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Jacocks holds the record for serving the most years with a single police department in Maryland, Bader said.
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Along the way, Jacocks worked in four precincts, special operations and the detective bureau, among other things.
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Officers can retire after 25 years of duty, including military service, so Jacocks could have retired twice, Bader said.
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"He's a great officer and a really interesting guy; he's been around," said Walter Bader, immediate past president of the Montgomery chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police, who once worked with Jacocks.
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During his time of service, Jacocks has seen the Montgomery department evolve from a 180-man force charged with protecting fewer than 200,000 people to one of more than 1,100 sworn officers serving close to 1 million residents.
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Jacocks said he has no plans to leave the department.
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When Jacocks started, he was issued a uniform, a .38 Colt revolver, a pencil and a pad of paper.
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For many of his peers in the department, Jacocks -- a quiet, soft-spoken man of 77 -- is a stalwart and dependable officer whose more than five decades of service reflect devotion to his community.
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From watching soldiers march into the District, in response to the riots that followed the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, to taking calls during the weeks of the sniper killings in 2002, Jacocks has witnessed the county's recent history unfold.
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From increased academic requirements for cadet applicants to the expanded use of technology, being an officer is not the same as it was 55 years ago, Jacocks said.
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