Sunday, May 11, 2014

Niche Police

I often see police cars driving around the quite suburbs. The cities here are small, like local councils in most Australian capital cities, and each have their own police force. There are also county police, state police and the federal police - the FBI.

But I was surprised this morning to see a police car labelled "Foothill-De Anza Community College District Police Department". I knew Universities could have their own police, so was not surprised that the University of California, Berkeley had police - although it still seemed weird to an Australian. But community colleges? It seems a very small area to have its own police. And Foothill and De Anza College are over 10km from each other, so there are these little pockets of jurisdiction for this police force.

P.S. Looks like I never hit "post" after I wrote this two years ago (to the day!), so I've posted it now.