12 Officers Join City’s Police Force
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This city, ranked one of the safest in the nation, may be even safer now that 12 new police officers have been sworn into duty.
Irvine Police Chief Charles Brobeck conducted a formal ceremony last week to install the new officers. He also introduced six police recruits who will become officers in July when the city allocates money to hire them in its 1997-98 fiscal year budget.
The recruits begin training at the Orange County Sheriff’s Department’s Basic Police Academy today. They are expected to graduate on July 18.
Five of the city’s new police officers were hired from other departments. They are Rebecca Biarnesen and Robyn Foreman, from the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department; Fanny Hom and Mike Li, from the Monterey Park Police Department; and Stephen Wolf from the Arcadia Police Department.
Seven others are Jan. 6 graduates of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department’s training program. They are Shiloh Coleman, Carrie Egan, Dave Gross, Dave Klug, Anastasia Pappas, Ami Rzasa and Michael Monroe.
Brobeck said the new officers will fill positions left vacant by retirements and transfers, and help the department meet its quota, for the first time in 10 years, of 138 sworn personnel.
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