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Palm Beach Gardens Police Department - K9 Unit
Officer Robert "Bobby" Wummer (left), with K-9 Kris, and officer Glenn Wright (right), with K-9 Aran, were the city's first canine officers. Officer Wummer has been with the department since April 1984 and with the canine unit since it began in 1994.…
Palm Beach Gardens Police Department - SWAT Team
The SWAT team was formed in 1993 to assist with executing high-risk search warrants, high-risk arrest warrants of dangerous subjects, barricaded suspects, building searches for suspects, hostage situations, or any incident in which there is an…
Police Explorers Take First Place in Statewide Competition
Capt. Kirsten Eriksson, 18, Lt. Robert Artola, 17 and Sgts. Michael Macko, 19, and Michael McLean, 20, were living out a realistic nighttime scenario where they had to search a darkened building and catch a suspect hiding inside. Their performance…
Emergency Operations Center - Hurricane HAVOC Drill (2)
With hurricane season now underway one local city is doing what it can to make sure it's prepared for possible storms. Emergency officials with Palm Beach Gardens held a mock hurricane drill scenario and practiced the roles that everyone would have…
Emergency Operations Center - Hurricane HAVOC Drill (1)
Packing category 3 winds, Hurricane Havoc slammed into Frenchman's Reserve on Monday morning, flooding streets, damaging homes and knocking out power in the residential community off Hood Road.
That was the simulation faced by city police, fire and…
Emergency Operations Center - Inside
2004’s Hurricanes Frances and Jeanne may not have been Category 5 hurricanes when they hit this area, but they were threatening enough for the city of Palm Beach Gardens to start researching options for a Category 5-protected emergency…
Lt. Henry "Hank" Nolan & the Chevrolet Nova
Seeking economical performance, the city purchased Chevrolet Nova police cars in September 1975, which doubled the life of the tires while using half as much gasoline as the larger police cars. Lt. Henry "Hank" Nolan stands beside one of the Novas.…
Plant Drive Park - Children at Play
Children enjoying the playground equipment at Plant Drive Park after it opened in 1965; parents looking on with cautious enthusiasm.
Plant Drive Park - Playground Equipment
Palm Beach Gardens' first recreation director, Woody Dukes, proudly presents the first piece of playground equipment. It was located at Plant Drive Park when it opened in 1965. What the park lacked in equipment was made up for in parental enthusiasm.…
Palm Beach Gardens Public Pool
Lifeguard Don Kiselewski Jr. barks out safety instructions from his megaphone at the new city pool. Funds that were used to build the pool ($155,000) were earned on May 1, 1981 during a community project called "The House that Buz Built," setting a…