A name change to the Orange County Sheriff’s Katella Training Facility in honor of a former sheriff who died in early January was approved Jan. 26 by the Orange County Board of Supervisors (OCBS). The facility will now be called the Sandra Hutchens Regional Law Enforcement Training Center, in honor of former Sheriff-Coroner Sandra Hutchens. Hutchens died Jan. 4 following an eight-year battle with cancer. She was Orange County’s 12th sheriff and held office from 2008 to 2019. She was succeeded by Sheriff Don Barnes. Barnes spoking fondly of his predecessor during the Jan. 26 OCBS meeting. Barnes said that shortly before he began working for Hutchens, he and other officers were told by someone that worked for her while she was a deputy-sheriff in Los Angeles that “he would crawl through glass” to have the opportunity to work for her again. “That’s something we didn’t understand at the time, but we got …
Police Training Facility to be Renamed in Former Sheriff’s Honor
January 26, 2021
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