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June 23, 2022                                                  ASSOCIATED NEWSPAPERS OF MICHIGAN                                                  PAGE 7


                                                                     WESTLAND
                                                                     WESTLAND





        Promoted



        Westland police mark promotions,


        welcome new officers to department


           The    Westland    Police   through the Michigan State
        Department recently celebrated  Police as a drug recognition
        several promotions and new     expert. He is a member of the
        hires during a promotion cere-  Westland Police Honor Guard, a
        mony. Seven veteran officers   department instructor in
        were promoted to the ranks of  Radar/Lidar and SFST and the
        lieutenant and sergeant and two  new sergeant recently joined the
        former Police Service Aides    Committee    on    Disability
        were sworn in as police officers.  Concerns as the police represen-
        Michael Little and Kameron     tative.
        Sleep were promoted to the rank
        of lieutenant, Jason Soulliere,  Pettit grew up Westland and
        Kevin Yudt, Brandon Pettit,    started as a Westland Police
        Rodney Donald were promoted    Explorer at age 13. He graduated
        to the rank of sergeant and    from John Glenn High School
        Mohammed Alzayadi and          before completing the Detroit  cer with the Altamonte Springs  toward an associate's degree in  Jedrusik said he was proud of
        Jackson Allison were sworn in as  Police Academy in 2007. He  Police Department in Florida.  criminal justice and graduated  the officers and the department.
        new officers.                  served the City of Detroit as a  After he and family made the  from the Wayne County Regional  “Throughout the country law
                                       police officer for 5 years prior to  move to Michigan, he joined the  Police Academy in May of 2022.  enforcement agencies are strug-
           Little, now a lieutenant, earned  coming to Westland. In Westland,  Westland Police Department  He is currently in the field train-  gling with police recruitment. I
        an associate's degree in criminal  the newly named sergeant has  where he spent time working as  ing program.              am proud to say that we are still
        justice from Kirtland College  been an evidence technician,   a patrol officer, community                                  able to attract quality candidates.
        where he also graduated from   community police officer, a mem-  police officer and most recently  New officer Allison was born  You can clearly see that after
        the police academy. He started  ber of the crime suppression  as the school resource officer for  and raised in Redford and went  hearing the bios on our two new
        his career with the Hamtramck  unit, a member of the Westland  the Wayne-Westland Community  to Redford Union High School  hires and our promoted lieu-
        Police Department in 2006      tactical response unit, and police  School District. Donald is a field  where he was a part of the  tenants and sergeants. Another
        before being hired by the      sniper. Most recently he was   training officer, recruitment  National Honor Society and was  common factor is how so many of
        Westland Police Department in  assigned to the Westland police  team member, and active shooter  a varsity member of the swim  our police hires grew up locally.
        2009.  Miller has been a K9    detective bureau.              instructor for the department. He  team, baseball and soccer all four  That says a lot for our communi-
        Handler, member of the recruit-                               spends his free time coaching  years of high school. He went on  ty,” Jedrusik said.
        ment team, a member of the       Newly promoted sergeant      football at John Glenn High   to graduate from Wayne State     “Over the years, we have seen
        Wayne County Mobile Field      Donald is a second generation  School and his son's youth base-  University with a bachelor's  a large number of new police
        Force Team, member of the      officer whose father served with  ball team.                 degree in criminal justice and a  officers come to Westland
        Critical Stress Management     the   Garden    City  Police                                 minor in global studies. He    because they grew up here. We
        Team and a member of the       Department. He attended           New officer Alzayadi was born  began working for Westland as a  have seen that in our police
        Westland Tactical Response Unit  Brevard College in North     in a refugee camp in Saudi    police service aide in May of  department, our fire department,
        and was most recently been     Carolina and played running    Arabia to two Iraqi parents,  2019 and was promoted to trainer  city council and even the mayor
        assigned to the Westland Police  back for the football team and  moved to the United States six  position in December of 2020. He  who grew up in Westland and
        Special Investigation Unit (SIU),  then attended Valencia College  months after being born, grew up  graduated from the Wayne  went to John Glenn. This demon-
        where he will continue to serve  Criminal Justice Academy in  in Dearborn and is a Fordson  County Regional Police Academy  strates the importance of pro-
        as the bureau commander.       Orlando, FL. He is currently fin-  High School graduate. He is the  in May of 2022 and is currently in  grams, such as the Explorers and
                                       ishing his education at Columbia  third youngest of 10 siblings. He  the field training program. When  the PSA (Police Service Aide)
           New Lt. Sleep earned his asso-  Southern University Online.  was a police service aide for two  not working, he volunteers as a  program. These programs are
        ciate's degree in criminal justice  Donald started his career as a  years, and then was promoted to  youth soccer coach for the club  helping to develop future
        from Schoolcraft College. He was  cadet with the Ocoee Police  a trainer position in the program.  where he formerly played.    Westland police officers,” the
        hired as a police officer by   Department and then as an offi-  Alzayadi is currently working  Westland Police Chief Jeff  chief concluded.
        Westland in May 2007. During his
        time as an officer he was a part of
        the Westland Tactical Response
        Unit, a member of the sniper
        team and was the assistant team
        leader. He was also a field train-
        ing officer and is a current mem-
        ber of the Westland Police Honor
        Guard, an instructor of active
        shooter response, ALICE,
        firearms, less lethal impact
        munitions, divisionary devices,
        OC/CS pepper spray and deploy-
        able devices, and counter
        ambush tactics. Sleep was pro-
        moted to the rank of sergeant in
        February 2019, and was assigned
        to the detective bureau.

           Soulliere, promoted to the rank
        of sergeant, was hired by the
        Westland Police Department in
        November 2012. He was a mem-
        ber of the Westland Tactical
        Response Unit from 2015-2020
        and was a sniper for the team.
        He was a field training officer,
        and is a Police Honor Guard
        Team member, and a member of
        the Westland Police critical inci-
        dent stress management team. In
        2016 he was named Westland
        Police Officer of the Year.

           Yudt is a Westland native who
        earned his bachelor's degree in
        criminal justice from Madonna
        University and graduated from
        the Wayne County Regional
        Police Academy. Prior to being
        hired in Westland in 2004, he
        worked one year for the Wayne
        County Sheriff's Department.
        Yudt has worked in the traffic
        bureau, the motor carrier divi-
        sion, is a trained accident recon-
        structionist, and was trained




























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