Brennpunkt

All, We have been informed of the passing of past Emerald Society President James McCarthy on March 9th, 2025. Jim was a retired 27 year veteran of the Waukegan Police Department, and in his role as Emerald Society President encouraged cooperation between our two...

Fellow members, Since our last Brennpunkt, we have held our Oktoberfest Dinner to which I would like to send a huge thank you to all who assisted in planning as well as attended this event. For those of you who were unable to attend you missed a great event, and we...

Eternal rest grant to her O Lord Obituary: https://www.watkowski-mulyck.com/obituaries/ursula-kokott

Please join me in offering condolences to the Handler Family and Friends, who held a Celebration of Life for Rich Handler on October 12th. Rich passed earlier in June, and was the middle son of of longtime member Roy Handler (CPD) who passed in 2015. The Handler...

Time flies when you’re having fun, and the past several months offered fun to those who attended our Association events so far this year. In May we participated in the Chicago FOP Ethnic Meeting, bringing out several tasty food items for our Law Enforcement Ethnic...

Greetings, In a recap of the 2023 year, it was a year of sor- rows and joy for the Ger- man American Police As- sociation. Several of our families personally experi- enced loss of loved ones, or endured medical or finan- cial difficulties. Our Associ- ation was no...

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of longtime member and our President of the German American Police Association, Tim Schaefer. Please keep Tim’s family and friends in your thoughts and prayers during this time.

Guten Tag! Wow, what year so far. To think we are in April already. 2023 is starting to fly by but we are trying to stay ahead of things: your officers and board members are all working hard to plan upcoming events. The first item that GAPA will be participating in is...

President’s Message Guten Tag and Frohes Neues Jahr (Happy New Year) Starting out I would like to give you an update on our Trip to Milwaukee for the Cubs vs Brewers game. I’m sure by now you have heard that our trip was unsuccessful. The Cubs blew it and we had to...

Clarence “Ed” Heerdt, age 90, Ret. C.P.D., SFC Army Ret. Beloved husband of the late Nancy J. Heerdt, nee Tross; loving father of Donna L. (Peter)