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www.ci.mounds-view.mn.us 6 Personnel News 2009 has seen the police department lose three long time veteran officers to retirement. On April 23rd, Officer Terry Broos retired after serving 27 years for the city of Mounds View. On May 22nd, Officer Steve Geringer, also retired after 20 years with the city, as well as additional years of service with the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Department. We also saw the retirement of Chief Mike Sommer on October 30th after nearly 7 years with Mounds View and many years of previous service with the Blaine Police Department and Anoka County Sheriff’s Department. Chief Sommer had a total of 29 years of law enforcement service. Together these three officers had over 80 years of experience that will be greatly missed! The department hired our first female officer, Kirsten Lafean, in June, bringing a much needed female perspective to the department. Officer Lafean is a welcomed addition to the patrol unit! An on-going hiring process will continue until the existing vacancies are filled. A vacancy has also been created with the resignation of the Public Service Officer (PSO). PSO Tyler Martin submitted his resignation to take a full time police officer position with another municipality. Best wishes are extended to all our police employees who have provided years of dedicated service. DNR Gun Safety Classes Mounds View Police Officers taught the DNR gun safety course to a class of local youth in the fall. Students participating must be a minimum of 11 years of age. A total of 19 students attended this most recent course. The Minnesota DNR firearm safety class consists of 17 hours of classroom and field experience in the safe handling of firearms and hunter responsibility. The field experience allows students to demonstrate accepted principles of safety in hunting and the handling of firearms that they learned in the classroom. It includes live fire on a rifle range. Our students fired .22 rifles at a local indoor gun range. Upon successful completion of the course, students receive a hunter safety certificate. This certificate allows the student to purchase a hunting license in Minnesota and other states where certification is required. This educational opportunity in firearms provided by our officers allows positive interaction to occur between the officers and the young members of our community. It provides a setting for young students to be able to view our officers from a new perspective.