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(A place for stuff that doesn't follow a category, or items previously posted)

See anything strange?

"to protect and to serve" - The original LAPD slogan continues to be misquoted. I've had reports kicked back for less.

THE PATCH

An evolution. That square patch, with the tab? What were they thinking. It was bland, poorly made and uninspiring for it's 6 year run. The tab at the bottom coincided with the portion of land that Lake Compounce occupies on what was once part of Southington. More often it was considered a pull-tab by criminals.
Redesign to the current day patch took place in Training Lt's office. In 1986 Lt DiVenere, Peter Barton and David Carello worked on it jointly to come up with a masterpiece. At the time of the square patch and before it the half moon, the American flag was worn on the right shoulder and patch on left. The push was for a 2 patch arrangement but no one wanted the flag gone thus the inclusive design was born. It featured the American flag on the left, state flag on the right, city seal in the middle and an eagle encompassing everything from the top. Nice job.

More on patch history, origins, designs and examples to be posted at a later time.

It is with sadness to report that James Kirschner passed away 4/13/14.
His obituary is shown here from an online site. (photo added)
- RIP Kirsch.

* Click speaker to hear Kirchner. - 1 Clip as 4z, 2nd as oic years later.

"If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead."
- Johnny Carson

NORM BELANGER

Norm Belanger passed away recently as most of you know.
He retired as Captain in 1985 after many years with the department. RIP Norm.

* Click speaker to hear Norm (Shift Commander) on Feb 5, 1978
as he looks for overtime volunteers during the historic blizzard

FL is the place to be -if you can swing it .. Myself and Russ James thought up an easy solution to the icy road problems we heard about.. then it got stupid.

Joe Nocera hit with shotgun blast in connection with a kidnapping.
Full Story (repost from original vtxpress/val BPD webpage)

Nice old document. Great scan quality.. looks like the paper is painted on the screen

This is an oldie. You should recognize one of them.

"cartoon" postings used to be a regular thing.. had to be there to understand this one.. (haa!)

The BPD Retirees version of a Sgt. Pepper album cover --here's a group of some retirees then/now.
The longer they've been retired the more interesting. I sourced older versions where I could.

thanks for tuning in