Chief Curtis Caid has served as the Livonia Police Department’s leader for the past 10 years. He will retire Jan. 1, 2022, and the position will be filled by Livonia Police Captain Thomas Goralski.
Chief Mitchell R. Davis III, chief of police of the Hazel Crest Police Department, is the first Black president of the Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police. Chief Davis began his career in law enforcement in Park Forest. (PHOTO SUPPLIED)
Chief Davis is the Association’s First Black President
Chief Mitchell R. Davis III, chief of police of the Hazel Crest Police Department, was installed Friday, April 30, 2021, as president of the Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police. The ceremony occurred at Homewood-Flossmoor High School with family members and other chiefs from the south suburbs as special guests. Attendance was limited due to the pandemic.
May 12, 2021 MACOMB, IL Derek Watts, the interim director of the Western Illinois University s Office of Public Safety (OPS), has been named the director of the department, effective June 1. Watts has served as the interim director since March 2019. He becomes the first internal candidate named to the director/chief position.
Watts joined OPS in 1998 as a patrol officer. He was promoted to corporal in 2006 and to sergeant in 2009. A 1996 and 2015 graduate of the WIU School of Law Enforcement and Justice Administration, Watts was promoted to lieutenant in 2018. He started his law enforcement career with the Bushnell Police Department in 1996. Before joining the Office of Public Safety, Watts worked as a police officer for the Morton Police Department.
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Surprise has narrowed its police chief search to six finalists and expects to name a new police chief by the end of the month, city officials announced Monday.
The northwest Valley suburb s former chief, Terry Young, stepped down in January to become Surprise s assistant city manager. Young had led the city s Police Department since 2015 after joining the Surprise department in 2010.
Assistant Police Chief Geoffrey Leggett was named interim chief. Leggett first joined the city force in 2011 and is one of the finalists for the position. The others include Aaron Jelcick, Daniel O Neil, Benny Pina, Robert Sanders and Doug Shoemaker.
The city received 62 applications for police chief. Three of the six candidates are local to Arizona, two are from Washington and one is from Colorado. Here are the six finalists.