Denver police Chief Paul Pazen will retire from the department on Saturday after serving as its chief for four years and steering the department through what he called “the perfect horrible storm.”
Paul Pazen wasn’t sure he was going to get the job when he applied to work as a Denver police officer in 1994.
“My goals were pretty simple,” he said. “I’ve been very fortunate along the way — through mentors and support — to achieve levels that I’m very thankful for.” “But no generation of police officers or police departments had to go through all of them at the same time,” Pazen said. “You do absorb some of that trauma, whether it’s crime victims or even what we saw in 2020,” he said. “I think to do this job right it does take someone who pours their heart and soul into this work and who does absorb some of that.”
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