August 2018 | Vol. 15 Iss. 08
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‘NOTHING IS HOPELESS’
FAMILY-FIRST POLICE OFFICER REFLECTS ON TIME SERVING HOLLADAY By Aspen Perry | a.perry@mycityjournals.com
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ne thing was clear when I sat down with Officer Lenny Bruno in an office at Holladay’s Unified Police Department the day before his retirement party: Bruno loves serving in Holladay, and he’s going to miss his colleagues and the people in the community. “I’m gonna miss the people. Holladay has been like a family,” Bruno said. When asked why he wanted to be an officer, Bruno said there was no particular reason other than being an officer was just something he always wanted to do. “Even when I went to work for the railroad, I had tested for Salt Lake City (Police Department) and made it all the way through to the verbal interview,” Bruno said. As fate would have it, before Bruno reached that part of the hiring process, a friend set him up with a better-paying job working for the railroad. After 16 years with the railroad, Bruno returned to the career he originally wanted, in search of a more stable life for his family. “I got tired of being gone from my family — every time I tried to move them where I was I’d get transferred somewhere else,” Bruno said. Upon Bruno’s decision to put family first, he came back to Salt Lake to test for the sheriff’s office and was immediately brought on as a reserve. “I did well enough; I was hired out of the first round,” Bruno
Chief Don Hutson, Chief Jason Mazuran, Officer Lenny Bruno and Sheriff Rosie Rivera. (Danelle Bills/Salt Lake County Sheriffs Office)
said.
Bruno started with Holladay before it incorporated as a city, and many on the city staff consider Bruno a friend.
“I am honored to call him my friend,” said Stephanie Carlson, city recorder. “He is a great example of community policing.”
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