Wichita Police
In order to get my car registration renewed in Arizona without getting the emissions test, I had to have a police officer here sign a paper saying that the car is here in Kansas. I went down to the Wichita police station to get it signed. When I first gave the paper to the lady at the desk, her exact word were “I’m going to have to go get a real officer.” I was about to burst out laughing but thought it was better to remain quiet. Anyways, she ended up coming out of the back and telling me that the city police can’t do that. She said some B.S. about the Kansas Highway Patrol taking care of inspections and all of that. I told her that the Arizona law says that I can have any police officer sign it. Apparently Arizona places faith in police officers as being responsible and honorable enough to take care of it. But the Wichita police apparently don’t think of themselves as real police officers able to sign such a paper. When I was starting to get angry she told me she had worked there for 22 years.
When I went to the highway patrol station the next day, a very friendly and professional officer took care of it for me in about 1 minute. I asked him about the Wichita police and he said it sounds like they just didn’t want to do it and pointed out to me that it says right on the paper that any officer could sign it.
The whole thing was a waste of my time and gas and it was all because of the police shirking their responsibilities.