Shayne LaCroix

Commander Shayne La Croix was born in Fairbanks, Alaska in 1976, and moved to the Mat-Su Valley in 1988.  He attended Houston Jr./Sr. High, and upon graduation in 1994, he attended the University of Alaska Fairbanks where he received a B.A. in Criminal Justice with a minor in Human Service Technology.  Following college, he attended the 1998 Interior Alaska Police Academy, and was hired as a patrol officer for the Soldotna Police Department in December 1998. He joined the Palmer Police Department in November 2002 as a patrol officer, in October 2005 he was promoted to the rank of sergeant and to Commander in December of 2019.