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For dispatchers, handling emergency calls is their calling
A call comes in about an elderly man who is covered in blood walking along the sidewalk in an apparent…
Puppuccinos, a police K9, and the public at Westminster’s first Coffee with a K9 event
The Westminster Police Department on March 22 introduced its K9, Dragon, to the public at the department’s first ever Coffee…
A bill introduced this past week would make it a mandatory qualification for police officers to be 25 years of…
In hosting the annual Santa Cop event, which has been providing gifts to Tustin families for more than 30 years,…
The holiday season may have passed, but kids at the Boys & Girls Club of Westminster are likely still enjoying…
Westminster’s Emergency Operations Center has been busy. First came the COVID-19 stay-at-home orders for California in March. Then, it was…
Sitting on a curb in front of a home in a Westminster neighborhood, a disheveled, disoriented homeless woman is being…
First responders are the first on the scene to face challenging, dangerous, and emotionally draining situations. The memories of these…