Retiring public safety director credits family, faith and teamwork for success
After more than four decades in law enforcement most recently, as Grosse Pointe Shores’ public safety director John Schulte will be retiring Jan. 26.
Photo by K. Michelle Moran
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GROSSE POINTE SHORES He’s worn different uniforms and had different titles during his more than 40 years in law enforcement, but there’s been one important constant that’s been a part of the dress code for Grosse Pointe Shores Public Safety Director John Schulte.
Affixed to the protective trauma plate underneath those uniforms has been a medal of St. Michael the patron saint of police officers that Schulte’s mother, a nurse and devout Catholic, gave him when he first decided to go into law enforcement.