Bob Herst
Detective
Bellevue Police Department

Detective Herst has been in law enforcement since 1976.  He started with the San Diego County Sheriff's Department and worked in the jail which was a maximum security detention center and then was assigned to patrol until joining Bellevue Police Department (PD) in April 1982.  Since coming to the Belleveue PD, he has completed two separate tours in the Multi-Agency Eastside Narcotics Task Force (1984-1985 and 1989-1991).  Detective Herst formally represented the Bellevue PD on a Organized Crime Task Force chaired by a representative of the United States Attorney's Office in Seattle and has testified in front of a Federal Grand Jury.  In 1997, he was assigned to the Fraud Unit at the Bellevue PD.  He usually carries a minimum of 35 cases and is a member of a mortgage fraud task force operated through the King County Prosecutors Office.  The largest single case Detective Herst investigated, filed, and won a conviction on was a $4.2 million embezzlement in Bellevue that required a spreadsheet documenting 1,200 checks over a 9-year period.

Detective Herst has a Bachelor of the Arts Degree from National University, Vista, California campus and was in the U. S. Marines from 1968 to 1972.  While in the Marines, Detective Herst served in Vietnam between 1969 and 1971.  He is a member of the Northwest Fraud Investigators Association, Pacific Northwest Tax, License Association, and the Eastern European Organized Crime Investigators Association of British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon.

Last modified: March 03, 2008