Clearlake Police Department welcomes new members
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CLEARLAKE, Calif. – At the Clearlake City Council meeting on Thursday, Dec. 13, in front of a large crowd, Police Chief Andrew White swore in four new employees and one newly promoted employee.
For many years the Clearlake Police Department has operated with just one lieutenant.
Chief White is beginning to reorganize the police department with one of the first steps being the promotion of Sgt. Tim Hobbs to lieutenant.
Among his new duties, Lt. Hobbs will be responsible for support services, including Code Enforcement and Animal Control.
In addition to swearing in Lieutenant Hobbs, Robert West was sworn in as a police officer, Garrett Copas was sworn in as a Code Enforcement officer, Sabrinna LaCoy was sworn in as a police dispatcher and Charmaine Weldon was sworn in as a kennel technician.
“This is a very important day for the Clearlake Police Department as we are adding officers and employees at all levels within the police department,” said Chief White.
On Friday White also administered the oath to Steven Diaz, a new police officer, at his police academy graduation.
With the addition of Diaz, “We will be up to fully budgeted staffing in all areas of the police department for the first time in quite a while,” White said.
“This is a very exciting way to finish out the calendar year for the city of Clearlake. Congratulations to Lt. Hobbs for promoting into this important command staff position,” said City Manager Greg Folsom.
“We continue to add quality personnel throughout our police department and we are pleased to have Officer West, Dispatcher LaCoy, Code Enforcement Officer Copas and Kennel Technician Weldon join our Clearlake team. With the addition of these new staff members we will be working hard in 2019 to make Clearlake a cleaner, safer city,” Folsom said.