As a Law Enforcement Officer - Garden Grove

The Resort Services Team heads up the
partnership between the Resort District and
the Garden Grove Police Department. The 520-
acre Resort District, located one half-mile south
of the Disneyland Resort and the Anaheim
Convention Center, includes 2,780 hotel rooms
at nine world-renowned hotel chains, and five
major chain restaurants. This year, the Garden
Grove City Council approved an expansion of
the Embassy Suites Hotel and ratified the new
“Great Wolf” 600-room hotel, containing 15,000
square-feet of meeting space connected to a
three-acre indoor water park.
The primary mission of the Resort Services
Team is to help maintain a safe and secure
environment for guests, merchants and
employees within the District. Master Officer
II Mike Feher handles the police presence in
and around the Resort District. He responds to
and directs any resources necessary to combat
problems such as fraud, theft and other crimes
that may occur. To expand visibility in the
Resort District, several of the Department’s
Volunteers In Policing (VIPs) began regular patrol checks in the area.
The Resort District saw an increase in families attending Disneyland and the surrounding Southern California
tourist venues, as well as increased convention business; including major shows such as, NAMM (National
Association of Musician Merchants), Medical Design, Cal-Dental, and Blizz-con video games and technology
exhibitions. The Resort District also benefited from the presence of the 2010 Major League Baseball All-Star Game
at Angel Stadium. Finally, resort area restaurant Buca di Beppo made it into the Guinness Book of World Records by
making the largest bowl of spaghetti in the world (13,786 pounds of spaghetti and 100 gallons of marinara sauce),
which was later donated to a local pig farmer as feed.
The mission of a Terrorism Liaison Officer (TLO) is to serve as a conduit of
information between members of the public safety community, public/private
sector, citizenry and the US Government, in the fight against terrorism, both
foreign and domestic. The Garden Grove Police TLO Program is comprised
of specially trained and certified officers from various units within the
department, which ensures a TLO presence throughout the department.
Every TLO is responsible for sharing terrorism-related information with
the Orange County Intelligence Assessment Center (OCIAC), Joint
Regional Intelligence Center (JRIC), and FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force
(JTTF) for follow-up, and each may serve as the agency point of
contact for the OCIAC, JRIC, and JTTF.
Garden Grove TLOs attend monthly training and information sharing
meetings, as well as additional advanced/specialized training
throughout the year. In 2010, the TLOs gave 17 presentations to the
business community, citizens, and other law enforcement personnel.
These presentations included suspicious activity/behavior indicators,
terrorist training and operational behavior, first responder safety and
tactics in response to a possible terrorist incident.