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The Hillsboro Police Department (HPD) is the municipal law enforcement agency of the city of Hillsboro, Oregon, United States. It is a regionally accredited agency with 115 sworn officers on the force. As of February 2014, the chief is Lee Dobrowolski in a city of over 90,000 residents west of Portland, Oregon, in Washington County. With 151 employees as of 2007, the department is the second largest police force in the county and seventh largest in Oregon.〔 ==History== The Hillsboro Police Department grew to five employees in 1947, and expanded to 31 employees by 1976.〔Campbell, Rae Anne. Police Dept. operates on ideals. ''The Hillsboro Argus'', October 19, 1976.〕 In 1980, officer Gerald H. Erickson became the only officer in the department to die in the line of duty.〔The one hundred fifty -two Oregon law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty. ''Statesman Journal'', September 9, 2001.〕 The department hired Ron Louie as chief of police in 1992.〔Eckert, Kurt. (Chief goes out, Chief comes in Hillsboro Police Chief Ron Louie expects a seamless transition when he is replaced by Deputy Chief Lila Ashenbrenner as of July 2. ) ''The Hillsboro Argus'', June 15, 2007.〕 The department had grown to 54 sworn officers in 1994.〔Frank, Ryan. Hillsboro Police patrol job market for qualified officers. ''The Oregonian'', June 8, 2000.〕 In 1995, Hillsboro police partnered with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Intel Corporation to start the Oregon High-Tech Crime Team to investigate and prosecute computer based crimes.〔Baker, Isaac. FBI Asks Oregon Group to Join in the Fight Against Cyber Crime. ''The Oregonian'', October 30, 2000.〕 Intel donated $100,000 to the program.〔Best force Intel can buy. ''The Australian'', August 6, 1996.〕 By 1999, the department had seven officers assigned to the team.〔Huffstutter, P.J. Tech firms pay police agencies to fight cyber crime; law enforcement: Intel funds sheriff’s unit that chases computer pirates. Some fear conflict of interest. ''Los Angeles Times'', July 26, 1999.〕 In 2003, the unit was dissolved after 93 arrests and the recovery of $208 million, after private funding ended and a new FBI lab was opened.〔Frank, Ryan. Hillsboro’s cybercrime unit breaks up. ''The Oregonian'', November 3, 2003.〕 The department became the first police agency in Oregon to collect racial information from traffic stops in May 2000.〔Steves, David. Oregon House Approves Bill to Study Police Stops for Racial Profiling. ''The Register Guard'', April 13, 2001.〕〔Bernstein, Maxine. Data on police traffic stops sit incomplete and unused. ''The Oregonian'', May 9, 2004.〕 The information was collected to train officers to not target minority groups.〔 Hillsboro PD examines the data monthly to analyze any numbers that appear disproportionate to Census data.〔 By 2001, the department offered increased pay for officers who could speak Spanish.〔Greenblatt, Alan. Police officers primed en Espanol. ''Governing Magazine'', April 2001.〕 In 2006, police chief Ron Louie and one other officer were appointed to a six-person, state-wide task force to analyze racial profiling along with the American Civil Liberties Union’s top person in the state, and former Oregon Supreme Court justice Edwin J. Peterson.〔The cast; Listening Post. ''Statesman Journal'', February 19, 2006.〕 The department established a mediation program in 1997.〔(RESOLUTION: Learning the skills. ) ''Oregon Lawyer'', update 2007.〕 That program reached its goal of providing 32 hours of formal training for its entire workforce, becoming the first law enforcement agency in the United States accomplish this task.〔 HPD has documented that mediation can lead to fewer repeat calls to police from those involved in disputes.〔Cooper, Christopher. Training Patrol Officers to Mediate Disputes. ''The FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin'', February 1, 2000.〕 The department purchased a closed Albertson's grocery store for $2.6 million in January 2001.〔 The building was remodeled and became the new main precinct.〔 An earthquake in February 2001 temporarily closed the police headquarters in downtown, but re-opened the same day after the damage to the old brick building was determined to be cosmetic and not structural. In December 2001, the department took issue with the appropriateness of some of the questions in the United States Department of Justice’s anti-terrorism interviews that followed the September 11 attacks.〔Correction * A Sunday commentary article listed Hillsboro. ''The Oregonian'', December 5, 2001.〕 HPD became nationally accredited in 2004 by the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA),〔(CALEA: 2004 Annual Report. ) Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies. Retrieved on October 5, 2006.〕 and regionally accredited in 2008 by the Oregon Accreditation Alliance. The agency remained CALEA accredited until 2007.〔(CALEA: 2007 Annual Report. ) Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies. Retrieved on February 20, 2009.〕 In 2003 officer Lila Ashenbrenner became the first woman in the department with a command position.〔 Danks, Holly. Ever-watchful pioneer. ''The Oregonian'', August 4, 2003.〕 At that time women made up 19% of the 106 officer force.〔 On July 2, 2007, Ashenbrenner would become the departments first female chief of police when Louie retired.〔 Prior chiefs of police include M. E. DeRock (1947-77),〔 Herman Woll (1977-1991),〔Anderson, David R. Former Hillsboro police chief dies. ''The Oregonian'', October 5, 2001.〕 Ron Louie (1992-2007),〔 Lila Ashenbrenner (2007-2010), Carey Sullivan (2010-2014), and Lee Dobrowolski (2014 - current) In 1997, a police dog on the force was shot and killed in the line of duty, and in 2007 Hondo Dog Park was built by the city and named in honor of the fallen canine.〔Diehl, Angella Foret. New bark park has room to run. ''The Oregonian'', September 14, 2007.〕 The department's Life Intervention program for fighting truancy in schools was named a finalist an award by the International Association of Chiefs of Police in 2009. Carey Sullivan served as chief from July 2010 to March 2013, with former chief Ron Louie serving as interim chief. The city hired Lee Dobrowolski as the new chief, taking office in February 2014. 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