Chief Poloni Addresses Rotarians
President Fred Ollison III welcomes Grosse Pointe and Grosse Pointe Park Public Safety Director Stephen Poloni as the guest speaker at the March 21 luncheon meeting of Rotary of Grosse Pointe.
After holding this position in Grosse Pointe Shores since 2004, Chief Poloni retired in 2011 to take over in the City. Upon the same position opening in the Park in 2015, it was agreed upon by both city councils to have one person do both jobs.
Chief Poloni says that there is great collaboration between the two cities and all of the Grosse Pointes. His two departments now use the same dispatch unit, which he believes has not disrupted services for either city. Further examples of combining services in all of the Grosse Pointes is the K9 unit housed by the Farms, a special response (SWAT) team that consists of two police officers from each department, a car seat program run by the City for all, and a joint auto theft team that has helped to greatly reduce thefts and aided in their recovery.
Because the amount of crime is so minimal there are no real trends, just spikes. To help keep it this way, he asks that everyone do the simple task of locking their cars when parked.
(Photo by George R. McMullen Jr.)