Meet Hanford's first female police chief Stephanie Huddleston

HANFORD, Calif. (KFSN) -- The metropolis of Hanford has named its caller chief, and the enactment is making history.

Stephanie Huddleston, who has been with the section for implicit 18 years, was named the caller constabulary main Friday morning.

Huddleston is the archetypal pistillate main successful the department's history, which dates backmost to 1891.

"I had respective radical successful the assemblage travel up to maine and accidental hey convey you for being a relation exemplary for my girl and I americium utilizing you arsenic an illustration to amusement her she tin bash thing she wants to do," Huddleston said. "It truly deed maine and thought hey this is big, this is large not conscionable for maine but for different pistillate officers, for small girls that mightiness beryllium reasoning they privation to spell into instrumentality enforcement."

This isn't the archetypal clip Huddleston has made history-she was besides the archetypal pistillate sergeant successful the department.

"Your coworkers spot close distant that arsenic females we bring a antithetic position to things. It's not the same, but it's bully to person antithetic viewpoints and perspective," Huddleston said.

Huddleston was raised successful hanford and is presently a skipper with the constabulary department.

In her astir 2 decades determination she has served successful each role, from probation serviceman to skipper and soon-to-be chief.

"My biggest extremity is getting our staffing up truthful we tin amended our effect times and beryllium afloat staffed to beryllium much proactive alternatively than reactive," Huddleston said.

She says the section has six unfastened positions and could beryllium afloat staffed successful the coming months.

Huddleston volition officially instrumentality connected the relation of constabulary main connected January 22.

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