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Police chief reports patrol workload and offender registry changes; select board reviews cruiser financing options
Summary
Police Chief Ed Dumas presented department statistics showing declines in some offense categories and a steady calls pattern; the board reviewed financing proposals for a new cruiser from McGovern Municipal HQ and asked staff to seek competitive financing given high quoted interest rates.
Ed Dumas, town police chief, presented monthly and quarterly call and case statistics at the Jan. 28 Select Board meeting and updated the board on patrol workload and staffing arrangements, including how transfers of calls between local and state police units affect counts.
Dumas highlighted the department’s top incident categories for fiscal 2024 and said some enforcement areas, such as sex-offender registry violations, have declined in parts of town. He also walked through call-volume charts by time of day and day of week, pointing out that Wednesdays are…
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