Gabriel Thomas

I provide armed protection of Treasury Personnel during transport and collection of cash and coin from change machines and Clipper Card vending machines at all BART stations.

I also provide armed transport for the collection routes and treasury personnel which includes driving armored truck with semi-tractor trailers and crew transport vans. Driving the armored truck requires maintaining a Class A drivers license and maintaining a clean driving record which I have done so for nearly my whole RPG career.

To provide my armed protection as an RPG I completed a 832 PC arrest and control and firearms course shortly after my RPG employment began and have qualified every six months at our scheduled BART PD firearms training programs during my entire RPG career with both my BPD issued Sig Sauer P320 handgun and BPD shotguns that I mount inside the armored truck if assigned as a truck driver for a shift.

In addition to protecting treasury personnel and cash on collection routes, I also perform armed protection of the Cash Handling Building (CHB). This includes monitoring interior and exterior video cameras of the CHB, safely opening CHB bay doors to allow trailers to be unloaded after the return of the collection route and monitoring entrance of all personnel and ensuring that only credentialed and authorized personnel enter the CHB. Inside the CHB I maintain full inspection and custody of CHB treasury vehicle and personnel keys that unlock Clipper Card vendors and the cash and coin vaults inside them.

During each shift I monitor BPD radio traffic from RPGs on the RPG radio channel as well as the BPD Dispatch channel at all times to ensure safety and security for all treasury and RPG personnel from any location I may be on my shift.

I also maintain truck driver logs, CHB daily time sheet logs, CHB and RPG key issue logs, truck inspection reports and daily RPG rosters.

If I am assigned to open the CHB, I am responsible for providing armed protection of the CHB interior and exterior and also safely disarming the CHB alarm system upon arrival to the CHB and establishing the CHB is safe for daily operation.

If I am assigned to close the CHB, once I ensure all treasury property is secured and all treasury personnel have exited the CHB, I arm the CHB alarm system and make sure the doors and gates to the CHB are locked and secure upon closing the CHB at the end of CHB business for the day.

As a Community Service Assistant (CSA) I provided assistance duties to police personnel and the public throughout the District.

CSA work duties and responsibilities include issuing citations and warnings for parking violations, patrolling parking facilities and assigned areas while monitoring and communicating radio traffic through the BPD Dispatch channel to ensure public safety on and off district property during my shift.

As a CSA I was trained how to properly write Police and Incident reports and how to properly understand and transmit BPD radio traffic. This included memorizing the phonetic alphabet used for radio transmitting and learning the definitions of BPD 10 and 11 codes as well as various emergency and penal codes that are commonly used by police officers and dispatchers.