POST Commission
The Massachusetts Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) Commission is charged with creating a mandatory certification process for police officers, as well as processes for decertification, suspension of certification, or reprimand in the event of certain misconduct.
About us
The POST Commission was established as part of the criminal justice reform enacted in Chapter 253 of the Acts of 2020. By establishing the Commission, the Commonwealth is taking an important step to improve public safety and increase trust between members of law enforcement and the communities they serve.
About the Commissioners
Appointees of the Governor
The Honorable Judge Margaret R. Hinkle (Ret.) served from 1993 until 2011 as a Justice of the Superior Court of Massachusetts, and will serve as Chair of the POST Commission. Since her retirement in 2011, Judge Hinkle has worked as an alternative dispute resolution professional for JAMS, a private alternative dis
NBC affiliate News4 Nashville reported that the officer involved in the shooting was placed on administrative leave. Nashville police didn t initially identify the man who was shot.
Body camera video released by the Metro Nashville Police Department showed the man trying to get into a cruiser despite being warned not to by an officer, then running at the officer with what appear to be knifes in his hands. The officer, who d earlier yelled, Drop the knife, I don t want to shoot you, shot the man running at him three times.
Veiga was indicted in March, along with another man who was later arrested, in the October shooting of Manuel Duarte, 25, in Brockton, prosecutors said. Veiga was added to Massachusetts most wanted list on March 18.
Updated: 10:20 PM EDT Apr 6, 2021 A middle school gym teacher in Duxbury has been fired as he faces allegations of sexual assault from a former student s parents in civil court.Duxbury Public Schools Superintendent John Antonucci reported during Tuesday s school committee meeting that John Blake s employment with the district was terminated on April 1.In addition to being a gym teacher at Duxbury Middle School, Blake was the head coach of the Duxbury High School boys hockey team.Blake has not been criminally charged. Both Blake and the school district are facing a civil lawsuit from the parents of a man who died late last year of a drug overdose, as they claim the heinous acts of sexual abuse committed by Blake in school pushed their son to a life of drug abuse.Joseph and Melissa Foley say their son Joseph Parker Foley, who was known as Parker, was a Duxbury Middle School student in the mid-2000s and that he was sexually assaulted by Blake. Throughout a painful stretch
Duxbury gym teacher and hockey coach John Blake accused of raping student fired as police investigate more than a dozen anonymous tips related to the case
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A Duxbury gym teacher accused of raping a student has been fired as police investigate more than a dozen anonymous tips related to the case, according to news outlets.
A lawsuit was filed last week against the school district and Duxbury Middle School physical education teacher John Blake by the parents of Parker Foley, who attended Duxbury Public Schools until he left the district in 9th grade. Foley died of a drug overdose last year at age 27, according to The Associated Press.
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