John-Erik Anderson served with the Lincolnshire Police Department for over 25 years and held increasingly accountable positions that provided him the opportunity to experience the Department across all its broad functional responsibilities, both internally and externally. He started as a Patrol Officer; was certified as a DARE officer and became the Department's School Resource Officer at Stevenson High School. In 2002, John-Erik was appointed to Investigator, a position he held until he was promoted to Sergeant in 2014. As a sergeant, John-Erik supervised Investigations, School Resource Officers, and Patrol. John-Erik was a Deputy United States Marshal with the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Identity Theft Task Force and was selected as the Village of Lincolnshire Employee of the Year.
As a result of his work as an investigator with other law enforcement officials at the local, county, state, national and international levels; John-Erik was selected to the Lake County Major Crime Task Force, after having been nominated by the Lincolnshire Police Department. The Task Force, comprised of 40 officers from throughout Lake County, investigates homicides, kidnappings, child abductions, officer-involved shootings, in-custody deaths, and other heinous criminal activities. John-Erik was promoted to Assistant Commander, with responsibilities for organizing and supervising surveillance and apprehension operations, identifying training needs, personnel evaluations, and Task Force policy formulation and administration. As an investigator, John-Erik was responsible for the management of major cases handled by the
Department, which required the ability to work productively with internal and external law enforcement resources. He organized, coordinated, and directed inter-agency investigations working with local, state, federal, and international authorities. This collaboration resulted in the apprehension and successful prosecution of murder suspects, kidnappers, and persons accused of fraud, embezzlement and involvement in identify theft, and locally related postal cases. John-Erik led a kidnapping investigation whereby he located the 10 year old victim in Mexico. With the assistance of the FBI, he was able to get her reunited with her family. The offender was later convicted and sentenced to both state and federal prison. John-Erik helped to spearhead the investigation into the largest theft case in Lake County history (theft in excess of $7.5 million) and also led the investigation into the only drug induced homicide ever charged in Lincolnshire. Both cases resulted in felony convictions. John-Erik has completed more than 2,500 hours of professional training and development and also successfully completed the Northwestern Center for Public Safety School of Police Staff and Command. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Illinois Wesleyan University and a Master of Science degree from Illinois State University. John-Erik is a certified advanced evidence technician, school resource officer, juvenile officer, homicide investigator, and crisis intervention officer.
John-Erik served as the Department's Public Information Officer and has taught a wide variety of topics from search and seizure to homicide investigations. He is a recognized expert in the investigation of identity theft and other financial crimes and has trained both law enforcement and private sector personnel in the detection and prevention of financial crimes.
John-Erik currently serves as the Illinois High School Association's head soccer clinician. In this role he is responsible for the development and distribution of all educational materials used to train all high school soccer officials throughout Illinois. He is a former National Soccer Referee who still actively officiates at the high school level.