Visiting LAPD Detective Address in Sn Ignacio

Lynette Mai, is the daughter of Sylvestre (deceased) and Rosita Mai. She was born in Red Creek and grew up in Santa Elena Town. She attended St. Andrew Anglican Primary and Sacred Heart College both in San Ignacio Town. After graduating from Sacred Heart at age 16, Lynette migrated to Los Angeles, California where for almost a year she held house cleaning and babysitting jobs. She was certainly not intent on being a house cleaner or babysitter for very long because she wanted more out of life. She told the gathering that her lifelong dream was to serve in the uniformservices primarily as a police officer. She reminisces, about the way she looked up to police officers all dressed in their neat and impressive uniforms.

After her first year in Los Angeles, Lynette began working as a waitress and attended school at night to further her education with an Associates Degree. Degree in hand, in 1994, she applied and was accepted to join the Los Angeles Police Department where she has been serving for the last 16 years. She gave the gathering a detailed description of the six months years, this she said was mandatory before venturing into any specialized field of policing. She received a first promotion after seven years of service after successfully sitting the Sergeants and Detective’s exams in 2001. She is currently serving as a detective shift supervisor.

After providing that brief background, LAPD Detective Lynette Mai went on to share her views on what it takes to perform to the best of one’s ability as an officer of the law. She advised that being a police officer should be viewed as a career, it not as just any ordinary job. She said that all officers are expected to display professionalismat all times and that professionalism is primarily displayed in an individual’s physical appearance, the way a person carries him or herself as well as their physical fitness. It is shown in the way an individual speaks and interacts with others; it is displayed in the manner by which an officer writes reports and the way one dresses both on and off duty. Detective Sergeant Lynette Mai is also scheduled to visit on Friday, November 5, with officers fromthe Benque Viejo Town Police sub-formation before she departs Belize on Sunday, November 7, on the return trip to Los Angeles and back to work.

Training she underwent such as the many written and oral examinations as well as theory and practical policing exercises. She especially recalls the gruesome physical exercises especially the 12-minute one and half mile run, the obstacle course with the high wooden wall and other strenuous exercises testing physical endurance as well as medical examinations. After graduating fromthe training academy, the recent graduates were placed on one year probation in the company of training officers. During that period she worked three twelve hour shifts each day. After the one year probation she was then placed on patrol for two and a half.