Healey highlights Project Safe Neighborhood grants, local policing partnerships in Holyoke

Governor Maura Healey visited Holyoke and joined state and local law enforcement leaders at the city’s EOPS Center to showcase Project Safe Neighborhood (PSN) grant-funded partnerships and local public safety work.

The gathering brought together state police, district attorneys, municipal chiefs and community organizations to discuss how state funding from the Office of the Governor is being used both for investigations and for prevention programs such as after‑school activities run by local Boys & Girls Clubs and YMCAs.

Healey said the administration directs PSN funds to local police departments and district attorneys so they can “do law enforcement work that they need to do and, you know, take guns off the street and take drugs off the street and make for a better quality of life.” She told attendees the grants support both investigative…