Behind the Badge
From service to country to service to community: WPD honors its veterans
There are many reasons someone chooses the military, but it seems to draw those with at least one thing common:…
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Into the dark: Officers scour tunnels, flood channels to warn homeless about coming rain
From bright sunlight, they descend into darkness. The four cops ditch their sunglasses for flashlights as they begin trekking through…
Colleagues give belated TIP of the hat to firefighter for his ‘Heroes with Heart’ award
He couldn’t make it to the gala dinner last week to pick up his award, so his colleagues delivered the…
Pedal to the metal: Orange County Auto Theft Taskforce honored for stellar work in 2014
Stealing cars may seem like a straightforward crime, and largely the province of common street thugs. But it’s a crime…
‘Flock’ breast cancer awareness campaign migrates to Fullerton PD HQs for a day
On Wednesday morning, Dan Hughes got flocked. So did the top two members of the Fullerton PD chief’s command staff,…
Keepers of property and evidence critical to Tustin PD investigations
For 16 years, a man served time in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. The facts against Kevin Green…
LHPD honors teen with dreams of becoming cop who died after brain surgery
Luis Guerrero wanted to wear a badge. The 17-year-old knew to become an officer that meant working hard in school…
Trauma Intervention Program honors first responders, nurses as ‘Heroes With Heart’
The room of nearly 400 people fell dead silent when the woman walked up to the microphone to tell a…
These Tustin cops took a swing at an idea, now it’s an international hit
They just wanted to play more. When Tustin PD Lt. Jeff Blair and Sgt. Del Pickney founded PoliceSoftball.com more than…
Sisters, both sexually abused as kids, credit two Anaheim cops for seeing the case through
When the three finally met in a room inside a Texas courthouse in June during a break in a child…