After 22 years, the City of Orange Cove is getting its own police department.
Chief Frank Steenport will head the operation. He was once the police chief in Huron. Now he brings decades of experience to the small town of Orange Cove. A town surrounded by Orange Groves where the Spanish population outnumbers non-Spanish speakers 80 to 20.
There will be 11 fulltime officers, including the chief. 9 of the officers will be bilingual.
The move to a new police department will cost roughly 1.2 million dollars a year. It cost the city nearly a million dollars a year to contract with the Fresno County Sheriff’s Department.
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July 30, 2010
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