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Santa Ana Police Department’s success highlights value of pre-academy
If the Santa Ana Police Department needed affirmation of its decision to create a pre-academy for recruits entering the Orange…
Historic storm highlights importance of preparedness
For a second consecutive year, as climate change continues to redefine expectations about weather, Southern California has been hit with…
Joe Avalos is loving his second career in law enforcement. After retiring from the Orange County Sheriff’s Department after 25…
The holiday season has passed and if you’re a parent and you or Santa left a video game or other…
Hundreds gathered in the Garden Grove Community Center to witness the swearing in of the Garden Grove Police Department’s 14th…
Like the rest of the country, I awaited the release of the video footage from the Memphis Police Department with…
The Tustin Police Department’s newest officers, Lauren Tharp and Chase Bowen, enter police work from two different worlds, yet they…
Deputy Chief Bob Wright is Tustin to the core. He grew up in the area, attended local schools, earned a…