KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Knox County Sheriff’s Office was featured on the show, “On Patrol: Live,” but the law enforcement agency was far from being the star.
KCSO announced Friday it would be taping with the show. The show follows a handful of law enforcement agencies around the country. It is hosted and executive produced by Dan Abrams. Abrams and a panel of experts provide minute-by-minute live analysis of police officers' interaction with the public.
Knox County wasn’t featured in the more than two-hour episode until about an hour into the REELZ show on Saturday night. On Friday night, Knox County was featured much later.
Both episodes featured four interactions Knox County Deputy Aaron Johnson had over the weekend. Three interactions were traffic stops and the fourth was a welfare check.
During one interaction, Johnson knew all the people in the car he pulled over from different interactions.
“Didn’t I see you at Weigel’s last week,” Johnson said to one of the people in the car.
One person got arrested for a child support warrant Saturday. Once the interaction wrapped up, Abrams commented that it was “community policing at work.”
During each episode, Johnson asks the people he interacted with if they had drugs on them, each time letting them know they wouldn’t be in trouble for that. During one interaction he said, “I’m not the dope police.”
On Friday, one person was arrested for driving while suspended and another was arrested on a warrant.
On Saturday, Johnson and a couple other officers checked on a man who was sitting on a curb in shorts and a t-shirt in the 30-degree temperatures. The man eventually put on a shirt and pants.
Johnson knew the man from a previous interaction where he was naked in a Checkers and breaking windows. The show never followed up on the interaction.
On Patrol: Live airs Fridays and Saturdays at 9 p.m. on the REELZ network. It can also be streamed on Peacock the next day.
