Jenkintown Police Chief Albert DiValentino Reflects On More Than 30-Year Career After Retiring

JENKINTOWN, Pa. — A longtime Montgomery County police chief stepped down Friday after a decades-long career. Jenkintown Police’s Albert DiValentino is retiring after being with the borough for more than 30 years.

The chief’s last day on payroll is Friday, but he took off for New Year’s Eve, so he turned in his badge and his uniform Thursday.DiValentino called it a bittersweet moment, telling CBS3’s Matt Petrillo, “It goes by so fast.”“So I’m just gonna relax a while, unwind and I don’t think it sunk in yet, Matt, to tell you the truth,” he said.READ MORE:“It was a different type of policing back in the ’70s and ’80s and ’90s.

DiValentino was a sergeant before being promoted to chief in 2002. While a lot of people would want to leave a leadership role with pomp and circumstance, that’s not the case with Jenkintown’s longtime top cop. “I just wanted to leave quietly, let the new guy come in, just a very smooth transition,” he said, adding, ” It was kinda weird leaving and no way to get back in when I don’t have a key fob!”“We don’t have that bureaucracy like the large departments have, where you have to go through this red tape to get to one person. People want to talk to the chief, they get in and talk to the chief,” he said.

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