New Officers, Firefighters Sworn in At Village Hall
The Skokie Police Department will be getting new officers to replace existing vacancies. Meanwhile, the fire department is set to gain two additional firefighters.
Four officers and two firefighters were sworn in at Tuesday’s village board meeting. The four new officers are set to replace several vacancies at the Skokie Police Department. “This is an evening of celebration, but it takes a lot of work to bring in six new hires,” said Skokie Mayor George Van Dusen. The four new officers weren’t alone on Tuesday night. Family and friends were also present and applauded the achievement. “They’ll be replacing existing vacancies, go through various training at the police academy,” said Police Chief Anthony Scarpelli. “They’ll be doing field training, too, with veteran officers, and should be able to ride solo in seven months.” Matt Dickinson, Leo Feldman, Patrick Howe and Jaclyn Roden will all be “riding …
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Seymour J. Schwartz
2:43 pm on Wednesday, January 23, 2013
More police is a good thing. However the mayor and other officials have said for a while that they would like to eventually add an additional 5 or 6 new policemen. Is Ms. Ulrich and Ralph Klein just parroting these ideas as a wish list or do the mayor and the Trustees really intend to do so soon. If the latter is so, then why haven't they publicly said so and why has it not been in the recent new… more ›