Links to Law Enforcement Sites

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The OFFICIAL California Highway Patrol website
California Association of Highway Patrol Officers. (Emphasis is mine.)
The California Highway Patrolmagazine ~ "Arresting Reading for 60 Years!"
Washington State Patrol
Florida Highway Patrol
Florida Sheriff's Association
Kansas Highway Patrol
Delaware State Police
Kentucy State Police A recruiting site!
Illinois State Police
Maryland State Police
Pacific Grove Police Department, California One of Monterey County Communications' user agencies.
Marina Department of Public Safety, California Another County Comm 9-1-1 participant.
San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department
North Vancouver RCMP Lots of nice features, including 9-1-1 information.
Canadian Police Information Centre
Morris County Sheriff's Office, New Jersey
Walsh Police Department, Colorado
Visalia Police Department, California
Kearney/Buffalo County Law Enforcement Center, Nebraska
Orange County Sheriff's Office On-Line, Florida
Brevard County Sheriff's Office, Florida
Coos Bay Police Department, Oregon
Snohomish County Deputy Sheriff's Association, Washington
Ringwood Police Department, New Jersey
Wahkiahum County Sheriff's Department, Washington
Labette County Sheriff's Office, Kansas
New York City Police Department
Los Angeles PD, California
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, California
Dallas Police Department, Texas
Battle Ground Police Department, Indiana
Bindal Sheriff Office, Norway In Norwegian or English!
Hampton Police Department, Virginia
Craig Police Department, Alaska
San Gabriel Police Department, California There's even a page in Chinese!!
Shelby County Sheriff's Department, Indiana
St. Helena Police Department, California
Kansas Law Enforcement Online
Pennsylvania State Police
Township of Derry Police Department, Pennsylvania
University of Maine Dep't of Public Safety
Rohnert Park Dep't of Public Safety, California
University of Notre Dame Security/Police
Ira Wilsker's Law Enforcement Sites on the Web Probably THE most comprehensive list!
Community Policing Consortium

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Spencer Boyce's Patch Page Spence works at the same Area Office as my Comm Center!
PHIL KONSTANTIN Home Page Another CHP officer!
Police Employment & Law Enforcement Jobs
Sheriff Brass's Crime Prevention Unit
Bolling's Police Pages
Policing in Herfordshire Check out "The Police Officers Essential Dictionary."
Ron MacKenzie's West Oz Police Page
Law/EMS Links of Ohio
SkyKing's Page
Flemish Police Insignia Collectors Association
The Law Enforcement Web
Bryan Reid's Home Page A Host on AOL's Public Safety Center
Sheps4Me's Home Page She's someone I'd love to meet for real; we exhange e-mail on AOL all the time...
The Bullet Trap
Michael McKenzie's Home Page
The Sub Station for motorcycle enthusiasts...
Rick Plato's Home Page
Chief Gregory C. King, Udall Police Department, Kansas.
CopTalk
Police Badge Network's The Station House
Randy Blizzard's Home Page
Chip's Law Enforcement Page
Det/Cst Rob Etter's Home Page
NetDep's Home Page
The Flash's Police Links
Koeka Bolla - A Cyber Police Officer Patrolling the 'Net
Rendrag's World Be sure to visit "The Patrol Office"
Don Berry's Home Page A sergeant, now retired, but still in contact!
ROCHCop's Home Page
Dave's Police Page
A2Hawkeye's Collector's Page

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Now, in case you're wondering "What does this person really know about Law Enforcement, anyway?" here's my history: In 1973, I completed my Associate of Science degree in Administration of Justice, because I wanted to be a police officer. I was the first female candidate for deputy sheriff in Monterey County, back when it was very difficult to get hired (if you were a woman). The nice deputy running applicants through the physical agility tests informed me that the tests were specifically designed to be difficult for women. ("You didn't hear that from me," he said.) None of the five female applicants passed. However, about that same time, the state of California was looking to bolster its "quota" of female and minority correctional officers.....

In 1976, I managed to get hired as a correctional officer and work at Soledad Correctional Training Facility for a year. This was a terrible time, folks. The Affirmative Action program utilized (at that time, in the early '70s) was very, very unfair. Male officers detested us, the inmates filed law suit after law suit against the "cruel and unusual punishment" of being guarded by women, and the department made all sorts of concessions to hire, retain, and outright coddle female correctional officers. (I'm a woman; I can say this! It's true.) Things have changed a great deal, for the better, but back then, one had to be very resolute to withstand the harassment from all sides. The department paid lip-service to foster the appearance of "equality" but reality was a much uglier picture.

After I was targeted by one ranking individual who got an inmate to "confess" to having had sexual relations with me (yeah, right!!!) I was told to resign or be fired. To make a long story short, I took it to the State Personnel Board and WON, but decided it really wasn't in my best interests to stay working there. (The back pay and punitive damages award was quite nice, though.)

So, in 1977, I started as a 9-1-1 dispatcher in a consolidated Law Enforcement/Fire Service/EMS PSAP (Public Safety Answering Point). I really liked the work! It was for a great deal less pay, but I had a flair for it, and was able to develop strong contacts within the Law Enforcement community. Dispatchers took the calls and directly dispatched the personnel and equipment to those same calls, providing communications service to 11 Law Enforcement agencies, 27 Fire Districts, and 9 ambulance providers, out of two Dispatch Centers.

I was promoted to shift supervisor in 1979, and in 1988, to the position of Communications Supervisor over the entire Monterey Center. As the liaison between the Center and the agencies we served, I attended many meetings with the various agencies to make sure the dispatchers were providing the best service possible.

I re-married in 1990, and we re-located to Southern California in 1991. I had the unenviable position of having to start all over again as an "entry-level" dispatcher with the CHP. And, in 1994, I was able to transfer right back to the CHP Dispatch Center in Monterey county (without my husband). So, here I am again, now working exclusively for a single agency, not 11, or 27, or 9 of them. It has made life a great deal simpler, believe me! My contacts with Allied Agencies have been most beneficial in dealing with various situations related to major incidents where we've worked very closely with the many agencies around us.