In the late 1970s, a little girl sits on the floor, staring at the television, enraptured. On the screen, a popular police drama — Cagney and Lacey — plays out, as Detective Christine Cagney and Beth Lacey work to crack the case, fighting both bad guys and sexist stereotypes as they go…. The girl is longtime Junction City Police Department Capt. Trish Giordano, now about to retire from police work after 28 years with the JCPD. In her career, Giordano was the first woman on the JCPD to be promoted to sergeant, then later to lieutenant and most recently to Captain of Investigations. The desire to be a police officer sprang, she said, from a steady diet of police shows on television when she was a child, but her life in law enforcement didn’t start until her mid-20s, when then-officer Capt. Kirt Nichols urged her to apply.
Source: Junction City Union.
