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Wednesday, May 01, 2013
KMA 438
By Russ Gordon I am sure I speak for all my brothers and sisters in the SFPD in extending our...
Wednesday, May 01, 2013
It's Legacy Time for Gary Delagnes
by Paul Chignell, Legal Defense Administrator, SFPOA At the end of May 2013, Gary Delagnes will...
Wednesday, May 01, 2013
BENEDICTION
By Kent Haruf Reviewed by Dennis Bianchi Kent Haruf was born in Pueblo, Colorado. He graduated with...
Wednesday, May 01, 2013
THE BURGESS BOYS
By Elizabeth Strout Reviewed by Dennis Bianchi Elizabeth Strout has written three best-selling...
Monday, April 01, 2013
The San Francisco Police Department “By the Numbers”
The Chamber of Commerce’s Annual City Beat Survey has been released for 2013. You might remember me...
Monday, April 01, 2013
National Catholic Reporter January 18-31, 2013
Cops, Cons and Grace by Brian Cahill In my retirement I spend most of my time writing. I have...
Monday, April 01, 2013
KMA 438
By Russ Gordon Hope everybody is well.  Lots of capers to report…so here we go for April....
Monday, April 01, 2013
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
By Jonas Jonasson Reviewed by Dennis Bianchi Millions of people read the Scandinavian trilogy...
Monday, April 01, 2013
THROUGH THE EYE OF A NEEDLE
Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD By Peter Brown...
Friday, February 01, 2013
Chief's Corner
Has it really been 18 years between Super Bowls here in the City of Saint Francis? Hard to believe...
Friday, February 01, 2013
Book Review: CAN'T QUIT YOU, BABY
By Ellen Douglas Reviewed by Dennis Bianchi This book, written in 1988, was recommended to me by a...
Friday, February 01, 2013
Book Review: TENTH OF DECEMBER
By George Saunders Reviewed by Dennis Bianchi George Saunders' name carries a great deal of weight...
Friday, February 01, 2013
KMA 438
By Sergeant Russ Gordon During the course of our careers, we sometimes forget our history. ...
Tuesday, January 01, 2013
Close Encounters - The Finale
A few weeks ago, I accompanied a young officer to an interview at the Office of Citizen Complaints...
Tuesday, January 01, 2013
Officer, Protect Thyself
By Martin HalloranSFPOA Vice President I’m sure at one time or another most of us have heard that...
Thursday, November 01, 2012
“DESTINATION: SF”
The Headline of the September 26 Examiner read: “DESTINATION: SF” Unprecedented series of events...
Thursday, November 01, 2012
ASK MIKE…THE RETIREES’ CORNER
RETIREMENT BOARD ELECTION Police Officer Brian Stansbury won the open seat on the CCSF Retirement...
Thursday, November 01, 2012
Police-Fire Post 456 News
“The American Legion is impressed with Congress today. Those who deliberately lie about military...
Monday, October 01, 2012
Police-Fire Post 456 News
“With or without a weapon, Marines are always armed.” Pentagon spokesman George Little, responding...
Monday, October 01, 2012
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
By Sherie WongIngleside Station  Everywhere you look everything is pink. Pink water bottles,...
Monday, October 01, 2012
Close Encounters
We think it is safe to say that those individuals who comprise the criminal-element in San...
Monday, October 01, 2012
Uniformed SFPD and Muni Transit Supervisors all “Ride the Same Bus”
Many parallels in duties and responsibilities Teamwork on the Street Benefits Police Officers,...
Monday, October 01, 2012
Chief's Corner
On September 11 we marked the 11th Anniversary of the attack on the Twin Towers in New York City...
Wednesday, August 01, 2012
Chief's Corner
We entered July without more than a few of the legendary cops that had served for decades as they...
Wednesday, August 01, 2012
Police-Fire Post 456 News
“In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in...
Sunday, July 01, 2012
Police-Fire Post 456 News
“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer” - Ralph Waldo...
