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Geocaching police presentation
Well, I made two presentations this week to the local sheriff's office, well... One presentation, and today talked to one officer about it. He was the only one that showed for the presentation today. I'm disappointed since I was hoping to refine the presentation a little more, but I at least got to talk to someone and tell them about geocaching.

The presentation I'm trying to design is really to inform law enforcement about geocaching, tell them what it's about, that we're out there doing this, and specifically that there's no geopolice telling poeple to label their caches, no one specifically is out there policing what's IN the caches, and most importantly, this is what a geocacher looks like, so when they get called that someone is skulking around in the woods in their backyard, in the neighbors flower garden, or across the street in that vacant lot, the police have an open mind when I say I'm geocaching, and know to look for a GPSr, cache information, and loot for the cache.

The presentation still has more to go to really refine it, especially since I've only made one presentation with local law enforcement, but I guess I'll contact another agency and see if they'd be open to it. Part of my problem I think is that being in Oregon, birthplace of geocaching, most of the people I have spoken with have already heard about it, so they don't think it's needed for the rest of the staff.

As far as I know, the presentation was well received, and there were more people that wanted to hear what I had to say, it was just a bad day for them.

Anyone have ideas about it?

The presentation can be seen here:
http://oregonstate.edu/~tuckersh/Geocaching police compressed.pps