Baldwin Park Police interim Capt. Lili Hadsell* has been officially named Chief of Police, according to city officials.

As far as I know the appointment of Hartsell would make her just the second woman police chief in the San Gabriel Valley if not Los Angeles County, behind Marilyn Diaz of Sierra Madre.

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*Tania Chatila says Hadsell is the county’s third female chief. Inglewood’s Jacqueline Seabrooks is the second.