Still on the beat Retired officers continue working in their old units

Just four months short of 30 years on the police force, Brian Stack is handing in his badge. But he s not giving up the work he loves so much. I just couldn t walk away after 3" he said. Stack is joining two other Anaheim police officers who decided to continue helping the department after they officially retire from active duty. These former officers become part of the city's reserve unit. Stack served as a motorcycle rider for the last 14 years. With the majority of his experience in traffic and accident work, Stack will serve as a one-man accident response officer in his reserve career. When he returned to the department in uniform just days after he officially retired, some of Stack s fellow officers said they did not even know 1 had retired. Stack's decision to retire came when he found out that Teresa, his wife of 35 years, had cancer. Instead of being a full-time police officer and a part-time caregiver. I ll be a full-time caregiver and a part-time police officer. My wife felt bad and said, You are going to leave because of me?' But I told her isn't that what a husban