Officer Profile Taylor Durnil

Officer Taylor Durnil says it’s the “gray area” of police work - the opportunity to create individualized solutions for the people she comes in contact with and their families - that keeps her motivated. Shortly after graduating from Western Washington University with a degree in Psychology four years ago, Taylor was on the verge of going to graduate school when she changed course and started looking into police work as a way to help her community. “Every situation is going to be different…so you have to really keep an open mind,” Taylor says. “Remember the laws that you're trying to enforce and remember the solutions that you're trying to get to. What I really appreciate, is just having the ability to go out and do my job and do it the way that I see fit, you know, and I think Seattle really encourages us using our best judgment.”