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Recruit Training Officer discovers you have to be ‘cruel to be kind’ at Bakersfield Police Department
The first thing you notice about Officer Macarena Garner is she’s about 5 feet tall. Maybe 5’1” when she’s wearing…
Column: Don’t wear sandals to Bakersfield Police Department’s S.W.A.T school
We arrived at Bakersfield Police Department’s S.W.A.T (Special Weapons and Tactics) school tucked away in the outskirts of downtown shortly…
For six months, police recruits of Class 239 were pushed to their limits at the Orange County Sheriff’s Regional Training…
Everyone has a food item that is tied to a special memory. For Anaheim Fire & Rescue (AF&R) Battalion Chief…
La Habra Police Officer Anthony Luster was two hours into his graveyard shift when he changed a family’s life forever.…
Dessie Senegal-Jeffries shot first. No one – least of all Dessie – could believe it. “It was eye-opening,” said Dessie,…
Anaheim PD Sgt. Darrin Lee remembers the student well. “About a year ago, I had an activist in my class,…
Cypress PD Officer Matt Ward loved to laugh, loved his family and loved mentoring Police Explorers. “Matt saw the tremendous…