WPCNR POLICE GAZETTE. March 14, 2005: The White Plains Department of Public Safety promoted nine officers and welcomed a Counselor & Intelligence Specialist to the Department in a ceremony at the Public Safety Building.

A Good News Police Story: Promotions for Service well done were announced for 9 officers and a new legal officer for the Department of Public Safety was officially brought on board. Photo by WPCNR News.

Officer Traffic: The Irreplaceable Living Trademark of The White Plains Police Department, Bill Biolsi. Photo by WPCNR News.

They also said good bye to “Officer Traffic” in White Plains, the man who has choreographed traffic at Main and Bank for twenty years,  the man whom Commissioner Frank Straub characterized today as the model for what a White Plains Police Officer should aspire to be: Bill Biolsi.  Detective Biolsi was promoted to Detective today as he retired.

Michael Knox was promoted to Lieutenant, and praised by Commissioner Straub for creating a training program for new police officers for which Lieutenant Knox devised the Neighborhood Conditions Unit that is now being extended to officers other than trainees. Photo by WPCNR News.

James Parlow, Cynthia Hood, and Howard Tribble come forth to be sworn in. Photo by WPCNR News.

Promoted to Sergeant were Cynthia Hood, for her work in the Domestic Violence Unit,  James Parlow, and Howard Tribble. Sergeant Tribble’s promotion will move him out of the School Liaison Officer position serving the High School and Middle School, but Sergeant Tribble assured WPCNR that a worthy successor will be chosen.

Ed Rutledge was promoted to Detective Second Grade for his work in taking and handling some of the biggest cases in the Detective Division. Commissioner Straub administers the oath, as Mayor Joseph Delfino and Police Chief James Bradley  observe. Photo by WPCNR News.

August Fazzino, Micharel Munroe, James Spencer and “Officer Traffic,” Bill Biolsi were promoted to Detective. Photo by WPCNR News.

The final swearing in was a welcome and official hiring of Martin Gleeson, as the Department of Public Safety Counsel and Advisor on Public Safety Issues. Photo by WPCNR News.

Mr. Gleeson retired last week after twenty years with the New York Police Department. He replaces Eve Monroe who left the position about one year ago.

Commissioner Straub told WPCNR that Mr. Gleeson recently served as a Sergeant in the Legal Bureau of the NYPD. He was in the Legal Bureau for 17 years according to Commissioner Straub handling “profile matters,” and most recently was in charge of advising the NYPD on their approaches to security matters related to the Republican Convention, including treatment of demonstrators, arrests, and security issues.

Straub said Mr. Gleeson’s first assignment will be to review Department of Public Safety training from a legal standpoint as to how officers are taught to conduct themselves with the public. Straub said he would also advise the department on safe housing issues, and evaluate options available to the department in their handling of restaurant, bistro, and bar issues.

Mayor Joseph Delfino at the beginning of the ceremony said what he had to say about the Department of Public Safety could not be said about any other police department in the country. He said the people of White Plains go to sleep at night that there are men and women, "someone out there watching and caring," and that by the job they do they make White Plains a better place to live. Photo by WPCNR News.