Morgan Hill Police, city officials and community volunteers gathered April 25 at the annual “Cops and Robbers Ball” to raise funds for public safety efforts, and to celebrate a local retired officer who has volunteered for the local department for the last eight years.
The nonprofit Morgan Hill Community Law Enforcement Foundation sponsored the dinner, raffle and ceremony at the Community and Cultural Center.
CLEF’s mission is to raise money to augment the city’s efforts to provide public safety services in Morgan Hill. Past efforts spearheaded by CLEF include the purchase and training of K9 dogs for MHPD, a license plate reader and other technology.
At the Cops and Robbers Ball, CLEF honored Bruce Dudley with the 2015 Public Safety Award.
Dudley is retired from the Sunnyvale Police Department, where he started serving in 1966. In Morgan Hill, he has volunteered as a crime scene and forensics investigator. In doing so, he has saved MHPD about $50,000 in evidence processing fees that would otherwise have been paid to the Santa Clara County Crime Lab.
Dudley also volunteers at MHPD events taking pictures and shooting videos.
To learn more about CLEF, visit morganhillclef.org.
