Monday, February 18, 2013

Pacifica Five-0's Captain Realyvasquez moves on


After 26 years with the Pacifica PD, in addition to 3 years as a reserve, Captain Fernando Realyvasquez has decided to retire from the Pacifica PD. He has accepted a position with the San Mateo County Sheriff's Department.

Good luck, Captain Realyvasquez.

Posted by Steve Sinai

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

Another casualty of Len and MaryAnn's desire to dismantle the city piece by piece and department by department. The City loses a 29 year police veteran, undoubtedly due to the black cloud cast over city employees by Len and MaryAnn.

It's a shame....the numbers passed around at the Council finance session last week show that each of the options, including outsourcing the PD and a tax measure are all likely to be a temporary patch.....again....until the City can promote some feasible economic development. Until then, let's destroy what we have.

Kathy Meeh said...

"...dismantle the city piece by piece and department by department." Anonymous 5:28 PM

Think its more fair to "blame" prior city council leadership (Vreeland, DeJarnatt, Lancelle and remaining Sue Digre) for failed city economic planning.

Blaming Len and MaryAnn makes no sense. They came in too late to make much structural difference.

Anonymous said...

Kathy,

Mary & Len deserve blame for the dog and pony show on the police outscoring.

Less blame then Jimmy Julie sue and Pete

Pragmatic Pete said...

Well, the smart ones realize that 1.7M in savings is a tough nut to crack with labor negotiations.
We'll see him on our streets again, I'm pretty sure.

Anonymous said...

WaaaWaaaaWaaaa...poor Fernando a casualty? Hardly. He's on his way to real riches. We should have outsourced last year. Thanks to Len and MaryAnn for thoroughly screwing the pooch. Was it that the election was more important or just general incompetence? After 4+ years of her bull and 2 yrs of him, who could tell? Thank you again, Bernie Sifry, for term limits.

Anonymous said...

@614 Nihart and Stone screwed the pooch on outsourcing. Went all sleazy politician on us. The nimby council was long gone. They are gone, right?

Anonymous said...

Shocker! A police captain with 29 years on the Department leaves .... for a line level position as a deputy sheriff, I'm told.

Definitely time to outsource. Actually, it was time last year. Hopefully the sweet deal is still on the table wherein Pacifica saves money and all the existing cops keep their jobs (and actually make more money! Wow! I guess the County of San Mateo has done a far better job of bringing in real revenue if they can actually afford to pay their highly trained public safety employees MORE than what the City of Pacifica does.)

Best of luck to Deputy Realyvasquez.Very smart choice on his part.

Steve Sinai said...

The Tribune said the previous outsourcing deal is off the table. The city would have to start the request for proposal process all over.

Anonymous said...

And you believe that?

Anonymous said...

No hope for you then!

Anonymous said...

I think the transfer to the county is a done deal.