Behind the Badge
Experience, expertise, and passion: Bakersfield Police Department offers a chance to a second career
0Samah Barakat celebrated her 40th birthday in the most unforgettable way – fulfilling her dream of becoming a police officer as a recruit in the Bakersfield Police Academy. On that day there weren’t any banners or black helium balloons that read “Over the Hill.” If anything, having a milestone birthday while in the middle of accomplishing a dream made her feel anything was possible, no matter how many candles were on her birthday cake. “I’ve wanted to be a police officer all of my life. I used to watch American television shows when I was a kid and I thought…
Bakersfield Police Department continues to expand its Investigations Division as the need for critical minds who can research crime trends…
“Think of it as a controlled chaos,” is one analogy Westminster Police Department Communication Supervisor Kristen Kannard uses to describe…
As a marine, Paul Madriz believed in the motto” leave the place better than you found it.” As a Recruit…
Aimee Rivera wants to serve her hometown as a police officer, and the recent college graduate hopes her law enforcement…