He is part of the Community outreach program? Is that the one they say he volunteers his time to while living in his Big home out in Crete? I never heard that myself. But let take a look see.
Officer Farrakhan does, though, appear to do “police work” off-duty,
more than a dozen miles outside Harvey city limits, in Chicago, where he uses his Harvey squad car’s lights to stop traffic and escorts his father’s unofficial motorcade, a Chicago Sun-Times investigation has found.
The unusual arrangement that allows him to carry a concealed gun into places where regular citizens can’t, and to drive a police car, despite apparently failing to do regular police work for the suburb that employs him, may be especially useful to the man who leads the Nation of Islam’s “Fruit of Islam” security detail.
Instead Eaves issued a statement describing Farrakhan as a “volunteer” police officer whose appointment he “stands behind.”
“Officer Farrakhan assists the Police Department with community relations, in its quest to strengthen ties between police and the community,” the chief wrote.
The statement does not address the fact that Farrakhan lives half an hour’s drive south of Harvey, in Crete.
It’s a statement the chief may have to expand upon. The Illinois Police Standards and Training Board this week opened an investigation into Farrakhan, the board’s deputy director, Larry Smith, said.
Once he had qualified as a sworn officer, Farrakhan worked just nine hours in the first half of 2007, upped his workload to 14 hours in the second half of that year, put in a yeoman-like 118 1/2 hours in the second half of 2008, before beginning an absence that continues to the present day, according to records Harvey Police filed with the state.
Farrakhan’s squad car, a black, high-mileage Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor, was purchased used from Palatine Police Department on Aug. 28, 2008 — right in the middle of his busiest period as a cop.
Records from the Illinois Secretary of State showed that Farrakhan signed the title over to the city, using the name “Wallace Farrakhan,” which he prefers on all official police documents.
Official Chicago Police escorts are normally reserved for high-ranking public officials and foreign dignitaries. They typically have to be cleared by the Department’s Special Events and Liaison Unit, according to Chicago Police spokesman Adam Collins. But “the CPD does not provide Louis Farrakhan with a motorcade,” Collins said, and it “doesn’t have any record of such a request.”
Illinois law does allow police officers to use their powers anywhere in the state, according to John Millner, a former Republican state senator, Elmhurst Police chief and head of the Illinois Police Chief’s Association.
But by custom, cops are supposed to use their powers outside their jurisdiction only in an emergency, in areas immediately contiguous to their jurisdiction, or at the invitation of the department whose area they’re in, he said.
He adds: “What is the nexus between this man’s security work for the Nation of Islam, and his employment as a Harvey police officer?”.....snip~
Farrakhan son is part-time Harvey cop but hasn
Although Harvey Police has had quite a few problems.....especially under this Mayor. Though in Farrakhan's defense......I doubt he is part of all the Beatings that take place inside that Police Dept. Might be cuz he is a Community Relations Officer.....huh?
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