Mundelein Police Department through the years
One of the early acts of the Mundelein board of trustees was the appointment of a village marshal. A.J. King got the job in August 1909, at the salary of $1.50 per day.
Clayton Tiffany was hired as the village's first “permanent” marshal in 1926.
Tiffany was authorized to purchase eight police clubs, arrest horseback riders in Diamond Lake and keep ball-playing off the streets. Three years later, he was appointed the village's first police chief.
In 1940, Mundelein's population was 1,100, still small enough for a one-man police force.
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