Sunday, July 01, 2012
Counsel's Corner - July 2012
This first column begins with a tribute to my friend John Tennant.  San Francisco Police...
Sunday, July 01, 2012
Close Encounters
The woman who coordinated events at the POA Office for the past 34 years, who took care of your...
Friday, June 01, 2012
Close Encounters
It’s been pretty much a common theme throughout Chief Greg Suhr’s column in The Journal that...
Friday, June 01, 2012
Chief's Corner
May is always an exciting month because it is the last month of the school year or, looking at it...
Friday, June 01, 2012
Police-Fire Post 456 News
“All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor,...
Tuesday, May 01, 2012
Chief's Corner
On April 27, 2011, I was sworn in as the 42nd Chief of the San Francisco Police Department. Can it...
Tuesday, May 01, 2012
Close Encounters
On Tuesday, March 27, 2012, there was a surprise retirement luncheon for Captain Henry Parra at...
Tuesday, May 01, 2012
Lions Club International Honors SFPD Officers
On Saturday, April 7th, 2012, the San Francisco Coordinating Council of Lions Clubs, held its...
Tuesday, May 01, 2012
IN MEMORIUM SFPD K-9 "Pitt" Star #39
  July 1, 2002 - April 7, 2012   My husband, SFPD Officer Mark Trierweiler, brought “...
Tuesday, May 01, 2012
Officer Jon C. Cook Scholarship Cocktail Reception
Jon C. Cook Scholarship Cocktail Reception
Sunday, April 01, 2012
Crime Data Warehouse Report Writing Goes Live!
Technology CornerBy Susan GiffinChief Information Officer Officer Ana Lee of Ingleside Station...
Sunday, April 01, 2012
A Few Thoughts about the use of Medications for Law Enforcement Officers.
Joel Fay, Psy.D ABPPPsychologist and Retired Police OfficerForwarded to The Journal by Mary...
Sunday, April 01, 2012
Honoring our Outstanding DEC Dispatchers
To say that our Department of Emergency Management/Department of Emergency Communications...
Sunday, April 01, 2012
KILLING THE MESSENGER: A Story of Radical Faith, Racism's Backlash, and the Assassination of a Journalist
In 1997 Lou Cannon, a journalist, non-fiction author, and biographer (he has authored five...
Sunday, April 01, 2012
A Silence of Mockingbirds: The Memoir of a Murder
As April is National Child Abuse Prevention month, this book is extremely timely. It is also a...
Sunday, April 01, 2012
The Class of 1946-1964: Baby Boomers Re-Evaluate Their Retirement Portfolios and Lifestyle Options Post the Great Recession of 2007
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. Thoreau   Dost thou love life? Then...
Sunday, April 01, 2012
Chief's Corner
I get stopped on the street during my daily travels around this great City of ours, by folks who...
Sunday, April 01, 2012
Police-Fire Post 456 News
“America has a debt crisis, but no debt is higher than what America owes its veterans, who already...
Sunday, April 01, 2012
Pursuit and Arrest
    The pursuit of a fleeing suspect is an inherent danger facing law enforcement...
Sunday, April 01, 2012
SF Law Enforcement Officers to ride in the Police Unity Tour
Several law enforcement officers within San Francisco are participating in the 2012 Police Unity...
Sunday, April 01, 2012
Close Encounters
There were 7 guns taken off the street from the few episodes cited in this column this month....
Thursday, March 01, 2012
Police-Fire Post 456 News
“I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.” Abraham Lincoln        ...
Wednesday, February 01, 2012
Police-Fire Post 456 News
“We had to remind them that you don’t mess with American Marines”     -...
Sunday, January 01, 2012
Police-Fire Post 456 News
“’Safety first’ is the road to ruin in war.” - Sir Winston Churchill, November 3, 1940  ...
Sunday, January 01, 2012
Close Encounters
The National Law Enforcement Officer Memorial Fund reported that as of November 28, 2011, 157 law...
