For the 25th year, in December, Reserve Police Officer David Bush was Santa Claus, visiting Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles with Chief of Police Michel Moore and dedicated reserve and full-time officers. A young lady set up a manicure shop in her room, and business was booming! The officers visited more than 60 young patients. 

Hollywood Area Reserve Coordinator and Police Officer III Jonathan Johnson has been documenting the history of the HWD reserves. He created the “Wall o’ Reserves.” He also added a plaque under the portrait of Reserve Officer Berndt Schine, which hangs on the station’s stairway wall. The plaque is of a news story about the small plane crash that killed Schine and his parents in 1996. The portrait was originally hung by Officer Peter Repovich, who was the reserve coordinator when…

Academy Class 1-20R gifted a sign, purchased by classmate Steve Robinson, to place on a storefront in the tactics training village at the LAPD’s Davis Training Facility. It will now be a coffee shop named “The Coffee Klatch.”