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Bakersfield Police Department is thinking about using a polygraph, a tool that will soon be used for background checks of potential officers, on a new property room supervisor. The person hired for the job will not be a sworn officer, and therefore will not be mandatory for him or her to take a polygraph. But the Civil Service Commission discussed Wednesday morning whether they should require certain citizen employees to take the test. Background checks are already administered, minus polygraphs. The idea stems from reports of gun thefts from the Kern County Sheriff’s Department’s property room by a part-time employee. Sheriff Donny Youngblood said he was outraged and embarrassed. The “extra help” employee, Edgard Luis Nava, 18, and two other men were taken into custody after it was discovered 20 handguns were missing from the property room. In 2001, about 2.2 pounds of cocaine went missing from the property room. Investigators were never able...
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