Hopkins appointed to police officers’ pension fund

Dan Hopkins has been appointed by the governor to serve on the Police Officers’ Pension Investment Fund.

Hopkins is a retired police officer who previously served the O’Fallon Police Department, Shiloh Police Department and the St. Clair County Sheriff’s Department.

In 1987, he started work as a police officer in Collinsville and was elected to the pension board in 1988. He retired from Collinsville Police Department in 2006. Hopkins then continued on the pension board as the retired officer for the Collinsville Police Pension Fund and was elected president in 1998.

He was elected a Collinsville Township trustee in 2017.