A SENATE RESOLUTION to honor Al DeRoo, the longest
serving police officer in South Bend history.
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MADAM PRESIDENT:
I offer the following resolution and move its adoption:
A SENATE RESOLUTION to honoring Al DeRoo, the
longest serving police officer in South Bend history.
Whereas, Al DeRoo joined the South Bend Police
Department on May 16, 1963;
Whereas, Al DeRoo will retire as a sergeant from the South
Bend Police Department on March 2, 2011, after forty seven
years, nine months, and thirteen days of service;
Whereas, Al DeRoo served as patrol officer, in the juvenile
bureau, as an accident investigator, with burglary, with
robbery, in homicide, water patrol, missing persons, and finally
as detective;
Whereas, prior to his service in the South Bend Police
Department, Al DeRoo served in the United States Navy;
Whereas, Al DeRoo possesses the natural inquisitiveness
and bearing to conduct police business in a professional and
courteous manner; and
Whereas, Al DeRoo is married to his wife, Betty Lou, and
graduated from Mishawaka High School and has three
daughters, four grandchildren, and three great grand children;
therefore,