Police Chief Adrian Baker introduced veteran police officer, Cliff Wilson, as Chestertown’s newest patrolman. Wilson last served in the Rock Hall Police Department for seven years. Prior to serving in Rock Hall, Wilson served five years with the Anne Arundel County Sherriff’s Office and 25 years with the DC Metro Police.
In 1992 Wilson won the Metro Police Silver Medal of Valor and was named Georgetown’s Officer of the Year by Georgetown Kiwanis Club.
Meet Cliff Wilson. The video is a bout one minute.
Ron Jordan says
Editor,
I have lived in Kent County for close to 13 years. I have enjoyed my residence here and I feel very safe concerning law enforcement in the County and within the city of Chestertown. The majority of the citizens here are fairly progressive minded concerning social issues and ills. There are number of organizations that lend a hand to our neediest citizens, for those facts, I am proud to be a citizen of Kent County and the State of Maryland. As a transplant from California, my move here was to improve my company’s prospects in doing business with my target market up and down the eastern seaboard, this plan has worked out well. As with all businesses, there has been ups and downs, but that is the nature of owning a business.
With great fanfare, the video pertains to the importance of the adding another officer to the Chestertown police department, a good hire indeed. What bothers me and may be even others, is the lack of sensitivity to the population of Chestertown that is not the majority. Chestertown has a strong demographic in people of color, but it seems to me at least, that the City Council or the Mayor and our new Police Chief Adrian Baker has not considered that having a “African-American, Hispanic or even a Asian-American” law officer as a good addition to a fine police force. The demographics of the nation are changing, Chestertown has seen that a dialog between people of color and the majority population is a good first step, with the “Diversity Dialog Group.” We have a well known and well respected chapter of PFLAG and now after many years of absence, a black city councilman who is home grown. So, many changes are afoot but all for naught if all the agencies that are part of the County and cities are not on board in making sure that our law enforcement is a mirror reflection or at least bring a show of parity and fairness to our law enforcement officers.