Training
There are still spaces availible for the Counter-Terrorism Training on Friday September 11th 0800-1700
at the Solamar Hotel. Please go to http://www.nlpoaca.com/links/counter-terrorism-class-registration/
to sign up.

Transportation
The transportation schedule for the NLPOA California State meeting in held in San Diego on September 10, 2010 through September 11, 2010 will consist of hourly transportation pick up to and from the San Diego International Airport and Solamar Hotel only.  The schedule will be as follows:

Thursday September 9, 2010- Services will begin at 12:00 pm and end at 5:00 pm.  Transportation services will resume again at 6:00 pm and run until 10:00 pm.

Friday September 10, 2010- Services will begin at 9:00 am and end at 12:00 pm.  Transportation will resume again at 1:00 pm and run until 8:00 pm.

Saturday September 11, 2010- Services will run only from the Solamar Hotel to the San Diego International Airport from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm.

Sunday September 12, 2010- Transportation services will run only from the Solamar Hotel to the San Diego International Airport from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm.

Please have members requiring transportation services during the  above mentioned sheduled times and dates email their arrival times and departure dates to sdmetrotransportation@yahoo.com.

Event Schedule
Thursday September 9th
Check in Solamar Hotel

Friday September 10th
Friday 0800-1600 Counter-Terrorism Class
Friday 1700-2100  Hospitality Room at the Solamar Hotel
Friday, Flux Night club event. 2100-0200

Saturday September 11th
Saturday 0900-1200 California State Meeting and Election
Saturday 1230-1330 Scholarship Luncheon
Saturday 1330-1600  California State Meeting resumes
Saturday 1700-2100 Hospitality Room
Saturday, Other Night club event. (Location TBA)  2100-0200

2010 Golf Flyer

Sign Up To Play August 20, 2010

August 20, 2010, Friday, 7:am the Sacramento Chapter, in partnership with The Sacramento Sheriff’s Toy Project, will be hosting their annual golf tournament at Empire Ranch Golf Club, 1620 Folsom CA 95630.

7:00 am Registration
8:00 am Shotgun Start, Four-Person Scramble Format
$125 Entry Fee per golfer, $500.00 for a foursome

Click here to go to the NLPOA Sacramento website

But Thursday morning, the 52-year-old officer found himself cutting down a woman hanging from a rope dangling from a downtown tree and resuscitating her.

The 71-year-old woman was taken to a hospital. Her condition was not immediately known, but police reported that she was in intensive care and that she may have a broken neck.

Cortez, well known for his charitable work with kids in the city where he grew up, shrugged it off as part of a job he has done for 30 years.

“That’s what we are here for,” he said. “We protect property and save lives. She came back to life. That’s what we are trained to do.”

Juan Torres, a 26-year freight company employee, was walking to his house when he saw the woman hanging from the tree in the 200 block of North Fifth Street. She looked dead. He tried to get her down but couldn’t.

A guy drove by on his bike: “Is that for real?” the biker called out.

“Yes! Help!” Torres yelled. Then he called police.

A block away, Cortez was at a convenience store when he got the radio call about 9:15 a.m. He and his partner, Shawn Rocha, got there a minute later.

The elderly woman was hanging,

ortez said, her feet inches above the ground. A plastic chair was nearby.Cortez grabbed her and lifted. He handed Rocha his pocket knife, and the officer cut her down. They laid her on her back.

They called in the grim news — she was not breathing and had no pulse.

As sirens grew louder, Cortez gave it a shot anyway, shaking her, giving the woman chest compressions to see if he could start her heart again.

At 9:18, her arm moved. She exhaled.

As the paramedics pulled up, the officers yelled out that the woman was alive.

Later, Cortez found out that the woman lived at a nearby independent living home. She was mentally ill, Cortez said, and may have been depressed about plans to move her to another facility, in Santa Cruz.

The rope, other residents at the home told the officers, was used for piñata parties. The kids sometimes used it as a swing.

“It was quick thinking on both officers’ parts,” said Assistant Police Chief Daniel Katz. “Officer Cortez is finishing off an excellent 30-year career in a way that does the community proud.”

Cortez said officers sometimes try to insulate from dangerous calls fellow cops who are on the verge of retiring. But, for some reason, many officers end up finishing their careers quarterbacking dramatic incidents anyway.

One officer was involved in a shootout with bank robbers on his last day. San Jose Officer Paul Dini talked down a suicidal man off a building last year on his last day on the job.

“What are the odds of this happening? It’s just strange,” Cortez said. “And I still have three days left.”

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NLPOA Santa Clara Founding Chapter 35th Anniversary Red Carpet Scholarship Gala

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