Behind the Badge
Best of BTB: In what would be a first, Westminster PD seeks recognition of officer who killed himself on local, state, and national memorials
0Editor’s note: As part of our 10th anniversary, Behind the Badge is sharing stories from our archives: This story is from 2019. The two cops sat down for coffee. It was a Friday, Cord Vandergrift’s day off. He knew his good buddy and Westminster PD colleague Tom Richard was spontaneous, so Tom asking Cord to meet him for coffee at Lee’s Sandwiches, near the WPD station, wasn’t out of the ordinary. It was late morning on Friday, Feb. 15, 2013. Cord and Tom spent about 20 minutes chatting. Still raw on their minds was the suicide, less than a year…
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It may not seem like much has changed at the Westminster Police Department, but Deputy Chief Darin Upstill has officially…
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