MSP’s 2024 Marquette Co. Officer of the Year ‘humbled’ by award

Kennedy Kammers
·2 min read

NEGAUNEE, Mich. (WJMN) — Police Officers have a mission to keep the community safe. A Michigan State Trooper at the Negaunee Post goes above and beyond that. He not only keeps the community protected, but also wants to educate as well.

“So, we are privileged to work with State Trooper Aaron Griffin, who was selected as the 2024 Officer of the Year for Marquette County,” said Lt. Mark Giannunzio, a Public Information Officer for MSP. “Trooper Griffin has been with us for a couple of years now. He is an outstanding member of the Michigan State Police. All other members and I here at the post congratulate him, we are honored to work with him. We are learning things from him every day, even with 25 years in he blows me away with the amount of knowledge that he has about law enforcement compared to what I have. I am always looking to him for guidance for instruction for our younger troopers and even some of us older members of the department. He is an outstanding trooper and well deserving of this award.”

Aaron Griffin have been a police officer for 13 years and just celebrated his two-year anniversary with the Michigan State Police.

“Being a part of the Michigan State Police has been a blessing,” said Aaron Griffin, Michigan State Police Trooper. “It is definitely the best law enforcement position I have held in my career. The unity, teamwork, bonding that we have at the post is incompletable than the other positions I have held. I am not an award-seeking trooper, but it is a very humbling experience to say the least.

For Griffin, it has been a long journey to get where he is today. Each moment of the experience has been challenging but also exciting for him.

“It was a long journey. I went through a regional police academy, the MSP Lateral Recruit School, amongst many other trainings throughout my career to get to this point All of which have been quite demanding, exciting, challenging, taxing, but in the end very rewarding,” said Griffin. “Traditionally not an award seeking trooper, but it is a very humbling experience to say the least so. I am very grateful for the opportunity to have been selected. Very thankful for those that felt that I did deserve this award, and I am at a loss for words for that.”

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