Behind the Badge
Meet the Department: APD Detention Facility staffers excel at critical work out of spotlight
0The correctional officer raps on the door of the cell. “Bring your trash out,” Ernesto Cendejas tells the inmate. “Then you’ll get your food.” Later, Cendejas books a 17-year-old arrested on suspicion of a fatal DUI. “Take your socks off inside out, do not shake them,” he tells the teen. “Let me see the bottoms of your feet. Wiggle your toes.” The minor happens to be a Servite High School student playing the part of a drunk driver who is being filmed for an upcoming “Every 15 Minutes” school program. A couple of minutes later, Cendejas puts the teen in…
Cops from four O.C. agencies joined law enforcement departments throughout the county to take to the streets Friday and engage…
Police officers wear many hats these days. Depending on the situation, they might have to be “a counselor, a psychologist,…
Twelve-year old Ivan Lucatero stands on the beach and reflects for a moment on how he normally would spend a…
More than 150 participants in the Anaheim Police Department’s Cops 4 Kids Junior Cadets program fanned out at Riverside National…