Thursday, December 01, 2011
Police-Fire Post 456 News
Ho-ka hey! It is a good day to fight! It is a good day to die! Strong hearts, brave hearts to the...
Tuesday, November 01, 2011
Police-Fire Post 456 News
“It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where...
Tuesday, November 01, 2011
Close Encounters
By Steve Johnson Not bad when a simple parole search of 2 suspects, who should know better, ends up...
Saturday, October 01, 2011
ASK MIKE…THE RETIREES’ CORNER
By Mike HebelPOA Welfare Officer SOCIAL SECURITY SOLVENCY Q.  Mike, I retired almost six years...
Saturday, October 01, 2011
Close Encounters
The officer received his notice to appear before the Office of Citizen Complaints (OCC), he...
Saturday, October 01, 2011
Depression; Know the Signs
By Ed AnzoreRetired SFPD My name is Ed Anzore and I am a recently retired sergeant out of Central...
Saturday, October 01, 2011
Police-Fire Post 456 News
“We’ve sworn an oath to protect and defend the Constitution. We didn’t join the Marine Corps to...
Thursday, September 01, 2011
Police-Fire Post 456 News
“I want to make it clear to all of you that I shall never give the order ‘abandon ship’, the only...
Thursday, September 01, 2011
Close Encounters
The San Francisco Police Department recently announced that it would be taking applications for the...
Monday, August 01, 2011
San Francisco Police-Fire Post 456
by Greg Corrales “Fight” Response by Edward O’Toole to the question printed in the 1940 San...
Monday, August 01, 2011
Helping Our Own
The following members of our law enforcement family need our help: Amanda AmorosoPlease help us...
Monday, August 01, 2011
49th Annual Training Conference - Lexington, Kentucky
International Association off Women Police By Robin MatthewsIAWP Region 10 Coordinator Greetings!...
Monday, August 01, 2011
Ragnar Relay Update Benefiting PAL
PAL is the Ragnar Relay’s designated charity – you can help PAL raise much needed funds!  So...
Wednesday, June 01, 2011
Guardians of the City
by Liane Corrales PROCLAMTION “The federal troops, the members of the regular police force, and...
Wednesday, June 01, 2011
San Francisco Police-Fire Post 456
by Greg Corrales “The 30th day of May, 1868, is designated for the purpose of strewing with...
Wednesday, June 01, 2011
Close Encounters
By Steve Johnson Once again on the 2000 block of Mission Street where Officer Mike Moody, Officer...
Sunday, May 01, 2011
Police-Fire Post 456 News
By Greg Corrales “To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward...
Sunday, May 01, 2011
Close Encounters
By Steve Johnson We’ve admonished criminals many times in this column that if they insist on...
Sunday, May 01, 2011
Nick's Notes
Department Softball in Full Swing CHECK IT OUT:  I heard from Commish Kevin Worrell recently...
Friday, April 01, 2011
Close Encounters
By Steve Johnson Officer Thomas Ly and Officer Ron Meyer knew the woman behind the wheel of the...
Friday, April 01, 2011
Nick's Notes
By Nick Shihadeh,Journal Sports Editor  Northern Station is the Department B-Ball Champion...
Friday, April 01, 2011
Police-Fire Post 456 News
By Greg Corrales “We must not in the course of public life expect immediate approbation and...
Friday, April 01, 2011
ASK MIKE…THE RETIREES’ CORNER
By Mike HebelPOA Welfare Officer BASIC COLA APPROVED FOR 2011-2012 Q.  Mike, in a recent issue...
Friday, April 01, 2011
FALEO’s 1st Annual Birco Scholarship & Tuvera Fellowship Awards Dinner
By Jurnation Reymundo On Friday, March 18, 2011, The Filipino-American Law Enforcement Officers...
Tuesday, March 08, 2011
Widows' and Orphans' Aid Association
The monthly meeting of the Widows and Orphans Aid Association was held in Room 150 at the Hall of...
