Today marks the end of one chapter, and the beginning of another. Detective Cpl. Connie Elks will officially retire from the Greenville Police Department today, after serving our community for 30 years.
Many people in our City know Connie Elks as a public servant, a wife, a mother, a church member, a co-worker, and a friend. We at the Greenville Police Department consider her to be a wonderful human being.
She has always come to work with a smile on her face and a positive attitude in her heart. Connie has served this department as a dispatcher, police patrol officer, juvenile services detective, DARE officer, and for the past 10 years, as a homicide detective.
No matter the challenge, Connie Elks seems always to have taken a "Can Do" approach to the varied assignments and cases that she faced. She has demonstrated an inexhaustible spirit in the performance of her duties, sometimes under the most heart-wrenching and stressful conditions.
Few people outside law enforcement and her family will ever truly know the toll it takes on the spirit, or the circumstances she and other detectives have faced, while investigating and solving some very heinous crimes, bringing closer to the families of victims.
Yet through it all, Connie has persevered.
We thought this would be a fitting tribute to one of the best people who ever walked through the doors of the Greenville Police Department. It is a verse from the Book of Romans:
"And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose."
Congratulations Connie, on your retirement. And, Thank you for your service to this City.
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| Greenville Police Department Major Crimes Unit: 2012 Detective Corporal Connie Elks, front & center |
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