Cassie Pickett has her father, Mike, adjusts her police badge after he pinned it on her during a swearing-in ceremony at the Pleasanton Police Department. Pickett recently completed the Evergreen Police Academy and is now officially a member of the Pleasanton Police Department, although she is already a familiar face around the department.
While a sophomore at Foothill High School, Pickett enrolled in the department’s Police Explorer Program, where students get an inside look at police work. Pickett was active in the program, and after graduating from high school she began working at the police department as a part-time records clerk while working on her associate’s degree at Las Positas College. Once she graduated from Las Positas, she began her training as a police officer at the Evergreen Police Academy and recently finished her six-month training. Pickett is the first student from the Explorer program to become a Pleasanton Police Officer.
“This is a day a lot us knew was coming for a long time,” said Police Chief Tim Neal before the swearing-in ceremony. “It’s a special day for all of us who watched you grow up here for six-plus years.”
