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Chief reports September operations; commission accepts longtime clerk's resignation and honors two officers
Summary
The chief reported September activity totals and a reporting issue with e‑tickets; the commission accepted the resignation of records clerk Jeffrey Bunnell, awarded level‑3 commendations to Sergeant DeSalle and Officer Bernowski for a de‑escalation on Sept. 8, and heard an announcement about a Lake County corrections officer's funeral.
The Metropolitan Police Commission received its monthly operations report and handled personnel business during the meeting.
The chief reported that for September officers responded to 2,537 calls for service and that total officer responses were 4,355. The chief listed crash and enforcement figures (the transcript reads 91 state accident reports, 18 with injury, approximately 489 traffic stops, 238 warnings and 468 citations as read into the record) and said the department is investigating a reporting issue with e‑tickets that can undercount multiple citations under a single UTT number. The chief also said the false‑alarm ordinance has been updated and codified and that enforcement (including ticketing for false alarms) will resume.
Under new business the commission read and accepted a resignation letter from Jeffrey Bunnell, who the transcript records as a clerk in the police department's records unit with a resignation effective 2025‑11‑01. The chair read Bunnell's resignation into the record: "I am resigning from the police department effective 11/01/2025 as a clerk in the police department records." The chair added that Bunnell had been with the department since the late 1970s and said, "it's time to enjoy his retirement." A motion to accept the resignation was made and carried by voice vote.
The commission also read a department letter recommending level‑3 commendations for Sergeant DeSalle and Officer Bernowski for their response to a suicidal subject on 2025‑09‑08. The letter, read into the record, said the officers' negotiation and de‑escalation "resulted in her throwing a knife onto the floor of the bedroom and voluntarily going with paramedics" and recommended level‑3 commendations; the motion to award the commendations passed by voice vote.
Attorney Murphy announced that a correctional officer at the Lake County Sheriff's Office (identified in the record as Officer Jones) died in a car crash. Murphy read funeral details: the service is Saturday at 10:30 a.m. at Memory Lane Memorial Park on Lincoln Highway in Crown Point.
No members of the public spoke during the public‑comment period. The commission set the next regular meeting for Dec. 5 at 11:00 a.m. and then adjourned.
