Officer Betty Shelby has been with the Tulsa police department for six years. Her son wants to become an officer after graduating High School. 

         Shelby likes being a patrol officer because there's always something to do.

       

        Police officers are no longer allowed directly into a suicide-watch home because of the threat they            impose. Earlier, people on watch would threaten the police that they would commit suicide if they came any closer.

With the help of counselors and extra calvary, Officer Shelby prepares to approach this suicidal man who had taken over 50 schizophrenia pills to commit suicide the night before. Officers were told the man had a bat and a samurai sword hidden under a couch beside the door. 

Officer Shelby tested her fingerprinting skills with a burglarized home.

Gloves are worn at all times of fingerprinting and collecting any evidence.

It's hard to collect fingerprints when the homeowner touched things. 

"My best advice to give to a homeowner wanting to catch a perp, don't touch anything," Shelby said.

The homeowner's safe was broken, busted and flipped over. Officer Shelby dusted for fingerprints everywhere she thought they'd touch trying to break the safe.

Officer Jonella Griffith was called to a car wreck to direct traffic. Griffith has worked for the Tulsa police department for 12 years. 

The 50-year-old man had a seizure and struck two utility poles. Although his car suffered a lot of damage, he left with only a broken leg.

The man's car lost control more than 50 feet away from the final crash after hopping a ditch.

"The best part about being an officer is that you get to help people," Griffith said.