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The $46.4 million hangar will be designed for the Regionalized Isochronal Inspection program, which requires every piece of every C-5 jet in the Air Force fleet to be inspected every 14 months. Since 2006, Westover has been one of just two bases that conduct the inspections.
Chicopee Police Department to hire 13 new officers to address significant staff shortage
Posted May 11, 2021
CHICOPEE – Faced with multiple retirements and vacancies on the Police Department, the city is working to hire 13 new police officers.
The department is significantly short personnel. There are currently 90 patrol officers on staff and city regulations allow up to 120 on the force, Police Lt. Holly Davis said.
“The shortage is not causing any safety issues,” she said. “We are filling all of our beats and units.”
The fact that the police department is allowed 120 officers makes the shortage looks worse than it is, since the force is rarely expected to be that large. The complement of patrol officers was increased several years ago to allow candidates to be hired in anticipation of senior officers retiring so the two can overlap while the new officers are in training.
Excessive force lawsuit alleges Chicopee police fractured man’s skull
Updated Feb 03, 2021;
A man is accusing four Chicopee police officers of twice knocking him to the pavement with so much force that it fractured his skull into multiple pieces.
A lawsuit filed in November in U.S. District Court in Springfield by Rey L. Augustine Jr. accuses Officers Timothy Brodeur, Mickey Dumais, Frank McQuaid and Joseph Brunelle of using unnecessary force and conspiring to cover up the incident. The suit also names the city, Police Chief William R. Jebb and 10 other unnamed officers as defendants.
It accuses the city of violating Augustine’s civil rights of protection from cruel and unusual punishment and unreasonable searches.