The Phoenix Police Reserve: A Centennial of Service

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DEDICATION As a group, reserve police officers are very dedicated volunteers. Some reserve police officers have served for more than 40 years. Many others have more than 20 and 30 years of service. Reserve police officers also make very substantial time commitments to the police department. Some have donated more than 1,000 hours of police services annually, and others have more than 25,000 total hours of reserve police officer service. In 1988, one reserve police officer worked 2,252 hours, which is a historical record for the Phoenix Police Reserve. By comparison, a paid career officer works 2,080 regular hours in a year. Most often, reserve police organizations are measured in terms of duties performed and hours worked. However, the Phoenix Police Reserve has made extraordinary contributions to the community, not only monetarily, but in real human and personal terms, and as an important component of community policing. Reserve police officers are outstanding law enforcement ambassadors to the community, and they are able to connect and interact with the community in a unique way. When they finish their police shifts, reserve police officers return to their homes and established careers, as citizens living and working in the community away from daily police work. Reserve police officers also provide career police officers with an enhanced insight into the Phoenix community and its residents. Since 2007, reserve police officers have donated more than 365,000 hours of police services, valued at approximately $21 million. Over the years, the accomplishments and achievements of reserve police officers have been mostly invisible, because they perform just like career police officers. They wear the same police uniform, they drive the same police vehicles and they seamlessly respond to the same calls for service. Citizens who are served by reserve police officers, including those whose lives have been saved, are often not aware that those police services were provided by volunteer reserve police officers. 54 THE PHOENIX POLICE RESERVE | A CENTENNIAL OF SERVICE
DIVERSITY Currently, there are 106 reserve police officers and 12 reserve police recruits in the academy. These men and women are diverse in age and ethnicity, and they have come from many professional and occupational backgrounds, including stockbrokers, salespersons, professors, bankers, physicians, business owners and managers, engineers, firefighters, attorneys, mortgage brokers, graphic printers, chaplains, commercial airline pilots, real estate brokers, city employees, technology managers and engineers, members of the military and many other professions. There are three diverse categories of citizens who become reserve police officers. First, are the men and women with established careers who do not want to pursue a fulltime career in law enforcement, but who want to serve the community as reserve police officers. Next are the citizens interested in law enforcement as an eventual career, and they work as reserve police officers to further explore and confirm their interest. Often, many of these reserve police officers subsequently transition to become career police officers with the police department. Finally, many career police officers who are retiring from the police department have transitioned to become reserve police officers to continue to experience the rewards of law enforcement and serving the community on a part-time, volunteer basis. THE PHOENIX POLICE RESERVE | A CENTENNIAL OF SERVICE 55
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Page 5 and 6: INTRODUCTION The history of the Pho
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Page 23 and 24: On October 31, 1942, the special of
Page 25 and 26: The Development of the Modern Phoen
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