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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…
The grateful mother’s eyes widened as she took in the bounty of Christmas gifts. “It’s too much,” Lidiaalondra Orosco said…
Being married to a first responder is tough — especially when both spouses work as first responders and juggle a…
Every graduating class from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Academy (LASD) participates in a “Colors Run” as a way…
When Santa rolled into the parking lot of the Westminster Walmart, he came not with eight tiny reindeer, but a…
More than 1,000 vehicles passed through the La Habra Police Department’s recent DUI checkpoint, leading to five arrests. The checkpoint…
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco took a firm stance over the weekend by posting to Twitter about a local Starbucks…