Dodge’s passion for law enforcement sparked when he was covering a story at the Montgomery County Police Academy a few years ago.

Appearing on “Fox & Friends” Thursday, he told host Ainsley Earhardt: “Just covering a lot of stories about law enforcement and becoming friends with a lot of law enforcement agencies and their workers. And, I realized that that’s what I wanted to do. It was a calling.”

According to Fox 26, by the next class Dodge was in training for the Citizens Police Academy. Dodge graduated, underwent gastric bypass surgery, and started to diet and work out.

At that point, he couldn’t do a sit-up or a push-up.

“I had something I needed to do, wanted to do, had to do,” he told Earhardt.

On Tuesday morning, Deputy Dodge was sworn in and started his patrol duties that evening.

He encouraged those looking to undergo a similar transformation “keep going” and reach for their goals.

“I really am just learning, because I have no experience in law enforcement beforehand,” he explained. “So, it’s all fresh to me. Even at 42 years old learning something new is exciting.”

Metropolitan Police officer Avi Maharaj had reported to a south London home in February last year after the death of a 14-year-old boy who was found hanged at the address.

While guarding the property and waiting for funeral home personnel to arrive, Maharaj used the father’s TV cable account to download four clips worth more than $30, Sky News reported.

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The officer downloaded four clips worth £25.96 on the family’s cable service, but tried to falsify logs to cover his tracks.

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He attempted to cover his tracks by falsifying attendance logs to show that he arrived at the property two hours earlier than he actually did.

The boy’s father – identified in court as Graham Miller – initially believed that the videos had been downloaded by his son, but a call to the cable company uncovered that they were purchased after the boy’s death.

According to prosecutors, the videos were downloaded between 11 p.m. and 11:42 p.m. Maharaj claimed he left the property just before midnight, but the police vehicle he was in remained parked outside the home until nearly 1:45 a.m.

On Thursday, Maharaj, who initially denied the allegations before pleading guilty to fraud by misrepresentation in July, was sentenced to 12 months in jail.

“All right-thinking people would be appalled by your gross lack of decency and respect in indulging yourself at all in those circumstances,” Judge Deborah Taylor said in court, according to Sky News.