My Law Enforcement Career

1968 Departmental Photo

In July of 1967 I started my career in the City of Westland, population 88,000. Westland had been incorporated as a City the previous year. Prior to it’s incorporation, Westland was the old Nankin Township. I was hired with a group of thirteen recruits that brought the department’s compliment to 42 officers. Only a few of us had no prior law enforcement experience. We received one week of in-house training and then put on the road with a senior officer.

At that time there were no certification requirements for new officers. Several months later I was sent to the Police Academy at Oakland Community College.

1967 to 1972, City of Westland; 1972 to 1977 City of Chelsea; 1977 to 1981 Police Chief, Leoni Township, Jackson County; 1981 to 2000 Police Chief of Marshall, Calhoun County; 2002 to 2010, after retirement I accepted a position in the 10th District Court as a Magistrate.

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