Jossiah Brown, 4, sits on a MPD dirt bike with Det. Baker during the Murrieta Police Department 30 year anniversary event. Valley News/Shane Gibson photo
The Murrieta Police Department has been serving the community since Aug. 1, 2002, and the department took to the streets to host an open house celebrating the occasion Monday, Aug. 2.“While much has changed since the initial 25 officers and nine civilian employees began operations Aug. 1, 1992, the department’s culture remains rooted in excellent service delivery and a strong partnership with the community,” the city said in a news release.According to Chief Anthony Conrad, the department’s seventh Chief of Police, the partnership built between the police department and the community is the “personification of community policing” and is the primary reason Murrieta is consistently one of the safest communities of its size in the United States each year, as ranked by FBI
