Live Breaking News & Updates on High Energy Patrol Initiative

NEW BEDFORD A little over two weeks after Mayor Jon Mitchell’s Commission on Police Use of Force issued its final report, Mitchell has announced the city and its police department will implement its recommendations in a manner consistent with state law and the department’s collective bargaining agreement. 
It’s not clear that any of the recommendations would necessarily be impacted by law or the bargaining agreement, according to the city’s Public Information Officer Jonathan Carvalho, but the recommendations will be reviewed by the city’s legal team. 
Concurrently, NBPD Police Chief Joseph Cordeiro announced he is rescinding a controversial department directive, the former High Energy Patrol Initiative, superseded by the Department’s Walk and Talk directive and community policing philosophy, effective Thursday.  ....

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