Behind the Badge
A female officer relatively new to the job at the Anaheim PD talks about her profession to mark Women’s History Month
0With Women’s History Month wrapping up this March 2020, Behind the Badge recently sat down with one of the Anaheim PD’s newest female officers to share her perspective on being a woman in law enforcement. Officer Brooke Phipps, 32, started her career at the APD as a police officer trainee in January 2018. She now works the weekend (Thursday, Friday, Saturday) graveyard shift out of the APD’s East Substation in Anaheim Hills. Thirty-two of the APD’s 391 officers are female – 8 percent. While still on probation last year, Phipps ran the Baker to Vegas race as a member of…
The Anaheim Police Department’s Crime Analysis Unit delves deeply into data, mining for information that can help catch criminals. The…
No stranger to the TV cameras, Anaheim PD PIO Sgt. Daron Wyatt recently was featured on a prime-time crime show,…
Police officers face a multitude of stressors, from physically demanding and long work days, to life-threatening confrontations with criminals, to…
Mike Price, a 20-year resident of Anaheim, ventured out Friday evening, June 29, to grab some carne asada for dinner…