Served 2002-2007

David G. Draveling (Photo courtesy of the Issaquah Police Department).

Dave completed his Law Enforcement Degree in Michigan and completed the Police Academy as a private citizen. “That was when they were laying officers off due to the recession.”

Dave’s son, also a police officer in the City of Snoqualmie, carries on that tradition as a third generation police officer.

Dave has had a very exciting and colorful career with Issaquah, where he started his Law Enforcement career 21 years ago as an undercover police officer. He completed three tours of undercover narcotics investigating in 1980, 82, & 84.

Dave worked four years as a patrol officer, six years as a sergeant, nine years as a captain, three years as Deputy Chief and between 2002 and 2007, he served as department’s Interim Chief of Police. He remembers when there were no traffic signals in Issaquah and there were only 10 officers including the chief. There were many night shifts worked alone and back up was sometimes 20 minutes away.

Served in 1959

Forrest Goodrow

Chief Goodrow started his career with the Issaquah Police Department in February 1959. It was a two-officer department in those days as the city had a population of around 1,500.

The department had one patrol car, a 1958 Chevrolet equipped with a radio that utilized the King County Sheriff’s frequency. When an officer was needed, the dispatchers would turn on a pole-mounted red light that was located in the ball field.  If the officer didn’t see the light and didn’t respond to the call, the dispatcher would call the Sheriff’s Office and have them call the officer on the car radio. Eventually the IPD got it’s own base radio so it’s dispatchers could communicate directly with the officers.

Forrest Goodrow and two other officers stand on the steps of Issaquah’s Town Hal.

Forrest recollects that the first police station was upstairs in the old city hall in two small rooms at the back of the building. There was a small jail in the basement, and more than once the prisoners would receive liquor or beer that had been passed though the street level windows!

A police/fire dispatcher lived in two rooms in the City Hall.  She was expected to answer the telephones 24 hours a day, seven days a week!  This was long before the 9-1-1 system was implemented and the dispatcher worked solo for the most part, and fielded all types of  emergency and non-emergency calls.

Forrest assisted the King County Sheriff’s Department and the Coroner’s Office, and had commissions from both agencies. He also worked with the State Patrol on various details.

He described one incident in which two small children had been playing in a shallow sunken hole on Mountain Park Blvd. The children had been overcome by mine gas seeping from the olds mines in the area and when two officers responded to assist, they too were incapacitated.  Fortunately, the fire department arrived and rescued everyone without serious or permanent injury.

Forrest left the department in 1971. He was employed as a heavy equipment operator in San Juan County and later worked for the State of Washington.

Forrest passed away on March 28, 2002 and was buried on his beloved Lopez Island. His wife, Ona Jean, survives him.

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Forrest Goodrow. (Photo contributed by the Issaquah Police Department)

Chief Goodrow accepting the keys of a new 1960 Chevrolet patrol car from Ted Stonebrudge, owner of the Stonebridge Chevrolet dealership.