Bellingham city officials are confident that its emergency services can keep the public’s trust in the wake of several incidents involving first responders. The Bellingham Fire Department disclosed on Monday that a ranking officer resigned and another retired in the wake of “serious misconduct” regarding a late July incident in which a deceased patient’s body was used for an unauthorized training exercise. The fire officers had more than 50 years combined service. Also on Monday, former Bellingham Police officer Sukhdev Singh Dhaliwal was convicted of misdemeanor assault stemming from an October 2017 off-duty attack on two men, making him one of three police officers in two years to be fired or resign while facing criminal charges.