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…
Aimee Rivera wants to serve her hometown as a police officer, and the recent college graduate hopes her law enforcement…
Part of Bakersfield Department’s recruitment process includes a Physical Agility Test that must be passed by all aspiring police officers…
Celebrating National Police Woman Day on September 12th, Behind the Badge got to speak with some of Bakersfield Police Department’s…
“Think of it as a controlled chaos,” is one analogy Westminster Police Department Communication Supervisor Kristen Kannard uses to describe…