By Brenda Ortiz August 28, 2025 After 20 years with UC Merced, Tamela Adkins retires from the police department. On Aug. 12, 2005, less than one month before UC Merced opened its doors to undergraduate students, Tamela Adkins joined the campus’s Police Department as support services manager. Intially, her role included managing records and evidence, overseeing the police dispatch center and hiring. She later added responsibility for the administrative unit and a federally required annual re...
