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 […]
A Clovis police officer, with the aid of PORAC Legal Defense Fund attorneys Bennett & Sharpe, Inc., successfully appealed an allegation that he was insubordinate in refusing to attend counseling. The matter began as a domestic quarrel, resulting in a report by the officer’s wife that he had assaulted her. […]