Mount Prospect s elected leaders on Tuesday honored retiring Police Chief John Koziol, who rounded out a 36-year law enforcement career with an eventful four years at the helm of the village s force.
The local headlines were dominated in 2021 by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the sale of a suburban jewel Arlington Park as a potential new home of the Chicago Bears. But that was far from all that happened during another eventful year.
Mount Prospect reached closure Tuesday on the issue of the controversial "thin blue line" patch, when it handed out a check from money raised by sales of the decommissioned patches to a fund for fallen first responders at police headquarters.
Early next year, the Lake County sheriff s office and six local police departments will launch a new program that will team deputies and police officers with a social worker, clinician or peer specialist to form a sort of rapid response unit for calls involving a mental health crisis.
The Mount Prospect Police Department has received top honors for its new headquarters facility in the 2021 Law Enforcement Design Awards, sponsored by Officer Magazine.