‘For the safety of our employees’: Regional COVID vaccine clinic for first responders will happen despite some saying they won’t get it
Updated Jan 08, 2021;
Two town officials in Auburn appear to be at odds in their attitudes toward the coronavirus vaccine.
After the Auburn police chief stated last week he and roughly half the other officers in his department won’t get the vaccine, citing its speedy development and unknown long-term impact, the community’s town manager asserted his opinion is not representative of her administration as a whole.
In an interview with MassLive, Auburn’s 56-year-old police chief, Andrew J. Sluckis Jr., claimed, given his age and lack of any underlying health conditions, he would have more than a 99% chance of surviving COVID-19 were he to catch the viral respiratory infection.
Gov. Charles Baker signed
“An Act Relative to Justice, Equity and Accountability in Law Enforcement in the Commonwealth,” a controversial piece of legislation that creates a mandatory certification process for police officers, increases accountability and transparency in law enforcement and gives police departments a greater ability to hire or promote only qualified applicants.
“This bill is the product of bipartisan cooperation and thanks to the Black and Latino Caucus’ leadership on the hugely important issue of law enforcement accountability, Massachusetts will have one of the best laws in the nation,” said Baker. “Police officers have enormously difficult jobs and we are grateful they put their lives on the line every time they go to work. Thanks to final negotiations on this bill, police officers will have a system they can trust and our communities will be safer for it.”
Retired Longmeadow police chief appointed interim head of Hampden force
Updated Jan 08, 2021;
HAMPDEN Retired Longmeadow Police Chief Richard A. Marchese has been named interim police chief in Hampden.
Marchese, a director of the Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Association, was appointed by the Select Board at the Thursday, Jan. 7 meeting via Zoom. He will serve until Thursday, April 1, or until a permanent police chief is selected and sworn in.
Marchese assumes the helm from longtime Hampden Police Chief Jeff Farnsworth, who recently resigned to take on a new role at the state Executive Office of Public Safety. Farnsworth has been with the department for more than three decades. He will stay on to help Marchese transition into the interim role until his last day, Saturday, Jan. 16.
Baker Signs Police Reform Legislation; Police Chiefs, Leaders Take Wait-and-See Approach
After months and months of controversy at the State House, Gov. Charlie Baker on Dec. 31 signed “An Act Relative to Justice, Equity and Accountability in Law Enforcement in the Commonwealth,” a controversial piece of legislation that creates a mandatory certification process for police officers, increases accountability and transparency in law enforcement and gives police departments a greater ability to hire or promote only qualified applicants.
Both of Charlestown’s state delegation members voted in favor of the final bill that Gov. Baker signed.
The bill reached an apex of consternation last year for lawmakers as many found themselves between strong voices for police reform in the wake of the murder of George Floyd in Minnesota, and also strong voices for the support of the vast amount of police officers that do the right thing day in and day out. It was a balancing act that took de
After months and months of controversy at the State House, Gov. Charlie Baker on Dec. 31 signed “An Act Relative to Justice, Equity and Accountability in Law Enforcement in the Commonwealth,” a controversial piece of legislation that creates a mandatory certification process for police officers, increases accountability and transparency in law enforcement and gives police departments a greater ability to hire or promote only qualified applicants.
Both of Chelsea’s state delegation members voted in favor of the final bill that Gov. Baker signed.
The bill reached an apex of consternation last year for lawmakers as many found themselves between strong voices for police reform in the wake of the murder of George Floyd in Minnesota, and also strong voices for the support of the vast amount of police officers that do the right thing day in and day out. It was a balancing act that took debate to a heated level from every angle before the bill entered into a conference committee in