The woman who coordinated events at the POA Office for the past 34 years, who took care of your insurance needs, who prepared informational bulletins, worked on campaigns, and was the confidante to 5 different Association Presidents has ‘left the building’. And, yes, that individual would be Yvonne Huey.
Yvonne recently retired and will be a little upset that she is even showing up in this article because she never wanted any attention drawn to her – but we can’t ignore her many years of service to the membership, that just wouldn’t be fair.
Yvonne was the best at everything she did. Whether it was dealing with sometimes difficult constituents or having to share some very trying times when we would lose an officer, she always came through.
So we wish her and her family all the best because all the best is well-deserved.
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5/04/12: The man walking on Market was known to Sergeant Luke Martin, Officer Patrick Griffin, Officer Michael Tursi, and Officer Thomas Moran as an individual who had an outstanding felony no bail warrant for domestic violence. The officers detained the suspect and placed him under arrest. Unfortunately, for him, the officers also located the fully-loaded gun he had concealed on his person. And that’s something that no convicted felon wants to deal with . . .
5/16/12: Officer Matthew Dudley, Officer Chris Dunne, and Officer Richard Hunt were working the Violence Reduction Team in the Northern District when they attempted to make contact with an individual of interest. The subject took off running and the officers followed. It was during the chase that Officer Hunt could clearly see that the suspect was armed with a gun. The suspect was eventually taken into custody along with the fully-loaded, 380 semi-automatic weapon he was carrying.
5/18/12: It was only 11:40 a.m. when Dispatch was notified that there was an armed suspect walking in the area of Bertha Lane and Hudson Avenue with a gun in his hand. Officer Sher Khan and Officer Agustin Perez responded. There was only one person on the block when they arrived and he matched the description of the suspect with the gun. When the officers called out for him to stop he refused. They continued to follow him on foot repeating their orders to stop. The suspect finally complied and, after a brief contact, the officers located a fully-loaded, .45 caliber semi-automatic tucked in his waistband. The suspect was also wearing a bullet-proof vest . . . There’s no telling what might have happened if the suspect decided to take his chances . . .
5/26/12: It’s 5:30 in the morning and the man on the roof of the building at 21st and Harrison Streets in the Mission doesn’t belong there. He was noticed by a woman resident who awoke to find him standing over her bed staring in through her skylight. He then peeled the screen off of her skylight and started banging on it in an attempt to break it. The woman was petrified and called 9-1-1. The sirens of responding units didn’t distract our irrational suspect, in fact he continued to try and break other windows in the building attempting to enter occupied apartments. Enter Sergeant Scott Edwards, Officer Antonio Balingit, Officer Vincent Masilang, Officer Almer Manrique, and Officer Angus Chambers. The petrified occupants threw their keys down to the officers to let them in. The officers then managed to make their way up to the roof of the building (after breaking through rooftop doors that had been barricaded by the suspect) and attempted to take him into custody. The angry suspect would have nothing to do with their orders and ran towards the ledge of the roof. Once cornered, the suspect continued to fight with the officers who were extremely concerned not only with taking the suspect into custody but also of falling from the 3-story building while trying to do so. The officers finally managed to get him under control. A subsequent search of the backpack he was wearing revealed a machete . . . so there’s no telling how much damage he could have done to his intended victims had he gained access to their apartments.
5/28/12: Same police district 10 days later and Officer Tommie Bartley, Officer Gerald Lyons, and Officer Michael Ellis, working in plainclothes capacity, respond to a report of an individual wearing a green and brown camouflage jacket in the area of Apollo and Williams Avenue armed with a gun. The officers locate the suspect and set up a short distance away to watch. Sure enough, the suspect is talking to several others when he inadvertently drops a high-capacity magazine on the ground and then retrieves it. The officers now know that they are dealing with an individual who is not only armed, but armed with a weapon with huge firepower. The officers start their approach and the suspect runs. They manage to apprehend him and recover a Tech-9 sub-machine gun. (See: Photo insert)
5/30/12: Officer Matthew Dudley, Officer Chris Dunne, and Officer Richard Hunt are back again, this time patrolling the Alemany Housing Projects when they come across 2 individuals who, as soon as they see the highly recognizable plainclothes car, decide to re-locate. The officers decided to check in with them to see why they made that decision . . . and, after a brief chase, the reason is made very clear when the officers relieved the 2 suspects of the fully-loaded, .40 caliber semi-automatic weapon they were carrying.
So there were at least 5 guns (and 1 machete) taken off the streets of San Francisco during the month of May, 2012. We’re sure there were more but these were the ones brought to our attention. And, in each and every incident reported, the situation could have taken a different twist. Fortunately, none of the officers involved were injured, and all of them went home after their tour of duty. Let’s keep it that way . . .
Stay safe.
