Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Affiliations
Certification
Timeline
Numerous Honorable Mentions, Award of Valor
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Michael St.clair II

Law Enforcement
CHICAGO,IL

Summary

Committed Law Enforcement professional with over 20 years of experience. Peer Support, Crisis Intervention, team building and years as an FTO has led to the advancement of fellow officers. Safety and good leadership is paramount! Over the years, life experience along with experiences in the field has produced a well calibrated law Enforcement professional which will always serve as an asset within the Law Enforcement community.

Overview

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Work History

Police Sergeant

Chicago Police Department
10.2024 - Current

Duties and responsibilities:

  • Attend work within the proper uniform standards as prescribed by the Chicago Police Department.
  • Ensure Police Officers are on time for Roll Call with the same standards.
  • Equipment is to be procured in order for the Officers to perform their duties in Patrol.
  • While in the field, Officers have to be logged and their calls for service are to be monitored.
  • Reports must be reviewed, approved or rejected in a timely manner.
  • After the shift, all Officers and equipment must be accounted for.
  • Occasional discipline has to be enforced as well as court attendance and training compliance.

Team Leader

Chicago Police Department
02.2021 - Current

Duties and Responsibilities:

  • EAP/Peer Support Team leader has to manage a team of Officers in order to assist Officers in need.
  • When major incidents occur in the city CPIC notifies the Team Leader on Call in order to respond to situations (officers stripped, injured, etc).
  • Ensure members of the team are active with assisting fellow members and their families when in need.
  • Delegate responsibilities to members during St. Jude, Roll Call trainings and call-outs.
  • Assist BIA when officers are being stripped at headquarters.

Police Officer

Chicago Police Department
09.2003 - Current

Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Attend Roll call within the prescribed uniform standards of the Chicago Police Department.
  • Patrol the City Of Chicago and assist citizens professionally without bias.
  • Complete reports and inventories in a timely manner before the end of the shift.
  • Engage enforcement action when needed without excessive force respective of the Sanctity of human life.
  • Attend court for arrests made in the field.
  • Return all equipment procured upon the beginning of the shift.
  • Live a life unsullied in and out of the field.
  • Maintain proper mental and physical health.

Instructor

Chicago Police Department
07.2024 - 10.2024

Duties and responsibilities of a CIT Instructor:

  • Lesson plans had to be completed and updated.
  • Classrooms and monitors/projectors were modified and utilized for instructors.
  • Role Players from NAMI were requested for scenario-based learning in the Academy as well as off-site apartment models.
  • Billing was maintained for food ordered for graduation purposes.
  • PowerPoint lessons were reviewed and presented before Supervisors of the CIT unit prior to the class presentations.
  • Graduation certificates were printed, recorded and submitted for credit.
  • A healthy classroom learning environment had to be maintained in order for the retainment of information and structure.
  • We had to work with EAP as a liaison to assist with helping persons in a Mental Health Crisis.
  • Weapons were secured in lockers during class sessions and scenarios.

Field Training Officer

Chicago Police Department
06.2017 - 07.2024

Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Present myself to PPOs within the prescribed uniform standards of the Chicago Police department.
  • Ensure the PPO in training is within the proper uniform standards of the Chicago Police department.
  • Check to confirm the PPO has their Police ID, loaded weapon and sobriety.
  • Establish the proper relationship between the FTO and PPO in terms of expectations.
  • Review the grading and observation matrix for the pass/fail algorithm.
  • Submit recommendations at the end of every tour for consistency.
  • Generate a remedial session if a PPO was not up to standard by the third cycle of training.
  • After training, stay in touch with the PPO to ensure consistency with minimal issues.

Alternate Response Officer

Chicago Police Department
09.2021 - 02.2024

Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Attend work on time.
  • Maintain a clean work station.
  • Answer calls from citizens in a professional manner in order to complete reports or provide information respectively.
  • Keep a healthy level of cordiality with fellow Officers at work.
  • Always submit our reports for approval prior to the end of our shift.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Criminal Justice

Saint Xavier University
Chicago, IL
05.2001 -

High School Diploma -

Chicago Vocational High School
Chicago, IL
06-1990

Skills

  • Supervisory duties
  • Tactical policing
  • Crisis intervention support
  • Desk patrol
  • Incident management
  • Crisis intervention
  • Field Training Officer (FTO): Train recruits and PPOs
  • Crisis behavior training
  • Police supervision

Accomplishments

Sergeant has accomplished the goals of personal improvement and the improvement of others. Other officers have been supervised. Numerous awards and Honorable mentions were achieved over the course of employment.

Affiliations

Affiliations are as follows: Peer Support, Crisis Intervention, NOBLE and FOP Representative.

Certification

Peer Support

Timeline

Police Sergeant

Chicago Police Department
10.2024 - Current

Instructor

Chicago Police Department
07.2024 - 10.2024

Alternate Response Officer

Chicago Police Department
09.2021 - 02.2024

Team Leader

Chicago Police Department
02.2021 - Current

Field Training Officer

Chicago Police Department
06.2017 - 07.2024

Police Officer

Chicago Police Department
09.2003 - Current

Bachelor of Science - Criminal Justice

Saint Xavier University
05.2001 -

High School Diploma -

Chicago Vocational High School

Numerous Honorable Mentions, Award of Valor

Over the years as a law Enforcement professional there were numerous awards obtained. Honorable Mentions ranged from Peer Support recognition to Gun and narcotics arrests. The Award of Valor was in relation to being shot in the Line of Duty.  

Michael St.clair IILaw Enforcement