From baseball to the badge: Grand Junction police sergeant brings lessons from the field to patrol

Sergeant trades baseball for badge

Grand Junction police Sgt. Chris Wilson spent six years in professional baseball before joining the department in 2015.

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  1. Grand Junction police Sgt. Chris Wilson spent six years in professional baseball before joining the department in 2015.
  2. He was drafted by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in 2006 and the San Francisco Giants in 2008, declining the first offer to stay in college at Trinidad State.
  3. Wilson says the teamwork he learned in baseball carries over to policing, where he sees the community as one team and his department as another.
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