[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 93 (Friday, May 31, 2024)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E576]
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  RECOGNIZING SOLEBURY TOWNSHIP POLICE CHIEF DOMINICK P. BELLIZZIE'S 
                               RETIREMENT

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                       HON. BRIAN K. FITZPATRICK

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                          Friday, May 31, 2024

  Mr. FITZPATRICK. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize an 
outstanding constituent of my district, Solebury Police Chief Dominick 
P. Bellizzie who is retiring on July 1, 2024 after 48 years of 
dedicated and faithful service to the citizens of Southeastern 
Pennsylvania.
  After high school, Dominick joined the United States Navy where he 
served prior to his law enforcement career. He found his lifelong 
career on May 17, 1975 when he started as a police officer at the City 
of Philadelphia Police Department, working in patrol, investigations, 
administration, and narcotics.
  Dominick has had extensive police training, including the Federal 
Bureau of Investigation National Academy in Quantico, Virginia. Chief 
Bellizzie was also selected by the International Association of Chiefs 
of Police to travel abroad to Ukraine to provide training in police 
methods.
  In 2002, Chief Bellizzie became the Chief of Police for the City of 
Coatesville Police Department in Chester County, Pennsylvania. He left 
Coatesville Police Department in 2006 to lead the Solebury Township 
Police Department. Under the leadership of Chief Dominick Bellizzie, 
the Solebury Township Police Department was transformed from a pre-21st 
century department to an innovative community-based police department. 
The principles of leadership, service, honesty, integrity, humility, 
purpose, and trust were part of Dominick's devotion to law enforcement 
and his officers.
  I wish to congratulate Dominick on his almost five decades of service 
to the citizens of Bucks, Chester, and Philadelphia Counties, and on 
his well-deserved retirement from the Solebury Township Police 
Department.

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