Don Howell
Police Officer – Monrovia Police Department for 6 years Police Officer – Huntington Beach Police Department for 24 years with 22 years spent working as a full time Detective in the ‘Crimes Against Persons’ Unit. My primary assignment was investigating sexually motivated crimes, including child molest, rape, physical abuse of children, homicide and child kidnapping-abduction. I have worked closely with crime victims and their families, with local, state and federal law enforcement agencies and the news media. In 2003 I retired from full time police work but continued with HBPD as a part time detective, working sex crimes and felony assaults. I was on loan to the Orange County Homicide Task Force, a cold case unit, for 3 1/2 years. Currently I’m assigned to HBPD’s Domestic Violence Unit. I’ve been a police officer for 46 years. Founding Board Member – Adam Walsh Child Resource Center, which later became the California branch of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