Tuesday, March 01, 2011
Collective Bargaining Changes: What’s Going On Outside Of Wisconsin
By Will Aitchison While most of the focus at present is on the proposed changes in Wisconsin's...
Tuesday, March 01, 2011
Long Term Investing- Brilliant Deduction: Tax Preparation Tips for Police Officers
Death and taxes are inevitable. – Haliburton The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose...
Tuesday, March 01, 2011
First results from ongoing survey of officers who survive wounds
Force Science® News Chuck Remsberg Editor-in-Chief Forwarded to the Journal by Michael Nevin The...
Tuesday, March 01, 2011
Helping Our Own
The following members of our law enforcement family need our help: Frankie Shouldice Frankie is the...
Tuesday, March 01, 2011
A Message from the Sergeant-at-Arms
Let Me Introduce Myself By Joe Valdez First, I would like to thank Steve Landi, Larry Chan, Troy...
Tuesday, March 01, 2011
Police-Fire Post 456 News
By Greg Corrales "All I asked for was to be given a warrior's death" Staff Sergeant Clay...
Tuesday, March 01, 2011
Gone Way Too Soon: The Passing of Lance Heivilin
On Friday, January 28, 2011, the San Francisco Police Department lost a civilian member that,...
Tuesday, February 08, 2011
Widows' and Orphans' Aid Association
The monthly meeting of the Widows and Orphans Aid Association was held in Room 150 at the Hall of...
Saturday, February 05, 2011
Widows and Orphans
The regular meeting of the Widow’s and Orphan’s Aid Association of the San Francisco Police...
Tuesday, February 01, 2011
Close Encounters
By Steve Johnson We conducted an on-line survey on the SFPOA Website asking officers how they felt...
Tuesday, February 01, 2011
San Francisco Police-Fire Post 456 News
“In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.”- Croesus Many...
Saturday, January 01, 2011
Police-Fire Post 456 News
“And how can man die better, Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, And the...
Saturday, January 01, 2011
Seven-Pointed Star of the San Francisco Police Department
By John Murphy The Officers of the San Francisco Police Department have been wearing the seven-...
Saturday, January 01, 2011
Widows and Orphans
The regular meeting of the Widows' and Orphans' Aid Association of the San Francisco Police...
Wednesday, December 01, 2010
Police-Fire Post 456 News
By Greg Corrales “The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand...
Wednesday, December 01, 2010
Western States Police and Fire Games
Track and Field 2010 By Alex Jackson, Airport Bureau (Ret.) To the officers who inquired: Yes, I...
Wednesday, December 01, 2010
Close Encounters
By Steve Johnson We left off last month with a critique, of sorts, of the 3rd Quarter Report...
Tuesday, November 02, 2010
Close Encounters
You simply have to read the quarterly report submitted to the Police Commission by the Office of...
Monday, November 01, 2010
Guardians of the City
“Ain’t they virtuous? Don’t they take good care of the City? Is not their constant vigilance and...
Monday, November 01, 2010
Police-Fire Post 456 News
By Greg Corrales “It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man...
Friday, October 01, 2010
Deaths
The POA Journal was notified* of the recent deaths of the following SFPD members, non-sworn...
Friday, October 01, 2010
In the Name of Honor
By Richard North Patterson Reviewed by Dennis Bianchi Richard North Patterson has repeatedly...
Friday, October 01, 2010
San Francisco Police-Fire Post 456 News
By Greg Corrales “He which hath no stomach for this fight, let him depart. We would not die in...
Wednesday, September 01, 2010
Jeff Barker Scholarship Awards
The annual Jeff Scholarship Awards were presented in late August to dependents of active, retired...
Wednesday, September 01, 2010
Close Encounters
You will soon have the opportunity to participate in a survey we are working on right now that...
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Widows' and Orphans' Aid Association
The regular meeting of the Widows' and Orphans' Aid Association of the San Francisco Police...
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