Orange County Fourth District Supervisor Shawn Nelson and Placentia Police Chief Darin Lenyi recently recognized three Police Explorers from Valencia High School. These students took home trophies from this year’s national invitational in Chandler, Ariz., and were honored at City Hall this week.
The invitational at Chandler, hosted for the 19th time by Chandler Police Department, is the equivalent of the NCAA “Final Four” where outstanding Police Explorers from 57 police and sheriff departments all over the United States train and compete in 27 challenging events.
Valencia students Poomima Somaiah, Marvin Kimbrough and Cristal Servin partnered with members from the Brea and La Habra Police Explorer teams. Together, they showed courage and demonstrated technical skills by completing police obstacle courses and tackling 21st-century field problems.
The local team took home a third place trophy for Robot Operations, fourth place for Vertical Assault and fifth place for Tactical Laser Tag.
Congratulations were also presented to Police Explorer advisors, Senior Officer Jose Flores and Officer Brian Yamaguchi, who trained and coached the 2017 team to their national finals excellence.
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