Mission to Africa: A Nigerian-born MBPD detective, with help from a colleague, hopes to bring running water to his home village
A trip to Africa by two MB police officers connects communities across the world by Mark McDermott One day in 1995, a 13-year-old girl named Nneka walked from her family’s home in the Nigerian village of Amuyi to a nearby body of water that was part pond, part muddy ditch. She and her 11-year-old […]
About Town: 33 Redondo Beach police officers hired, Coastal Cleanup, Bond forums
City hiring: 177 employees in past year, 33 sworn police officers Diane Strickfaden, Redondo Beach Human Resources Director, reports that, in the past year, 5,362 job applications were processed in the city, with 177 new employees hired. The city has a turnover rate of 12%, she said during a Sept. 10 strategic planning session. “In the […]