Tustin’s police recruits remain dedicated to agency’s community policing, public safety mission
0Alan Uribe, Kyle Meyer and George Marin, despite their youth, are old-style police recruits. All three still believe in the honor of the profession and the crime fighting and public safety mission. And yet the recruits of the Tustin Police Department also understand they will enter a far different world of law enforcement and engagement than they had imagined. Paradigms and policies are shifting. Words like “defund” have entered the lexicon. Unrest roils and percolates just below the surface. The motto “protect and serve” isn’t so simple anymore. These days, police find themselves front and center in a growing and…
When Tustin’s K-9 is chasing a suspect or the SWAT team is called out to respond to a high-risk situation…
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Officers train for it all — the interactions with the public that are light and uplifting often juxtapose with the…
Three days a week, Rich Ruedas is at Tustin PD before the sun comes up. That’s when the black-and-whites are…