Daily Herald: Retired Round Lake, Rockford officers receive excellence award

ROUND LAKE, Ill. (WLS) -- After about 35 years as a certified chaplain to suburban police departments, the Rev. Lisle Kauffman now has his name on an annual excellence award. The retired pastor of Calvary Presbyterian Church in Round Lake, Ill., was selected with the Rev. William Wentink of Rockford as the namesakes for the annual statewide award for excellence in law enforcement chaplaincy.

They were honored with the first Wentink-Kauffman award in 2014, and will see someone else receive it at the International Conference of Police Chaplains gathering in March. It's an honor after years of being on call to comfort families in pain and the cops who respond.

"Police officers care," said Kauffman, 75. "But you never get the headline that says, 'Police lieutenant so and so cared about the people he was involved with.'"

Kauffman has served Round Lake and other suburban departments. He also was called to assist after the 2001 terrorist attacks in New York. You can read the full story in the Daily Herald's edition from Sunday, Jan. 25, or online at dailyherald.com.