I have completed another year as your Police Chief and I hope I have represented you and the citizens of this great town proud. First I want to continue to thank you for the opportunity to
lead this police department. I cannot express enough how thankful I am to have four extraordinary officers. I try to run this department with the approach of “leading from the
front”.
This year has passed with sadness and inspiration, sadness from the innocent victims and inspiration from watching this police department give its all to bring closure to the innocent.
You all should know that being a police officer is not an easy task. The media and government has forgotten the toll this “life” takes on a police officers. I refer to this as “life” instead of “job” because a “job” you go to work and come home and repeat this day after day for years. Police officer is a “life”, we go to work and take everything we see and do home with us and the
tragedy and innocence that is taken throughout our careers is never forgotten.
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