Deputy Chief Ruby Flores is the first woman to lead the department's Operations-Valley Bureau.
For Women's History Month we highlight the LAPD's newest Deputy Chief Ruby Flores. She is the first woman to lead the department's Operations-Valley Bureau.We talked to Flores at last Friday's recruit graduation where she said it was an honor to attend the graduation at the rank of Deputy Chief. She graduated herself almost thirty years ago.In January. Flores became the LAPD's first Latina to hold the rank of Deputy Chief.
It was on the heels of civil unrest in 2020 that Chief Michel Moore appointed her as the first Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer. For Flores, this a season of tremendous highs, and heartbreaking lows.On a joyous note, she got married last year and celebrates her one-year anniversary at the end of this month. She married LAPD colleague LaSalle Culpepper who recently retired as a bomb canine officer.Extended family is also law enforcement.
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