foreign [Music] ly I'm with the sapd so I'm a patrol officer I assigned to highway traffic units officer Finley is passionate about being an officer it's my goal in every single call is to make that positive impact officer fodly has proudly served the San Antonio Police Department for more than two years me as a police officer behind that Shield there is a human inside me that want to help the community and want to build that bridge and maintain it behind the badge officer fodly holds an incredible story of bravery and heroism there is a multiple reasons that I want to be a police officer one of the reasons is just to repay back the debt that I owed to the American people officer fodly was born and raised in Baghdad Iraq the American people who are the one who opened their house to me which is their country they supported me they provided me with everything that I needed when I was in Iraq prior to coming to the United States officer fodly served as a linguist for the Army during operation Iraqi freedom back in the day and being a linguist it was very dangerous and a job there was a lot of activities and terrorists or activities while they came to the U.S Jersey before coming to Antonio after that I was also deployed again as a as a contractor and from 2016 until 2018 and I worked this time with the marine and poor and I was able to assist them with their fight against Isis for fodly serving has always been in his heart this is one of the reasons that I want to be a police officer is to give back or pay back I would love to be there for the people who need it because back home when and when we needed the people there were no one really helping us and I totally understand while patrolling the streets as a pro patrol officer thought they began giving away gifts to children I used to have gifts inside my vehicle and I used to hand their gifts even in traffic stop it's a calling he picked up while working alongside American soldiers the idea of giving a gift to the children is just basically trying to make those kids happy since October or November of last year I was able to hand more than 300 gifts to children who I either get encounter with in my area of responsibility or whenever I go to call and I see a children at least I will like to hand them something and that will leave a positive impact on them officer fodly is grateful to be serving the city he now calls home he has this message for San Antonio thank you so much for letting me be part of their Community I also want to thank you so much for helping us supporting us and together we will work side by side to make San Antonio a safer place [Music]