On Wednesday, February 26, 2014, a Resolution (SJR46) sponsored by Senator Jason Barickman (R-53rd District) was read and voted on by the Illinois Senate honoring Pontiac Officer Casey Kohlmeier, who was killed in the line of duty with his K-9 partner Draco last Fall. The Resolution pays honor to Officer Kohlmeier’s public service and designates a section of Interstate 55 between Exit 197 and 202 as the Officer Casey J. Kohlmeier Memorial Highway.
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The deadline for the Hobart "Curley" Rogers Scholarship is March 1, 2014. Applicants must be a son or daughter of a PB&PA member in good standing with the Association.
During the hasty legislative process of reforming the State Employees’ Retirement System in 2010, a Tier 2 benefit structure was created for law enforcement employees hired after January 1, 2011. An inadvertent change was made to the definition of “state police officer” in the process, and as a result three groups of Illinois police officers hired after 1/1/11 are excluded: Illinois Conservation Officers, Secretary of State Police Officers, and Capitol Police Officers.
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