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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 some police officers, finding a hobby to decompress from their job can vary from skydiving to running or golfing…
Personal success should be based on what we give, not what we get. That sentiment, shared by motivational speaker Rex…
It’s early in the afternoon when the deputy steps inside a 55-foot-long tractor-trailer that’s been reinforced with ballistic steel panel…
It’s known as “The Farm.” At the James A. Musick Facility in Irvine, some rehabilitative efforts are centered on farm-like…
While new Beverly Hills PD officers Jason Cooke and Berlynn Medina graduated from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Academy…
The 23 graduates from Class 86 of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Basic Correctional Training Academy logged 374 hours over…