that they were getting more info by just talking to people on the phone rather than internet searches or what was on the system to begin with.