The Palomar College Police Academy has been chosen for a pilot program that will give greater emphasis to physical and mental fitness in training the state’s future law enforcement officers.
Oceanside Police Chief Kedrick Sadler has retired after nearly two years in the position and more than 20 years with the department, the city announced. Assistant Police Chief Taurino Valdovinos is Sadler’s replacement.
The San Diego County Sheriff’s Office is working with its law enforcement partners to monitor intelligence and information related to any possible threats on Election Day. Currently, authorities do not have any credible threats to San Diego County communities.
Oceanside authorities are looking into recent attacks against homeless people in the city, including two deaths, after three incidents over the past month, the Police Department announced Tuesday, Oct. 8.
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating an emergency plane landing in Oceanside on Thursday, Sept. 26, that led to the discovery of a large amount of narcotics, authorities reported.
Local and state authorities notified 25 people about the ramifications of buying alcohol on behalf of those under age during a Shoulder Tap operation in Encinitas earlier this month, the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department announced Friday, March 15.
Fifteen years after the Escondido Police Department first experimented with body-worn cameras, and 10 years after protests in Ferguson, Missouri, sparked national interest, the technology has become vital to modern-day law enforcement operations. Add to that a new challenge — a controversial artificial intelligence program being used to review the mountains of video and audio.
The Carlsbad Police Department will see a change of leadership in the next couple of months as Chief Mickey Williams prepares to retire, the city announced Thursday, Feb. 15.
A woman was hit and killed by a train in the Encinitas community of Cardiff on Saturday, Feb. 10, the fourth such fatality along North San Diego County tracks since the start of the year.
