MPD’s first woman motorcycle cop retires — sort of
Lt. Tina Halfacre will soon be retiring from the Memphis Police Department where works with motorcycle unit. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
When Evertina Halfacre joined the Memphis Police Department in 1986, she was just looking for something to pay the bills.
“I was fresh out of divorce and I needed a job,” she said in a recent interview. “I applied for the police department and got in on the first time.”
Now 39 years later, Halfacre, the Memphis Police Department’s first woman to lead its motorcycle unit, is hanging it up — sort of. She won’t be full time, but Memphians may still catch her out on the streets.
“I wasn’t going to quit”
Nearly a quarter of a century after she joined, Halfacre had risen through the ranks from patrol officer to sergeant and then finally to lieutenant.
Larry Godwin, the police director at the time, asked her to join the department’s motorcycle unit that year. She had never tried to get in before, but growing up, she lived and breathed the two-wheeled speed machines.
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Aarron Fleming
Aarron Fleming covers public safety for The Daily Memphian, focusing on crime and the local court system. He earned his bachelor’s in journalism and strategic media from the University of Memphis.
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