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our history
Where It Started – The LASD Tradition
What It Means Today – TCR Dedication Run
Bringing It Home – Western Slope Roots
The TCR Dedication Run began with a simple idea: bring a meaningful Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department tradition to the Western Slope. Allison Willis, a former LA County Sheriff’s deputy and now instructor at the Technical College of the Rockies Police Academy, saw the impact when each academy class dedicated itself to a fallen off
The TCR Dedication Run began with a simple idea: bring a meaningful Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department tradition to the Western Slope. Allison Willis, a former LA County Sheriff’s deputy and now instructor at the Technical College of the Rockies Police Academy, saw the impact when each academy class dedicated itself to a fallen officer. To earn their patches, recruits trained for months, completed a memorial run for a chosen deputy, and then honored the fallen by inviting the officer’s family to a formal ceremony—a day known as the “Colors Run” that united sweat, sacrifice, and remembrance. service together in a way no classroom lesson ever could.
Bringing It Home – Western Slope Roots
What It Means Today – TCR Dedication Run
Bringing It Home – Western Slope Roots
The TCR Police Academy started the Dedication Run to bring a tradition of honoring fallen officers to the Western Slope. Surrounded by mountains and close-knit communities, this run is now a local way to remember and honor those who gave everything, rooted in the Western Slope tradition of grit, courage, and pride.
What It Means Today – TCR Dedication Run
What It Means Today – TCR Dedication Run
What It Means Today – TCR Dedication Run
Today, the Dedication Run lets cadets show their hard work and commitment to family, friends, and agency partners. It’s a reminder of their training and the high standards they uphold. It also unites the entire Western Slope law enforcement community—past, present, and future—to honor sacrifices, remember the fallen, and stand together as one law enforcement family.
Run with us
During the run, participants move in a formation run and sing "jodies"—organized lines of runners staying in step as one team. Anyone can join, no law enforcement experience needed; just come ready to run alongside cadets, officers, families, and community members.
choosen heros
Coming Soon
Updates will appear here once Class 26-1 announces who they are dedicating their class to, why they chose this officer, and more details about their story and sacrifice
COMING SOON!
Help Our Cause
Your support helps future academy classes by funding Dedication Run T‑shirts, sharing our mission with the community, providing meaningful gifts for the honored family, and covering food and drinks so everyone can come together after the run.
