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Office of the Mayor
NEWS RELEASE
December 21, 2007
1:30 p.m.
Luecke names Uniform Chief Boykins as Police Chief
Contact: Mikki Dobski, Director of Communications&Special Projects, 235-5855 or 876-1564
After input from community leaders, police and members of his administration, Mayor
Stephen J. Luecke today announced that he will appoint Darryl Boykin, uniform division
chief since 2005, as the next Chief of Police for the South Bend Police Department.
Luecke selected Boykins, a member of the force since 1984, because of a combination of
factors, including Boykins':
• Leadership for the past three years of the department's uniform division, the largest
division with more than 150 officers, often considered the No. 2 role within the
department. The uniform division is responsible for several specialty patrols,
including K-9, SWAT and NEST (Neighborhood Enforcement Service Team).
• Experience in the police department beginning as a patrolman and rising through the
ranks. First as a corporal and sergeant of the K-9 unit, then serving as a sergeant and
lieutenant of the 1"detail until in 2000 being named as captain of the 3`d detail, K-9
unit and northwest region. Before becoming uniform division chief, Boykins served
as captain of the 3`a detail and of the K-9 unit.
• Personal background, including such community honors as Officer of the Year
awards (in 1991 from the Exchange Club of South Bend and 2004 from Grace Baptist
Church of Granger), Executive Journal's Best Cop Award in 2004, the YMCA's
Urban Youth Service Award in 2004, along with Red Ribbon and You Make the
Difference awards in 2007.
• Community outreach, including serving as aboard member of the Near Northwest
Neighborhood Inc. and the Community Tennis Association.
• Educational efforts among young people as demonstrated through his longstanding
leadership of the South Bend Boxing and Education program for teens as well as
teaching inner-city children and adults how to play tennis.
"His concern about young people in our community shows great commitment to South
Bend and to the youth of our community, and really to the big picture of what community