Frank Wilkins joined the Redwood City Police Department as a patrol officer on April 25, 1988. He progressed through various positions in that department and was promoted to sergeant on February 3, 1992 (the fastest promotion to sergeant in the history of the Redwood City Police Department). During seven of […]
Officer Burky Worel is a 25-year veteran of the Vallejo Police Department. For 10 years he served as president of the Vallejo Police Officers Association and has been a member of the PORAC Board of Directors for four years. In his role as a union official, he frequently clashed with […]
In an immediate decision from the bench after a three hour trial, a Washoe County Justice of the Peace found Washoe County Airport Authority Officer Mike Boyd not guilty of battering an employee of a security service at the Reno-Tahoe International Airport. The case arose when an employee of ITS […]
Officer Miguel Bin, a Los Angeles Unified School District officer, was a school resident officer most of his career. After the academy, for his on-the-job training, he was assigned to a specific campus, where the majority of his transactions were over a local, walkie-talkie, rather than the main police radio […]
Within hours of the incident at Congressman Frank Riggs’ Eureka office, state, national and international news media were broadcasting a thirty second taped “bite” from the last part of a forty-five-minute stand-off between Humboldt County Sheriff’s Deputies, Eureka Police Officers and a group of protesters. Following the filing of a […]