Police Chief Perez Introduces 11 new Police Officers and Trainees

Bringing the number of new officer hires to 70 over the last three years, Pasadena Police Chief John Perez introduced eight new police officers and three new trainees to the Public Safety Committee Wednesday.

“These new hires come from thousands of applicants over the last three years,” said Chief Perez. “They are the best of the best.”

Perez added, “We are not just recruiting, we are not just training, we are not just retraining, but in many ways we are ‘untraining’ the years and decades of policing that we are going after to really become a better police department, so all of our people have an understanding of what we do, how we do it and especially why we need to do it, and they have a personal investment in our community.”

The newly sworn officers are Carlos Martinez, Roy Alatorre, Jiwon Kim, Michael Greene, Aracely Preciado, Osvaldo Cervantes, Eduardo Carlos, and John Duggar.

The new trainees are John Severino, Taisyn Crutchfield, and Osi Negrete.