"Serving with Pride"

Palos Park Police academic partnership program goes international.

Palos Park Police Commissioner Dan Polk is pleased to announce that the Palos Park Police Department academic partnership program has gone international.

This summer the Palos Park Police Department welcomes Bweh Epah of Governors State University who is from Cameroon. Bweh is senior from Governor’s State and is serving as an intern with the Palos Park Police Department throughout the summer semester. His father Anthony Epah, is a Profession of History at DePaul University.

The Palos Park Police Department academic partnerships offer seniors the opportunity to spend a semester working in a real public safety agency. College interns spend a semester working with the Palos Park Police Department in three distinct sections of the organization, Patrol, Administration and Investigations. Interns earn college credit while gaining the experience associated with working in a real public service agency and seeing how day to day operations work.

Chief Joe Miller said, “Interns learn everything from how to order uniforms, pay the gasoline bills for patrol cars, keeping officers trained and current, as well as how the police function in a free society.”
The academic partnerships were started several years ago as way to team up with academia and stay current with the ever changing trends in policing.

Chief Joe Miller serves as a professor in Lewis University’s Public Safety and Policy programs and at Moraine Valley Community College.