That's awesome.... I'm glad everything worked out for you fellas...
here's another story for you. Back around 2002 I just took over a shift as a Sergeant. Prior to my being assigned to the shift, an officer on the shift was involved in a single car wreck. He was driving to a call and was going to fast for the road way, was distracted by his computer and ended up going up into a yard and hitting the garage of a house. He was looking at about 5-10 days off because it was his 2nd fault collision in 12 months. During the investigation he said he was going code 3 (lights and sirent). He had gotten in trouble before for driving too fast going code 2. As the investigation progressed the resident of the house said he/she was sitting in his/her upstairs living room with the window open when he/she heard a crash and felt the house shake.
Interviewed a person walking down the road and they remembered a cop car passing, lights on, no siren, looking down at the computer screen.. then heard a crash and saw the cop car in the side of the garage.
Another person was driving opposite direction as the officer, window cracked, saw lights.. heard no siren.
Officer swore he had his siren on and went into great detail about how he reached down after the crash and turned off the siren...
So we have an officer saying he had his siren on.. 3 independent witnesses saying they heard no siren. They had no reason to lie, he had what he thought was a reason to lie. What would have been days off for driving and remedial training ended in his termination during the discipline hearing because he would not come clean.
Similar story 2012. Fired an officer for lying about using his badge to get discounted tickets to a movie. I can't speak for all departments, all chain of commands but I can say I believe my department strives to identify cops with integrity issues and seperate them from the department because that isn't what we believe in. We're supposed to be the good guys.