New sergeants installed as one leaves Sgt. Greg Yotsuya retires after 30 years Dirk Nieuwenhuis and Mike Vierra were sworn in as sergeants last week with Chief of Police Rick Collins administering the oath.
After spending 30 years with the Ceres Police Department, Greg Yotsuya has had enough of police work.
His retirement as sergeant came Friday, the day after Chief Rick Collins promoted Dirk Nieuwenhuis and Mike Vierra to rank of sergeant. Yotsuya himself is being replaced by Sgt. Keith Griebel.
Yotsuya was hired at a time when the retirement age could occur as soon as he hit 50. But he desired retirement even more seeing a new slate of state laws being passed which he feels ties the hands of police, is unfair to require of officers and a waste of time.