Investigation of part-time CCH cops reveals questionable backgrounds
By CASEY TOnER and Lauren Fitzpatrick ctoner@southtownstar.com September 23, 2011
Suspended driver’s licenses, theft convictions, lengthy traffic records, charges of driving stolen cars and possessing unregistered guns.
That may be expected from some of the riff-raff Country Club Hills police officers introduce to handcuffs. A SouthtownStar review of the city’s 11 part-time police officers hired last year, however, shows some have had similar issues with the law.
One Markham man is claiming an officer, who is also a relative, in 2006 convinced him and his wife to give a $75,000 loan to Police Chief Regina Evans, who organized the program and hired the officers.
Many of the officers’ job applications did not list their brushes with the law, the newspaper analysis found. They also bypassed the city’s police and fire commission which tests, interviews and investigates all police officer and firefighter candidates.
