Editing Tehachapi, California (section)

== Government ==
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=== Law enforcement ===
The Tehachapi Police Department has been dissolved and reformed several times throughout the city's history. Initially created with the founding of the city, it was later disbanded. It was reestablished in 1955 and disbanded a second time.<ref>{{Cite web|author=Jon Hammond|title=Charlie Hernandez: a native son of the Tehachapi Valley|url=https://www.tehachapinews.com/lifestyle/charlie-hernandez-a-native-son-of-the-tehachapi-valley/article_a896966d-35a0-5727-b050-f57597a50667.html|access-date=December 3, 2021|website=Tehachapi News|language=en|date=February 16, 2012}}</ref> It was reestablished once more on November 27, 2006, with the swearing in of the Chief of Police, Jeff Kermode. {{As of|2024}}, the [[chief of police]] is Richard Standridge.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Tehachapi Police Department {{!}} Tehachapi, CA - Official Website|url=https://www.liveuptehachapi.com/29/Tehachapi-Police-Department|access-date=December 3, 2021|website=www.liveuptehachapi.com}}</ref>