Positivity: Bionic Cop — Police Officer Still On Patrol After Losing Both Legs
From Sacramento (video is also at link):
Created: 9/21/2007 1:09:20 PM
Updated: 9/21/2007 1:10:39 PMSACRAMENTO, Calif. — A California Highway Patrol officer involved in a tragic accident is back on patrol. After losing both legs, Officer Mike Remmel refused to retire even though the odds were stacked against him.
In a regular black and white patrol car, Officer Mike Remmel quietly pulls up to the CHP Academy in west Sacramento. On not one but two prosthetic legs, Officer Remmel is here to deliver a message. Officer Remmel says “this has been the goal from the third day after the accident.”
That accident almost took his life. It was January 10 of 2006.
Officer Remmel was finishing up at the scene of a routine accident when another driver came along and hit him. The collision severed his right foot and crushed his left leg. It took more than a year of intense physical therapy, 2-hours a day for Remmel to get in shape all on prosthetic legs.
His goal: get his life back and get back on patrol. His biggest obstacle, running 100 yards in 20 seconds, part of the fitness test for street worth officers.
The first day he set foot on a track was February of this year. Last month he did it, he passed that test. You can see how much faster he is on his high tech running legs. Today, Remmel has on his patrol legs and is back on duty.
Remmel is the first double amputee to return to full service with the CHP.
Officer Remmel says “it felt just like the day I graduated the academy and they gave this badge for the first time.”
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