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About the Santa Ana Police Department
The Santa Ana Police Department has provided
law enforcement services to the community for over 130 years. The Department has 700 employees providing a variety of police
services, in positions as police officers, dispatchers, detention officers, and police service officers. In addition to the Office of the Chief of Police, the Santa Ana Police Department is organized into five
bureaus: Administrative Bureau; Field Operations Bureau; Investigations Bureau; Jail Bureau; and, Technology and Support Bureau.
Source:
ci.santa-ana.ca.us/pd/aboutSAPD.asp
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In 1999, a former Santa Ana Police Department (California) police officer,
Victor Paez Torres, wrote Code of Police Silence: Behind the Thin Blue Line. According
to the book description “COPS is a police story set in the late 1970's in the southern California city of Santa Ana,
yet many of the events chronicled could just have well taken place today in any city of America. Author, Victor Paez Torres,
skillfully utilizes symbolism and realism to portray the dynamics of Latino duality and introspection as these Latino cops
endeavor to defeat the beast of racism.”
At the time of publication, Adrian Garcia, National President, National Latino
Peace Officers Association said of the book, “As a nineteen year law enforcement veteran, I find COPS as a very accurate
depiction of the challenges faced by Latino officers in the 1970s. Unfortunately, some of what is mentioned in this book is
still occurring. Hopefully, this book will inspire more Hispanic officers to accept the challenge to be leaders and positive
change agents of their communities and agencies.”
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