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The Vallejo Police Officers’ Association sadly announces the resignation of Captain Jason Potts. Jason resigned to take a position as the Director of Public Safety for the City of Las Vegas. He started his law enforcement career with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection as a border patrol agent. After several years, Jason joined the Vallejo Police Department where he has served his home town for over 22 years. Simultaneously, he also serves as a military reserve special agent with the C...

For Immediate Release - May 25, 2022 Contact: [email protected] and/or (707) 644-3913 Vallejo, CA – The Vallejo 911 Dispatch Center is vital to the function and well-being of the community, and both the Police and Fire Departments.  Dispatchers field every 911 call and dispatch police, fire, and medical from this center.  On average, Vallejo’s dispatchers handle 400-500 calls per day and now routinely work with only two people in the dispatch cente...

Corporal Travis Aspegren has retired from the Vallejo Police Department! We wish him well in the next chapter of life and thank him for his years of dedicated service to the City of Vallejo. Travis came to us in 2014 with years of prior experience from other agencies. He continued to hone his skills and training to become a member of the SWAT Team, Recruiting Team and an instructor in many de-escalation and force option disciplines. He was promoted to Corporal in 2018 and named Officer of t...

The Vallejo Police Officers’ Association has a strong commitment to the youth in our community. As such, we award up to five $500 scholarships to college-bound graduating high school seniors each year. The scholarships are in the names of our fallen officers who made the ultimate sacrifice to the City of Vallejo and its citizens. We remember these officers by naming the scholarships after Officers Calvin Thacker, William Easson Jr., Jeff Azuar and Jim Capoot. In addition, we also recognize Li...

For Immediate Release                                             Contact: May 13, 2022                                                             (707) 644-3913                  ...

On May 11, 2022, the Annual Solano County Police Memorial was held in front of the Solano County Sheriff's Office in Fairfield. As members of law enforcement and the public gathered and lined Union Street, another wonderful tribute to officers killed in the line of duty in Solano County was brilliantly presented. Many were in attendance, including our extended family of Jim Capoot. Jim’s grandchildren (whom he never met) helped place flowers on the memorial plaques mounted to the granite s...

You may have read about the loss of four (4) Vallejo officers to resignation and retirement recently. This is happening at a much higher frequency as of late. Losing four officers in rapid succession (Ehman, Williams, Davis and a trainee) is a big loss. This brings staffing to a low of 84 sworn members. That is 48 officers short of VPD’s authorized strength (budgeted). 4 - 8 ! The reality is that there are not 84 working officers actually available to staff Patrol and the specialized un...