In 1974, Sergeant Alfonso Richard
Guerrero, LAPD (ret.), entered the Los
Angeles Police Academy. He graduated
from California University, Los
Angeles with a degree in Political
Science/Pre-law. Immediately after
completing the police academy, he was
assigned to undercover narcotics as a
street buyer. After a year working
undercover, Guerrero was assigned to
the Public Disorder Intelligence
Division and became a deep-cover
police agent infiltrating subversive
organization which espoused the
violent overthrow of the United States
Government.
Three years into his deep-cover
assignment, Guerrero emerged and was
assigned to Wilshire Patrol Division.
After two years working patrol, he was
selected for Metropolitan Division
where he spent the next sixteen years
working crime suppression and was
ultimately selected for SWAT.
Promoting to the rank of Sergeant, he
spent the balance of his
twenty-seven-year career working
Rampart, 77th and
Hollenbeck Areas.
Once he retired from the Los Angeles
Police Department, he became a senior
special investigator with the
California Horse Racing Board
regulating the racing industry and
eventually appointed as a Special
Agent with the California Attorney
General's Office investigating
organized crime within the state's
Medicaid program. Lastly, he was
appointed as a Parole Board
Commissioner with the Board of Parole
Hearings where I chaired parole panels
that granted or denied parole to
inmates throughout the state.
Sergeant Alfonso Richard Guerrero is
the author of No Gun, No Badge:
The Amazing Adventures of Matt Perez:
From Deep-Cover Cop to SWAT in 70s-90s
L.A.