The Bainbridge Island Police Department has hired four new officers.

The officers — who took their oaths at the council’s late meeting in April before a packed house full of family, friends and new coworkers — are Kurt Enget, Chuck Kazer, William Shields and Cameron Lewis.

Enget was born and raised in South Kitsap. He attended Tacoma Community College and Olympic College, and then worked at Safeway for 18 years before getting interested in law enforcement.

Enget signed on as a reserve officer with the Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office and served there for a year before accepting a full-time officer with the Suquamish Police Department, where he served for 10 years. He joined the Bainbridge department in February.

Kazer served in the Navy from 2000 to 2004, and served as a patrol officer with the city of Alcoa, Tennessee before moving with his wife to Colorado in 2007.

While in Colorado, he spent three years working as an executive director of an independent and assisted living retirement community in Greenwood Village and Aurora.

While in Greenwood Village, he served as a patrol officer, an FBI certified hostage/crisis negotiator, and was a founding member of the city’s Crisis Negotiations Team in 2011. He was also certified as a SWAT operator.

Kazer has a bachelor’s degree in social and criminal justice administration from Ashford University. He is married and has two daughters.

Shields was born and raised on Whidbey Island, but moved to Jacksonville, Florida. as a teenager. With an uncle and a grandfather who served as police officers, he decided on a career in law enforcement and earned an associate’s degree from Florida State Community College of Jacksonville.

He was hired by the Moscow Police Department in Moscow, Idaho in 2006 and served as a patrol officer for three years, a campus community police liaison for three years, and as a detective for three years, where he specialized in Internet crimes against children investigations and computer and cell phone forensics.

He has also earned a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice and criminology from Portland State University and was also awarded a master’s degree in public administration from the University of Idaho. After college, he was the part-time chief of police for Uniontown, a small farming community on the Palouse.

Lewis worked for Safeway in Ellensburg and studied law and justice at Central Washington University. He is a recent graduate of the university, and enjoys hiking, running, biking and hunting.