New Police Officer is Bronze Star Recipient

From left, City Manager Dave Boyer, Officer Nicholas Stirrett and Police Chief Chuck Nebus at Stirrett’s swearing-in ceremony. (Photo submitted by the city of Farmington Hills)

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Farmington Hills has a new police officer, Nicholas Stirrett.

Stirrett, a decorated U.S. Army veteran who served in Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom and was awarded the Bronze Star for his heroism in a combat zone, was sworn in Nov. 9 at the Farmington Hills Police Department.

Stirrett is also a four-year veteran of the Richmond, VA, Police Department and a former Farmington Hills police Cadet. While n Richmond, he was the 2012 Rookie of the Year. a five-time recipient of the Richmond Police Officer Salute to Excellence Award, and was recognized multiple times for high-profile arrests.

He is a graduate of St. Thomas Aquinas College in New York and has a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice administration from Columbia Southern University.

“Officer Stirrett is an excellent addition to the department and comes highly recommended by several of his former police and military command officers,” Farmington Hills Police Chief Chuck Nebus said in a statement. “We are very pleased to have Officer Stirrett back with the department, after he was recalled to serve in Iraq when he was a police cadet in 2007.”

Nebus said Stirrett’s military and previous police experience will be an asset to the department. He has been assigned to uniform patrol duties in the Patrol Division of the Department’s Operations Bureau.