Whether it was bringing justice to homicide victims or juveniles who’d been sexually assaulted, St. Paul (MN) Police Commander Trish Englund would not stop until she had solved a case.
She brought her tenacity to the St. Paul Police Department for more than 30 years and, more recently, to her own battle with cancer.
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Englund, 54, was diagnosed in January. She died Monday at home in Maplewood.
“She took it on with a sense of humor,” said St. Paul police officer Sandy Kennedy, a friend of Englund’s. “She fought it with laughter and everyone jumped in and helped her with it.”
Englund was born Dec. 29, 1961, and grew up in St. Paul’s Hamline-Midway. She then lived and worked on the city’s East Side for 25 years. “She is a St. Paul girl born and raised, through and through,” said Patrick Scott, Englund’s husband.
After joining the St. Paul Police Department as a records clerk in 1983, Englund went on to work as a parking enforcement officer, and was hired as a police officer in 1993. She later spent about nine years as a homicide investigator, and separately investigated sex crimes, gang crimes and more. She most recently was a watch commander.
