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Somersworth police chief asks council to reallocate grant-funded post to fight opioid, stimulant crisis
Summary
Chief John Sunderland, Somersworth’s police chief, asked the City Council on May 5 to reallocate a previously funded community policing position to create a Prevention, Enforcement and Treatment (PETA) officer focused on opioid, stimulant and substance-use response.
Chief John Sunderland, Somersworth’s police chief, asked the City Council on May 5 to reallocate a previously funded community policing position to create a Prevention, Enforcement and Treatment (PETA) officer focused on opioid, stimulant and substance-use response.
Sunderland said the city previously held a COPS grant-funded community policing post and that the department received a COSAP grant — the Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant and Substance Abuse Program — to target the local drug epidemic. “What I come to you with is two things,” he told the council, including a recommendation “that we take that community oriented policing position that the city got in 2019 and reallocate that position to what’s called PETA, or…
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