Peoria Police Chief Marion To Retire Next Month
Dana Vollmer / WCBU Peoria Police Chief Loren Marion III is retiring next month. Marion has been with the Peoria Police Department for 26 years. Law enforcement careers are a family tradition. His grandfather, Frank Smith, was the Bellevue police chief. And Marion's father was a Peoria patrolman for three decades before his 2009 retirement from the department. “I feel the Department is moving in the right direction. We are ahead of many agencies throughout the country in our policies/procedures, technology and training," said Marion in a prepared statement on Monday. During Marion's tenur...
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