title: From the Chief: Frank Commentary on Current Law Enforcement Issues
author: Jerry Boyd MS
description: Jerry Boyd lives in Eastern Oregon and is currently in his 50th year in public safety. He currently serves as the Reserve Commander with a local law enforcement agency and coordinates a five county, regional law enforcement training academy. His career began at age 18 when he served as a Technical Reserve (Communications) with the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department. Later, he moved up the ranks until, in 1981, he was appointed Chief of Police for the City of Coronado California and served in that capacity for ten years. The last five years of his full time law enforcement career were spent as Chief of Police in Martinez, California. In 2003, Jerry and his family re-located to Eastern Oregon; not long after that, he was appointed Director of a Consolidated 9-1-1 Dispatch Center, a position he held for 8-1/2 years until again retiring. Now, as a retired law enforcement officer, Jerry runs the Eastern Oregon Regional Reserved Officer Training Academy. He is the author of Firestone Park: Policing South Central Los Angeles, available at Amazon.com.
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  IT WAS never a good thing to be called into the boss's office. Special Agent
  Jerry Parker sat down in the chair across from his supervisor and took the
  news the way he always did.
  
  
  "I'm being reassigned," he said flatly. He smothered the sigh of resignation.
  Of course he was being reassigned. It had been less than two months since
  they'd had a break on the Stanley Peterson case. Peterson had pled out on the
  Tremaine murder charges so as to give evidence on the El Capitan operation. As
  usual, the bureau deemed Jerry's skills to be of better use elsewhere, now
  that the case was winding up. Just once, he'd like to be part of the team that
  made the arrests instead of always part of the information-gathering system.
  _Always the bridesmaid,_ he thought.
  
  
  Assistant Director Harding cleared his throat, pulling Jerry's attention back
  to the matter at hand. "Look, it's a natural fit. You're already based here in
  San Franci