City Police Promote Hughes And Whitaker

City Police Promote Hughes And Whitaker

Ann Arbor Police Chief Rolland J. Gainsley today announced the appointment of a patrolman and a sergeant to two top command positions in his department.

Sgt. Cebert (Cy) W. Hughes, 39, of 2991 Brassow Rd., Lodi township, has been promoted to uniform lieutenant. Patrolman Robert E. Whitaker, 32, of Whitmore Lake, has been moved up to sergeant. Both appointments are effective immediately.

Lt. Hughes, who has served with the Ann Arbor Police Department for 13 years, is a native of Wayne and was graduated from Ypsilanti High School. He served in a detachment of U. S. Rangers assigned to the 36th Infantry Division during World War II. His unit was taken prisoner by the Germans during fighting at Salerno, Italy, in 1943 and the next two years he spent in prisoner-of-war camps in Germany.

He was released by English troops on May 7, 1945. and after discharge joined the Police Department here as a patrolman on June 20, 1947.

Lt. Hughes was promoted to uniform sergeant Sept. 24, 1955. As an officer he has attended traffic and community relations schools held at Michigan State University and also was enrolled in an arson seminar at MSU. He is married and the father of three children.

Sgt. Whitaker was born in Chicago, Ill., Mich., where he East Lake, Mich., where he attended elementary schools. He was graduated from high school in Manistee, Mich., and served for four years with Detachment 1516, U. S. Naval “Seabees.”

He was discharged in 1953, attended the University for a short time and later worked in welding shops in the Detroit area. Sgt. Whitaker was appointed patrolman with the Police Department on June 1, 1954. Recently he and other experienced officers have been in charge of work shifts when the sergeant and lieutenant normally in command were both absent.

This spring he was graduated from a four-week Basic Police Training Course held at Michigan State University. He is married and the father of three children.