Full Text of HR1183 93rd General Assembly
HR1183 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, Chief of Police Francis G. DioGuardi is retiring | 3 |
| after 33 years of dedicated service in the Police Department of | 4 |
| the Village of Park Forest; and
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| WHEREAS, Francis G. DioGuardi has been in the Park Forest | 6 |
| area since 1970; on September 16, 1971, he was sworn in as a | 7 |
| patrol officer for the Park Forest Police Department; in the | 8 |
| patrol division, he distinguished himself by establishing | 9 |
| several community outreach programs fostering positive | 10 |
| police/youth interaction and he was a department spokesman in | 11 |
| the local school systems on child safety, stranger danger, and | 12 |
| sexual assault prevention; and
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| WHEREAS, In 1981, he was assigned to the Detective/Juvenile | 14 |
| Division where he investigated serious crimes and established a | 15 |
| close working relationship with the Juvenile Justice System; in | 16 |
| 1982, he was appointed Director of Crime Prevention and Youth | 17 |
| Services within the Police Department; during his eight years | 18 |
| in this position, he established several meaningful community | 19 |
| policing programs; and
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| WHEREAS, He was one of the first 30 DARE officers in the | 21 |
| State of Illinois in 1985 and taught the curriculum in three | 22 |
| school districts in the Village; he served as Executive | 23 |
| Director of Region II Operation Snowball and worked on the Rich | 24 |
| Township High School District Operation Snowball; as a founding | 25 |
| member of the South Suburban Council on Sexual Assault, he was | 26 |
| instrumental in rewriting the sexual assault statutes of | 27 |
| Illinois and helped create the Domestic Violence Act of 1986; | 28 |
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| WHEREAS, In 1989, he served as President of the South | 30 |
| Suburban Juvenile Officers Association; in 1990, he was | 31 |
| promoted to the rank of Corporal and assumed the duties of |
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| first-line supervisor in the Patrol Division and served as a | 2 |
| department hostage negotiator; in 1995, he was promoted to the | 3 |
| rank of Sergeant and served as a shift Watch Commander; and
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| WHEREAS, In 1999, he was designated a Commander and | 5 |
| provided input and direction to the Police Department | 6 |
| Administration as part of the management team; he also served | 7 |
| on the policy board of the Dating Violence Prevention Education | 8 |
| Program at Rich Township High School District 227; in 2000, he | 9 |
| was promoted to the rank of Captain and served as head of | 10 |
| operations for the Police Department; he assumed the duties of | 11 |
| Chief of Police in the absence of the Chief; and
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| WHEREAS, In July 2003, Chief DioGuardi was appointed | 13 |
| Interim Chief of Police, assuming overall management of the | 14 |
| Park Forest Police Department; he was appointed permanent Chief | 15 |
| of Police for the Park Forest Police Department in 2003; | 16 |
| therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 18 |
| NINETY-THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 19 |
| congratulate Chief of Police Francis G. DioGuardi on the | 20 |
| occasion of his retirement from the Park Forest Police | 21 |
| Department after 33 years of service; we thank him for his | 22 |
| exemplary service and we wish him all the best in his future | 23 |
| endeavors; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 25 |
| presented to Chief DioGuardi as an expression of our respect | 26 |
| and esteem.
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