The Anaheim Police Explorers
Post # 249 has a competition team that recently attended the Annual “Ex-Con (Explorer
Conference)” competition Saturday June 11th, 2011 in Las Vegas, Nevada!
This was an “all day” competition held at the Veterans Tribute Career and Technical Academy
which is the new Police and Fire careers school. Ten Explorers and (4) advisors participated
in several scenarios as police officers. The scenarios consisted of (6) team
events and (5) individual/”walk-up” events.
Each event had 1st -5th place (A and B) trophies. The obstacle and bike courses had 1st - 5th
place medals, and there was a single 1st place trophy for the team that won the
most in the new Fire Hose Tug of War event.
Anaheim came in 3rd place in the “Crime Scene
Investigation” and 1st in the “Active Shooter” scenarios which just
happen to be the two largest competitions. The Active Shooter scenario was a
school shooting with 6 suspects and 15 victims already shot. There were 50
teams total at this years competition all aiming to take FIRST in this
scenario. The room fell silent when Anaheim
was identified as the 1st place team.
The Explorers did well and
represented themselves and our department proudly.
Prior to this event, we
traveled to Chandler Arizona and participated in their annual “Tactical
Competition” and placed 1st in a “Multi-Agency Command Post”
scenario. We were paired with Prescott,
Arizona Explorers for this
scenario.
The Anaheim Explorers are
preparing for their next competition which will be held here in Orange County
on August 27th – 28th. Wish us well!!!
The Anaheim Explorer program is
currently the largest explorer post in Southern California
with approximately 90 participants. We had close to 70 explorers successfully
complete the 5 day “Live In” Explorer Academy held twice a year at Irvine Park.
Anaheim Explorers brought home 8 awards in the February 2011 academy including
the “Top Explorer” Award “Randall Gaston Award” named after our former Chief
Randall Gaston. One explorer was named “Top Explorer” out of 180 explorers from
all over Southern California.
We are currently preparing 17
explorers for the upcoming August 2011 Academy.
Wish us well!!!
We would like to thank the
APA for their support and sponsorship of our Anaheim Police Explorer Post #249.
If anyone else, business or
otherwise would like to support or sponsor our future officers please contact
the APA office at (714) 635-0272 or one of the Explorer Advisors: Officer Chris
Ned at (714) 765-1539 or Officer Jon Nooitgedagt
at jnooitgedagt@anaheim.net.
