Five New Officers, Dispatcher Join Los Gatos Police Department

Los Gatos CA

27 December, 2021

1:22 PM

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LOS GATOS, CA — Five new officers and a dispatcher recently joined the Los Gatos Monte Sereno Police Department, boosting the department's numbers after it struggled with a shortage of 911 dispatchers earlier this year. The new staffers were sworn in Dec. 16. The officers are Scott Floerchinger, Riley Frizzell, Nathan Delia, Nicholas Kirst and Darren Walker, and the new dispatcher is Heather Cross. They will help replace three officers who retired last week: Officers Kimbal Stanley, Kevin Baughn and Ryan Catron. The Los Gatos Town Council pledged to address the dispatcher shortage in October after the president of the police union said the town was down to four full-time dispatchers and called the situation a "public health crisis."