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Memorial honors life of Alice Chandler, OC’s first female deputy
Anyone listening to Alice Chandler talk about her life would probably think she tends to exaggerate. After all, how many…
Westminster adds first woman to SWAT team
Westminster Police Department Detective Marcela Lopez approaches policing from a couple of different perspectives: first, as a woman, and second,…
Westminster Police Department’s financial crimes/fraud detectives have a new device to add to their crime-fighting toolbox in their work against…
The Westminster Police Department patrol vehicle fleet is going greener. In the coming weeks, the department is set to receive…
Sixty-pound, 9-year-old Dutch shepherd Clyde became Santa Ana Police Officer Ryan Shifflett’s partner five years ago. And now, after 14…
At 85 pounds, Santa Ana Police Department K9 and Belgian Malinois Kuno evokes a very specific image: Marmaduke. “That’s what…
Sandy Kim was not long out of college when she came across an Anaheim police officer who was taking a…
It was a dispatch call the Bakersfield Police Department’s K-9 unit had received before. On Tuesday, April 27th a vehicle…