i started with the Metropolitan Alliance of Police in April 1996, serving on the Board of Directors. In 2001, I was elected to the Executive Board as Secretary. My police experience began in 1976 when I started working as a cadet for the Harper College Public Safety Department. I became a dispatcher for the Illinois Department of Law Enforcement and then the Hoffman Estates Police Department. In May of 1980, I was sworn in as a police officer in Mount Prospect. I retired from the Mount Prospect Police Department in June of 2008. I served as a union representative for the Mount Prospect chapter for 18 years, either as the president or vice president of the chapter.