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Officer Gina Battaglia
It is with a heavy heart we mourn the loss of one of Santa Barbara Police’s finest, Police Officer and Dispatch Supervisor Gina Battaglia, who passed away suddenly from a work-related illness in August 2021.
Gina joined the Santa Barbara Police Department in September 2007 as a police officer working patrol, and later was promoted to Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) officer in October 2015. One of her greatest CSI skills was finding and collecting fingerprints. If a burglar had known it was Gina investigating the crime, they would have given the crime a second thought.
In July 2018, Gina transferred to the Santa Barbara Police Combined Communications Center as a dispatcher, and later was promoted to dispatch supervisor…
