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Westminster Police Department welcomes new hires, celebrates promotions at annual swearing-in ceremony
The room at the Westminster Rose Center was filled with police officers, employees, their families and friends from neighboring agencies…
GPS technology allows Tustin police to swiftly track, arrest thieves
It was 2:30 a.m. when the Tustin Police Department got the alert: a bottle of cough syrup tagged with a…
The veteran officer’s brown eyes widen. “We all have a story to tell,” John Ema says. Ema doesn’t want to…
Her world imploded in slow motion. It was an incremental collapse into homelessness. First, her sister died, leaving behind an…
Cameron Knauerhaze walks in to the dispatch center to offer coffee for those who will field 911 calls over the…
The first thing you need to know about that unforgettable day is this: It was hot. Humid, too. It was…
He thought of his own kids, and how happy he was seeing them as newborns. That’s what was going through…
Police officers have a number of tools at their disposal to protect themselves – and the public – from dangerous…