Antonín Křoustek

"We had to legislate it somehow so that we wouldn't just go somewhere as if we were under a name, so at that time the association had to register with the Ministry of the Interior. Now it's no longer a requirement. And when it got sent in, it's, I don't know, ten pages of describing what we're going to do, how we're going to do it. And then a fortnight later, we got a reply that we couldn't call ourselves 'Don't Be Afraid of the Police' because if someone wants to use the word 'police' they have to have the approval of the Minister of the Interior. You just can't use the word 'police' for yourself. So we got angry that we had been writing this all, so we're not going to call ourselves the 'Don't Be Afraid of the Police' association, we're going to call ourselves 'Don't Be Afraid of the Hairy'. But we felt bad that the kids would make fun of it, so I wrote ten pages to the minister to get his approval. Or was it the police president? Yes, sorry. So we got the approval to be called 'Don't Be Afraid of the Police'."

"Well, now I don't know if I should tell the truth or if I should say some of these phrases here about how I've wanted to be a police officer since I was a kid and wanted to do law and order and all that. I thought of becoming a policeman because I got an offer from the chief of police from Znojmo, if I wanted to be a policeman. So they offered it to me. And this was at the time when I was finishing the industrial school and when I was about to go to the military for two years. So it was kind of a decision that if I went to the police, I would only go to the military for half a year. But again, I could see, of course, that I would get tied down and have to do... I had a feeling even at that time, that yes, I would go in so I wouldn't have to go do the military service. I'll tell you the truth. But I also already had the idea that I had that little bit of experience, that contacts with the police, not that I was doing anything, but I could see that the police officers weren't always doing what I thought they should be doing. So I was like, yeah, I'm going to go out there and try and do that police work the way it should be done, to just give people that really, that help that's sort of being promoted now."