WHAT: Richmond Police 109th
Basic Recruit Class Graduation
WHEN: 10 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 21, 2014
WHERE: Cheek
Theater, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 200 N. Boulevard
BACKGROUND: Chief
Ray J. Tarasovic and the Richmond Police Department are
proud to welcome 28 new officers to the force and invite the public to their
graduation and swearing-in ceremony tomorrow.
Hopewell Police Chief John Keohane, who
retired from Richmond Police after nearly 30 years of service as a major and
former Training Academy sergeant, will give the keynote address.
The diverse recruit
class includes individuals from Egypt, Ukraine, Puerto Rico as well as officers
from other police agencies. After 30 weeks of training at the Department’s
Academy, the 109th Basic Recruit Class will immediately begin patrols, each
assigned to a field training officer for the next eight weeks.
The entire Richmond
Police Department would like to congratulate and welcome:
- Gift Agamah,
- Danyell Archer
- Daniel Barner
- Jeremy Bauer,
- Roman Borshch,
- Keon Chandler,
- Javaughn Charlton,
- Chevonne
Crawley,
- Alexandra
Davila,
- Zachary Davis,
- Travis Dooley,
- Sherif Dorghoud,
- John Douglas,
- Francis
Dumansky,
- Yasmine Espree,
- Charles
Griffith,
- Gregory
Helfrecht,
- Jamaica Jones,
- Erick Millan,
- Chelsea
Mitchell,
- Eric O’Brien,
- Michael Poerstel,
- Willie Ruffin,
- Stephen Sales,
- Kevin Santiago,
- Richard Taylor,
- Jonathan Wade
and,
- Jennifer Ward.
