Huron County MI Archives Obituaries.....Siska, Alfred December 3, 1951
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Alfred Siska, Ex-Chief Dies
Dec 4, 1951, Had 16 citations, No Demerits in 33 Years

Former superintendent of the Detroit Police Dept, Alfred A Siska, 68, died 
Monday at his home, 7660 Chalfonte. He had been suffering from a heart ailment. 
He became police superintendent Sep 1, 1944, in a general shakeup of the 
department heads and retired Nov 15, 1945. During his 33 yrs as a policeman, Mr. 
Siska received 16 citations, including one for arresting six armed freight car 
thieves and four accomplices in 1915. He never received a demerit. Appointed to 
the department in 1912, he became a detective in 1917, a detective sergeant in 
1918, a lieutenant in 1919, an inspector in 1926, a senior inspector in 1940 and 
a deputy superintendent in 1941. Known as "a tough cop and an honest one" his 
rise to top rank in the department coincided with the Ferguson grand jury's 
purge of less honest officials. For many years before that, Mr. Siska had been 
head of the gambling squad and during his long command of Grand River Station, 
it was his boast that not one of his men was ever cited for dishonesty.  His 
wife, Irma; son, Alfred A. Jr., and daughter, Mrs. Norman Booms, survive. Both 
his son and son-in-law are Detroit policemen. Requiem high mass for Mr. Siska 
will be sung at 10 a.m. Thurs in St Gregory ch, 15031 Dexter, with burial in 
Holy Sepulcher Cemetery. The body will be at the Edward J Sweeney funeral home, 
15015 Dexter, until 9:30 a.m. Thurs.


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