Double Duty
The Raney brothers are the only set of twin police chiefs in the U.S.
You might think that twin brothers Kevin and Kim Raney,
both police chiefs in their respective departments, grew up
playing cops and robbers, and dreamed about becoming the
town sheriff.
Not exactly.
They have escalated to the top in their field, but neither
Kim nor Kevin considered a career in law enforcement until
high school, when they were mentored in a class taught by
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members of the Los Angeles County Sheriff ’s Department
at Lakewood High in Long Beach.
“Being a police chief was not something we set out to be
when we were brothers growing up,” said Kevin Raney,
Garden Grove’s Police Chief. “We both made the decision
at about the same time that we did want to pursue a career
in law enforcement, independent of each other … we got in
at about the same time, but we really went our separate ways
in our careers.”