| Initiated by Chief George Tielsch, Class #43 of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Academy included the first group of Santa Monica Reserve Police Officers. This class started in August of 1976. The Academy was hard, with
class members running hills almost every day of the class, but the first formally trained class was underway.
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| The Program was put together by Sergeant Robert Oliver. Bob did all the footwork and lain the groundwork for what the Reserve Forces are today.
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| The current Reserve Police Officer Corps is comprised of a group of highly trained professionals who have been through an extensive selection process comparable to that of the Department’s full-time police officers, and a vigorous, extensive academy training program. Our Reserve Corps is governed and monitored by the California Police Officer Standard of Training (POST).
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| Our current Corps consists of twenty-three (23) non-designated Level 1 officers, two (2) females and twenty-one (21) males. The oldest is 68 years and the youngest is 21 years with the average being 44.5 years. Our Reserve Police Officers come from various fields. They run the gamut from computer programmers/consultants, law enforcement support personnel, service representatives, and even homemakers.
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| Though during the first eight years many hours were donated by the Reserve Police Officers, records of those hours were not kept. However, records for the last thirteen years show approximately eighty thousand (80,000) hours have been donated to the Police Department.
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This page was last modified on
01/26/2008
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