Friday, June 8, 2012
Murphy, who has been with the department almost 50 years, shares his memories as a volunteer officer.
Editor's Note: This is the fourth of four articles from a series of interviews with some of the Mendota Heights Police Department's most experienced officers. The series will run this week, in honor of the department's 50th anniversary. The Mendota Heights Police Department was established 50 years ago, and part-time patrol officer Jerry Murphy has been with the department for almost as long. “It’s been a good ride,” said Murphy. Not long after the MHPD was created, Murphy responded to multiple emergency incidents, such as fires and inclement weather, as a citizen. It was then that Mendota Heights’s original chief of police, Marty Baldwin, recruited Murphy as the department’s first volunteer officer. Today, Murphy oversees the MHPD Reserve…
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Thursday, June 7, 2012
The Mendota Heights chief of police reflects on his near-decade with the department.
Editor's Note: This is the third of four articles from a series of interviews with some of the Mendota Heights Police Department's most experienced officers. The series will run this week, in honor of the department's 50th anniversary. Nine years ago, chief of police Mike Aschenbrener left his department of 20 years in Forest Lake to work for Mendota Heights, joining a very different department than the Mendota Heights Police Department of today. During his near-decade as chief, Aschenbrener has made a conscious effort to increase citizen involvement in Mendota Heights. Developing the department’s volunteer base through the Reserve Officer program, which began in 2009, has been a particularly high priority for Aschenbrener. This kind of …
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Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Garlock describes his 33 years on the force.
Editor's Note: This is the second of four articles from a series of interviews with some of the Mendota Heights Police Department's most experienced officers. The series will run this week, in honor of the department's 50th anniversary. When Patrol Sergeant Neil Garlock transferred to the Mendota Height Police Department from his previous position as chief of police in Alta, Iowa, he was among the younger officers in the department. 22 year later, he is the oldest fulltime officer on staff. Garlock, a former marine, has seen the MHPD shift from a department of older officers with military backgrounds to a young, college-educated crew. “A lot of those guys were prior military with no college,” said Garlock, of his colleagues from the early …
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