Oakland Police Department promotes one, hires three

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Oakland Police Chief John Peek introduced one member with a new rank and three new officers at the March 22 Town Commission meeting.

Roger Fischer has been promoted to corporal. He has twice won the Crisis Intervention Team award, in addition to many service awards.

The new additions are Detective Michael Bryant and officers Reynalis Rojas Mercado and Ralph Spzak.

Spzak is a former New York police officer, Bryant is retired from the Ocoee Police Department, and Rojas Mercado is a recent police academy graduate.

“We truly have to look for the right people of moral courage, civility, education,” Peek said. “We took our time and found, what I think, are the right people.”

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Amy Quesinberry

Community Editor Amy Quesinberry was born at the old West Orange Memorial Hospital and raised in Winter Garden. Aside from earning her journalism degree from the University of Georgia, she hasn’t strayed too far from her hometown and her three-mile bubble. She grew up reading The Winter Garden Times and knew in the eighth grade she wanted to write for her community newspaper. She has been part of the writing and editing team since 1990.