Behind the Badge
For new Westminster Police Chief Mark Lauderback, it’s the little things that go a long way
0Westminster’s new police chief is a black-and-white kind of guy. In late 1993, when Mark Lauderback was putting himself through the police academy at Golden West College, two agencies took an interest in him. The Westminster PD started processing him and was conducting a background investigation when a hiring freeze hit. We’ll hire you as a reserve, the WPD told Lauderback. But he wanted a full-time job. Luckily for him, the Chino PD also picked him up. “So as Chino was doing a background check,” Lauderback recalls, “Westminster calls up and says, ‘Hey, guess what? We’ve got permission to hire…
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