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Police commission emphasizes statutory independence and local traffic authority
Summary
Police leaders told the CRC the police commission’s independent authority — including appointment and promotion powers under state statute — helps insulate the department from politics; the commission described its role as local traffic authority and outlined succession and hiring practices.
The New Canaan Police Commission and the police chief told the Charter Revision Commission that the commission’s statutory powers are deliberate safeguards against politicization.
"Such board has the sole power of appointment, promotion, removal of the officers and members of such police department," a CRC member read aloud referencing the state statute governing police commissions. The chief and…
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