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Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office Lieutenant Graduates from the FDLE Senior Leadership Program

May 24, 2024, Lieutenant Debra Knighton graduated from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement Senior Leadership Program. The graduation took place at the FDLE headquarters in Tallahassee. The gra... Read More
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Meet Oxnard Police Department Officer Patrick Blanche!

Officer Blanche was born in Savannah, Georgia and raised in Ridgecrest, California until his family came to Ventura County in 1997. He worked as an ATA Taekwondo Instructor, Taco Bell Team Member, Me... Read More
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Meet Oxnard PD Corporal David Castillo!

Meet Oxnard Police Department Corporal David Castillo! Corporal Castillo was born in Camarillo and raised in the Port Hueneme / South Oxnard area. He attended E.O. Green Jr. High and Hueneme High Sch... Read More
Oxnard Police Department Corporal David Castillo

Meet Sergeant Bryan Smith

“I started flying when I was 16 in gliders and have wanted to be a pilot since I was in preschool.” Sergeant Bryan Smith made his preschool dream a reality and now has more than 18 years of law enf... Read More
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Meet Oxnard Police Department Officer Brenden Hawn!

Officer Hawn was born in Manhattan, Kansas, and lived there for a few short years before moving to the Denver, Colorado area. He lived in Denver for most of his childhood and ultimately moved to the ... Read More
Oxnard Police Department Officer Brenden Hawn

Helping to keep offenders on the right track through their alternative sentencing or diversion program are members of the Alternative Sentencing Unit (ASU) like Deputy Terry O’Reilly.

Deputy O’Reilly is a deputy within ASU and also serves as a member of the Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) Team. The ASU supervises pre-arrest, pre-trial, and sentenced offenders who are r... Read More
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