Romanik v. Board of Fire & Police Commissioners

We allowed leave to appeal in this case to review a judgment of the Fifth District Appellate Court (19 Ill. App. 3d 431), which held that a probationary police patrolman could not be discharged without a formal hearing after notice of the grounds for the discharge. We reverse that judgment.

The probationary patrolman, Robert Romanik, was discharged by the East St. Louis Board of Fire and Police Commissioners during his probationary period. The Board acted on the written recommendation of the chief of the department which was accompanied by a record of the occurrences upon which it was based.

Rom…