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Commander brings 30 years of police service to East precinct

Sean P. Nelson
For The Mid-county Memo

Commander Greg Hendricks enters the Portland Police Bureau’s Mobile Command Center for a meeting on the progress of the Burglary Intervention Team operation held in February.
MEMO PHOTO: TIM CURRAN
This month, new Portland Police Bureau East Precinct Commander Greg Hendricks marks his 30th anniversary as a police officer.

Hendricks, 51, is a veteran police officer who rose through the ranks of the Portland Police Bureau after starting as a 36-year old rookie 15 years ago.

After stints as a narcotics officer, on the Gang Enforcement Team, as a lieutenant planning for police response during the Millennium New Year’s celebration in the year 2000, and on the Portland Police Bureau’s Inspection and Control Unit, Hendricks is well qualified to assume command of the 140 police and personnel at East Precinct.

East Precinct is Portland’s largest pre-cinct, encompassing 32 square miles and serving 174,000 citizens.

Following graduation from Vancouver, Wash.’s Evergreen High School in 1972, Hendricks became an emergency medical technician in Portland. At first Hendricks wanted emergency medicine to be his career.

In 1975 Hendricks began his law enforcement career as a reserve police officer for the Milwaukie Police Depart-ment. Deciding police work would provide more security for his family, Hendricks accepted a full time position with the Milwaukie Police Depart-ment in 1979 and has never looked back.

In Milwaukie he spent eight years as a uniformed patrol officer and three as a detective. He also helped on cases with the Regional Narcotics Task Force, composed of detectives from Multnomah, Clackamas and Washington counties.

In September 1990 Hendricks joined the Portland Police Bureau as a 36-year-old recruit.

“In those days you had to start completely over,” Hendricks stated. “I started with recruit pay and recruit benefits. I went through the same training as everybody else who is hired by the Portland Police Bureau.

“I didn’t have to go through the basic police academy again, but I went through the advanced police academy and 18 months of probation. It was another of those decisions where I’ve never looked back. It was a good decision to make and my 14 years here have been wonderful,” Hendricks said.

After attending the advanced police academy for 24 weeks, new Portland police officers were then rotated for 18 months between police precincts performing different duties during their probationary period.

His last stop during his probationary period was Central Precinct, where he worked in Old Town’s Chinatown beginning in September 1991. He has spent most of his 15-year Portland Police Bureau career at Central Precinct downtown in a variety of assignments.

Hendricks worked as a street officer, district officer and one was of the first Neighborhood Response Team officers. He also was a street Narcotics Unit officer for one year. Promoted to sergeant in 1994, Hendricks continued working in Chinatown until early 1998. He then worked for the Gang Enforcement Team for nine months.

In 1998 he was promoted to lieutenant and became commanding officer for the morning relief in Chinatown. Shortly afterwards Hendricks was made a lieutenant in the Operations Division, where hetailored police response during such events in Central Precinct as the Rose Festival.

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