Barstow police officer, Randy Duran, was recently terminated from employment by the chief of police after an investigation into alleged excessive use of force. A dispute arose between a witness officer’s version of what occurred and that of Duran. Further, the suspect who filed a complaint had a version far […]
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 […]