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TAUNTON An officer with the Taunton Police Department, who also was an integral part of the Southeastern Massachusetts Law Enforcement Council (SEMLEC), passed away on Christmas Eve at the age of 49 after battling COVID-19.
According to a press release from SEMLEC, Officer John Borges was one of the founding members of the SEMLEC Search and Rescue Unit in 2003.
Somerset Police Chief George McNeil, the control chief and head of the SEMLEC SAR, called Borges the glue that held the team together and one of the region s preeminent experts on search techniques. Officer Borges worked the midnight to 8 a.m. shift, and when there was an active search for a missing person, he would regularly stay past his shift and continue to work, on his own time. He didn t even put in for overtime, Chief McNeil said. I have been a police officer for 34 years, and I learned new things every time I worked with Officer Borges. He was excellent at his job – the job of finding lost people.