Founding UC Merced Staffer Wraps Up 45 Years in Law Enforcement
On Aug. 12, 2005, less than one month before UC Merced opened its doors to undergraduate students, Tamela Adkins joined the campus’s Police Department as support services manager.
Intially, her role included managing records and evidence, overseeing the police dispatch center and hiring. She later added responsibility for the administrative unit and a federally required annual report of security policy and crime statistics..
Tears filled her eyes as she expressed what the past 20 years have meant to her.