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BAKERSFIELD POLICE DEPARTMENT PRESS RELEASE Greg Williamson, Chief of Police Contact: Sergeant Mary DeGeare Public Information Officer 661-326-3803 mdegeare@Bakersfieldpd.us For Immediate
Release February 11, 2010 The Bakersfield Police Department is searching for additional witnesses to an internal/criminal investigation. On Sunday, February 6, 2011, the Department received
information that a Bakersfield Police officer was participating in sex acts with a local prostitute while on duty. Subsequent investigation revealed that since August 2010, Officer Albert
Smith Jr. had paid for and participated in sex acts with at least three local prostitutes while on and off duty. The investigation was reviewed by the Kern County District Attorney’s
Office and a warrant was obtained for 7 counts of engaging in an act of prostitution. Albert Smith resigned his commission as an officer on Tuesday, February 8, 2011; he was arrested
and booked into the Kern County Jail for the warrant on February 11, 2011. Albert Smith had been an officer for the Department since July of 2007. The criminal investigation is ongoing.
Anyone with information regarding this investigation is encouraged to call Detective Keli Reed at 326-3544. California Penal Code 647(b) states the following: Every person who commits
any of the following acts is guilty of disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor: (b) Who solicits or who agrees to engage in or who engages in any act of prostitution. A person agrees to engage
in an act of prostitution when, with specific intent to so engage, he or she manifests an acceptance of an offer or solicitation to so engage, regardless of whether the offer or solicitation
was made by a person who also possessed the specific intent to engage in prostitution. No agreement to engage in an act of prostitution shall constitute a violation of this subdivision
unless some act, in addition to the agreement, is done within this state in furtherance of the commission of an act of prostitution by the person agreeing to engage in that act. As As
used in this subdivision, "prostitution" includes any lewd act between persons for money or other consideration.