 Hand in hand with being a Marine, I've always wanted to be a police officer. I am extremely fortunate that I can give something back to the community that gave so much to me. I am a product of Long Beach and I'm just ungrateful to be able to serve Long Beach. My name is Officer Paul Del Rosario. I've been in the Marine Corps for just about four and a half years and I've been with Long Beach Police Department for just under three years. Once you understand that the mission comes first, it's easy to understand that your community comes first. You go to a call and you're expected to handle it and that's what you have to do. You run the show. You walk into the room, all eyes run you. And that's a lot of responsibility. You're not representing yourself, you're representing your department, then you're representing your city and inevitably you're going to be representing all of law enforcement across the country. I think being a police officer has given me a different set of life experience. Understanding that things aren't just, they're not one-sided, they're a variety and multitude of solutions to a problem. It's kind of opened my eyes and the way I handle problems with junior Marines and completing tasks has changed drastically. I chose the Marine Corps for the pride of belonging. When I enlisted I had an image of myself being an 80-year-old man sitting in my rocking chair and looking back and being able to tell my kids, my grandkids that, yeah, I'm a Marine. Being documented in the Marine Corps, we all learned three core values, honor, courage, commitment. And being a police officer in Long Beach, we exercised those core values on a daily basis.