As a teenager, LPD Communications Officer Cherie Moore thought she would be a police officer.
Her father, retired LPD officer, Don Hall, began working for the department when Cherie was 5 years old.
It did not turn out that way.
“I thought I’d be a cop. I never thought I’d be a dispatcher,” Moore said.
She went down the dispatcher path when her dad suggested she fill her time until she turned 21, the minimum age for being an officer, by getting her foot in the door as a dispatcher. She wasn’t really interested, but she put in an application.
“They called me three times. Turned it down three times. Wouldn’t go in for an interview. Finally, I walked in,” Moore said.
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