Full Text of HR0204 97th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives are pleased to congratulate Noel Oliver on his | 4 | | retirement as Director of the McDonough County 9-1-1 system; | 5 | | and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, Noel Oliver was born in 1944 in East St. Louis; as | 7 | | a young man he was a very active member of the Boy Scouts and | 8 | | began to develop his leadership skills as well as a sense of | 9 | | commitment to public service, both of which have been his | 10 | | lifelong trademark; he graduated from East St. Louis Senior | 11 | | High School and has since attended Southern Illinois University | 12 | | at East St. Louis, Grossmont Jr. College in El Cajon, | 13 | | California, Western Illinois University, Sangamon State | 14 | | University, and the University of Virginia; and
| 15 | | WHEREAS, In 1965, he married his high school sweetheart, | 16 | | Judy R. Abbett, and they have a son, Adam; and | 17 | | WHEREAS, He started his career in law enforcement with the | 18 | | St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department in 1964; he began | 19 | | there as a cadet, writing parking tickets in downtown St. | 20 | | Louis, and was later assigned a walking beat in the downtown | 21 | | area; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, He began his career with the Illinois State Police | 2 | | in 1968; by finishing with the top academic score, he was | 3 | | allowed to select his assignment within the State and selected | 4 | | the Macomb district without ever having been to the area; and | 5 | | WHEREAS, In 1972, he was promoted to Corporal and assigned | 6 | | a supervisor role in the nine counties of District 14; in 1976, | 7 | | he was promoted to Sergeant and assigned to the Springfield | 8 | | office as the Director of Statewide Air Operations, the Command | 9 | | Center, the Hazardous Materials Section, and the Vehicle | 10 | | Investigations Unit; in 1978, he was promoted to Lieutenant and | 11 | | returned to Macomb as second-in-command; in 1979, he was | 12 | | promoted to Captain and assigned as the District Commander of | 13 | | District 14 in Macomb; and
| 14 | | WHEREAS, In 1986, he was selected to serve as a visiting | 15 | | lecturer to the Taiwan National Police Academy; his main | 16 | | emphasis was to teach a new and developing approach to handling | 17 | | hostage situations; and
| 18 | | WHEREAS, In 1989, he was selected to attend and later | 19 | | graduated from the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Virginia | 20 | | for advanced training; and | 21 | | WHEREAS, He retired from the Illinois State Police in 1993; | 22 | | shortly after retirement he was selected to create an Enhanced |
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| 1 | | 9-1-1 system for McDonough County from scratch; he laid the | 2 | | groundwork for the current system and served in that capacity | 3 | | until a director could be selected to begin the actual | 4 | | operations; and | 5 | | WHEREAS, In 1993, he was selected to serve as a Traffic | 6 | | Safety Consultant with the Illinois Department of | 7 | | Transportation and Eastern Illinois University; beginning in | 8 | | 1995, he developed a marketing company to provide select | 9 | | equipment to law enforcement agencies in the Midwest; his | 10 | | hand-selected products included Stop Sticks and Fatal Vision | 11 | | goggles; and | 12 | | WHEREAS, In February of 2003, he was recruited to again | 13 | | take a role in the local 9-1-1 system and serve as an Interim | 14 | | Director; in his position as director of 9-1-1, he serves on | 15 | | the McDonough County Employee Safety Committee, the Employee | 16 | | Handbook Committee, the Local Emergency Planning Committee, | 17 | | and the Geographic Information System Committee; therefore, be | 18 | | it
| 19 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 20 | | NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 21 | | we congratulate Noel Oliver on his retirement and wish him all | 22 | | the best in his future endeavors; and be it further
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| 1 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 2 | | presented to Noel Oliver as a symbol of our respect and esteem.
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