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I rode along with the Plano PD, as a member of the Citizens' Police Academy, I actually could have ridden more times but it wasn't convenient.

We were told, in class, that we who had CHLs would not be allowed to carry on ride alongs (this was before the change in the law, so we couldn't even carry in class) and that was reiterated at sign up for the ride along.

After I met the officer I would ride with, we went out and inventoried the car and started out on patrol - I was not invited to sit in on roll call.

As we left the parking lot the officer asked me if I had a CHL and was I carrying. I told him that I was and was not and tat was pretty much the end of it.

We had little or no excitement on our shift, caught a kid who had been stealing cigarettes from "stop an rob" stores, street racing yet, with about a hundred packs of various brands of smokes all in the back seat.

We investigated the theft of a fire extinguisher from a hotel.

We investigated a prowler in an abandoned building - there I was ordered to stay in the car and listen to the radio.

Late in the shift the officer revealed that he wouldn't have had any problem with me carrying, but department policy is department policy.