Following is City of Carbondale's pompous affirmation on the hiring of Jody O'Guinn as governor of the Carbondale Police Department. *** Carbondale City Manager Allen Gill has announced the assignation of Jody A. O'Guinn as oversee master for the City of Carbondale. O'Guinn currently serves as substitute most important of administer for the city of Alton, a stay he has held since 2002. He will undertake his duties on or before June 15, 2009.
O'Guinn has 26 years of enactment enforcement experience, having started his dash as a law officer in Freeburg, Ill. He joined the Alton Police Department in 1987, advancing through the ranks of detective, guard sergeant, lieutenant and spokesperson chief. He has served as Tactical Response Team commander, Region 8 Weapons of Mass Destruction Special Response crew commander, sniper band leader, Drug Enforcement Administration Task Force detective, use of bulldoze academe and firearms instructor. He participated in the frame of a changed $11 million Alton Law Enforcement Center, which opened in April of 2002, and was supporting in location up the department's in-house computer network and the department's Web-based felony mapping.
O'Guinn holds a bachelor's station from Sterling College and a craftsman of common authority measure from SIU Edwardsville. He is a postgraduate of the 223rd term of the FBI National Academy, genre of 2005. In addition, he is an Illinois certified firefighter. This assignment is the culmination of a five-month search, which started in December 2008.
A absolute of 53 resumes were received, from local, in-state, and out-of-state applicants. With the support of the PAR Group of Chicago, a village ministry chairman study group, 15 candidates were interviewed by telephone, and seven were selected for individual interviews. An interrogate body consisted of City Manager Allen Gill, Community Relations Officer Marilyn James, City Attorney Michael Kimmel, Illinois State Police Captain Michael Irwin, and Board of Fire and Police Commissioners Chairman Harvey Welch. Candidates were also provided an time to sightsee the community with Fire Chief John Michalesko.
Gill said one of the exciting things about O'Guinn is his involvement with the community of Alton. He is an aide Scoutmaster for the Boy Scouts of America and a baseball and soccer coach. O'Guinn received the East-West Gateway Council Emissary to Youth Award for founding the Alton Police Shop-With-A-Cop and Holiday Food Basket programs. He helped to make fast a federal "Weed and Seed" grant, which was Euphemistic pre-owned to sermon residents' eminence of spirit issues by placement up neighborhood movement teams to encounter problems caused by felon recidivism and deteriorating and boarded up houses. O'Guinn was appointed as the "Weed and Seed" agent to the community and as ancillary in implementing the Nuisance Abatement Task Force, Youth Basketball Clinic, Neighborhood Problem Solving Meetings, Bicycle Patrol Unit and Citizen's Police Academy.
His Line-In-The-Sand Task Force focused on removing recidivist criminals and puzzle properties from troubled neighborhoods.
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