Being a police officer can be the most dangerous job — as well as the most rewarding. For one Pooler Police officer, his work speaks for itself.

You have heard the saying at work — that person is on the ‘fast track.’

Officer Nicolas Silva-Brown, 22, with the Pooler Police Department embodies that statement.

“Started here at 18,” Silva-Brown said.

Inspiration turned into realization

Silva-Brown grew up in Pompano Beach in Broward County, Florida, where a deputy steered him in the right direction. When he moved to Pooler, he said the Pooler Police Department guided him the same way.

“Grew up in Florida in Broward County, Florida, in Pompano Beach. And a deputy kind of steered me in the right way when I was growing up. And when I moved to Pooler, the Pooler Police Department kind of guided me the same way,” Silva-Brown said.

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