Images: Mundelein Police Department #TBT Gallery
This week's Throwback Thursday (#TBT) Gallery features the Mundelein Police Department 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.
According to the Village of Mundelein Communications Manager Dawn Jenich, Marshal Tiffany was authorized to arrest horseback riders in Diamond Lake, instructed to keep ball-playing off the streets, and given authorization to purchase eight police clubs. 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. In fact, when Clayton Tiffany resigned as police chief in 1942, his replacement, Jesse Shields, was given four other jobs as well. In addition to being chief of police, Shields was named chief air raid warden, collector of water bills and licenses, assistant to John Dietz (then Head of the Street Department), and part-time janitor at Village Hall, all for $160 a month
In conjunction with recognizing the Mundelein Police Department for more than 100 years of law enforcement to the community, the Mundelein Police Statue Committee is working to raise funds to have a life-size bronze statue featuring a police officer holding the hands of two children created and installed in front of the police department on Route 45.
For more information on the Mundelein Police Statue Fund, visit www.mundelein.org/policestatue.
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