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Best of BTB: A day they’ll never forget: Bakersfield Police Department helps orchestrate memorable proposal
0Editor’s note: As part of our 10th anniversary, Behind the Badge is sharing stories from our archives on Tuesdays and Fridays. This story is from July 9, 2021. Happy Valentines Day! Lieutenant Ryan Kroeker got a call from Bakersfield Police Department’s Community Relations Department with an unusual request: Would he help someone propose to their girlfriend? The police department receives more than 750,000 calls from the community each year, and some of them are requests to attend birthday parties or speak at neighborhood events, but a wedding proposal? It was a first, but Kroeker was intrigued. “I thought this could be a…
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