For one Galt Police Explorer program graduate, exposure to
occupation was best part - News - Mobile  back Side Panel
From about the age of 12, Lodi Police Officer Nick Welton was
interested in being a police officer.  He was a Lodi News-
Sentinel delivery boy and had several police officers on his
paper route, including Lodi Police Officers Jim Mize and Larry
Helwig.  "Both were like mentors to me, and always took the time
to answer any questions I had about their job," Welton said.
But it wasn't until six years later that a mutual friend
introduced him to the Galt Police Explorer program. The friend
learned of his interest in being a police officer and asked if
he wanted to be a part of it.  Welton was accepted into the
program in 1988 and regularly attended meetings as an Explorer
through 1991.  He said the best part about being an Explorer was
the exposure to the job of being a police officer. Even then,
the Explorers often rode with police officers and assisted them
with the use of the police radio and