Alamo Rotary Presents Community Service Above Self Award

From The Rotary Club of Alamo: The Rotary Club of Alamo at its recent lunch meeting presented the community “Service above Self” award to Contra Costa County Deputy Sheriff Jesus Topete for his outstanding service to the Alamo community. Deputy Topete serves as the Alamo Resident Deputy in the Patrol Division.

In presenting the award, Diane Barley, club and vocational service director, said the Rotary Club of Alamo established the Community Service Award to honor our community’s first responders and others who exemplify Rotary International’s motto of “Service Above Self.” “Jesus Topete was selected to receive this award because of his exceptionally active role in the Alamo community by effectively wearing many different hats including serving as the school resource officer for Alamo’s elementary schools; Alamo special events coordinator; detective for local crimes that includes solving residential burglaries, armed robberies and carjacking. He has authored search and arrest warrants and assisted in dozens of felony criminal investigations. Deputy Topete also serves as the field-training officer for new deputies assigned to patrol duties.” In addition, he conducts research and develops proposals for the County’s first responders equipment to include the training and deployment of Quik Clot bandages that may help save lives in emergencies. Deputy Topete is the volunteer coordinator and works with approximately 20 Sheriff Volunteers in keeping the doors of the Alamo Valley Station open to the public, as well as managing several volunteer patrol programs.

According to Sheriff’s Lt. Jason Haynes, “Deputy Topete is very well-known in the Alamo community and everyone that knows him can easily see his motivations are pure and he wears his uniform with pride and sets an example for others in law enforcement to follow.”

In accepting the Community “Service Above Self” Award, Deputy Topete stated “that he is very honor to be receiving this award and that it is a real pleasure and honor to be serving the Alamo community.” P.O. Box 303, Alamo, CA 94507 P: 925-718-6601 E: alamorotary@hotmail.com This is the third Community Service Award to be given by the Rotary Club of Alamo. The first award was presented to San Ramon Valley Fire District Chief Paige Meyer and the second to Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Lt. Jason Haynes.

Deputy Topete joined the Contra Costa County Office of the Sheriff in July 2001, and has served with that office in law enforcement for over 17 years. He was initially assigned to the Martinez Detention Facility, where he had the opportunity to work as a line deputy before being accepted into the Transportation Unit and spent about one- year transporting inmates in-county to other counties and to several of California’s prison facilities.

He was then accepted into the much sought after Martinez Detention Facility Classification Unit where he worked for over two years identifying and housing gang members, special needs and work detail inmates. He was very involved with several important detention based investigations that resulted in the identification of criminal behavior occurring inside the jail system and the recovery of weapons, drugs and other contraband.

Deputy Topete transferred to the Patrol Division in 2005 and worked primarily on the West end of the County where he served as a patrol deputy and then as a Resident Deputy. He became a Field Training Officer while serving out of the Bay Station and then transferred over to the Alamo Valley Station in February 2014, serving as the Alamo Resident Deputy.

The Rotary Club of Alamo was founded on May 7, 1971 and has 50 members. The Club supports various programs at Alamo and Rancho Romero Elementary Schools, Lucille Mauzy School, Stone Valley Middle School, Monte Vista and San Ramon High Schools; provides dictionaries to third grade students; sponsors two free medical clinics for uninsured and underserved adults with acute or chronic medical conditions, as well as other community and international projects. The Club meets on Wednesdays at 12:15 p.m. at Round Hill Country Club.

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