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| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | ||||||
| 3 | Representatives wish to congratulate Westmont Police Chief | ||||||
| 4 | Thomas Mulhearn on the occasion of his retirement after 39 | ||||||
| 5 | years of service; and
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| 6 | WHEREAS, Chief Mulhearn began his law enforcement career in | ||||||
| 7 | 1974 as a
dispatcher for the Broadview Police Department; in | ||||||
| 8 | 1977, he joined the Westmont Police Department, where he served | ||||||
| 9 | as Patrolman,
Detective/Juvenile Officer, Sergeant, Detective | ||||||
| 10 | Division Commander, Deputy Chief of Police,
and Acting Chief of | ||||||
| 11 | Police; and | ||||||
| 12 | WHEREAS, Chief Mulhearn was appointed Chief of Police in | ||||||
| 13 | October of 2009; and
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| 14 | WHEREAS, Chief Mulhearn received the Joseph T. Gutak | ||||||
| 15 | Memorial Award as Juvenile Officer of the
year for DuPage | ||||||
| 16 | County in 1998; in March of 2007, he received the inaugural | ||||||
| 17 | Public Safety Officer
of the Year Award from the Westmont | ||||||
| 18 | Chamber of Commerce; he was elected President of
the DuPage | ||||||
| 19 | Juvenile Officers Association in 2002 and currently serves as | ||||||
| 20 | the First Vice
President of the DuPage County Chiefs of Police | ||||||
| 21 | Association; in 2008, he received the Paul
Harris Fellowship | ||||||
| 22 | Award from the Westmont Rotary Club; and
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| 1 | WHEREAS, Chief Mulhearn is a graduate of Triton Community | ||||||
| 2 | College and completed his basic law
enforcement training at the | ||||||
| 3 | Chicago Police Academy in 1977; he has attended training | ||||||
| 4 | classes
at Northwestern University, the University of | ||||||
| 5 | Illinois, and the United States Department of Homeland Security
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| 6 | Center for Domestic Preparedness in Anniston, Alabama; in July | ||||||
| 7 | of 2007, he attended the
230th session of the Federal Bureau of | ||||||
| 8 | Investigations National Academy in Quantico, Virginia; he is | ||||||
| 9 | currently a member of the FBI National Academy Alumni | ||||||
| 10 | Association; and
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| 11 | WHEREAS, Chief Mulhearn has resided in Westmont since 1977 | ||||||
| 12 | with his wife, Joanne, and his daughter, Kelly; therefore, be | ||||||
| 13 | it
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| 14 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | ||||||
| 15 | NINETY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | ||||||
| 16 | congratulate Westmont Police Chief Thomas Mulhearn on his | ||||||
| 17 | retirement after 39 years of service and we wish him the best | ||||||
| 18 | in all his future endeavors; and be it further
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| 19 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
| 20 | presented to Chief Mulhearn as an expression of our esteem and | ||||||
| 21 | respect.
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