Briefly: NHPD arrests five in Friday drug raid 3.30.09
At the first meeting of the Yale Police Department’s fourth annual Citizen’s Police Academy on Tuesday night, an enthusiastic group of Yale and New Haven community members gathered to learn first-hand about the structure and operations of the YPD.
New Haven police officer Dennis O’Connell is being sued in federal courts with allegations of brutality and an illegal strip search. While city union cops defended O’Connell, citing the difficulties of patrolling violent neighborhoods, the officer’s record contained eight complaints of excessive force within recent years. Not one of the those complaints resulted in...
One year after the Police Executive Research Forum issued a report recommending sweeping changes for the New Haven Police Department — which created three new assistant chief positions and a revitalized Vice/Narcotics unit — PERF Executive Director Chuck Wexler lauded the changes in a news conference last week.
Hundreds of New Haven residents, in both uniform and plain clothes, lined George Street on Saturday morning to offer words of tribute and mourning in honor of the late Sgt. Dario “Scott” Aponte.
In a move in-keeping with his zero-tolerance stance on corruption, New Haven Police Chief James Lewis placed Michael Hunter, a seasoned NHPD detective, on administrative leave for the alleged exploitation of a national crime database, the New Haven Independent reported.
New Haven Police Department Chief James Lewis officially promoted Peter Reichard to assistant chief of investigations at a Thursday-afternoon ceremony at NHPD headquarters.
Late Tuesday night, New Haven Police Department Sgt. Dario Aponte was killed in a car crash while responding to a call.
New Haven leaders want to see the city launch a broader attack on correlated problems such as drug abuse and domestic violence to help get women off the streets before they turn to prostitution. But with city and state money hard to come by, are these leaders just tilting at windmills?
New Haven streets may soon see the benefits of cutting-edge, crime-fighting technology — $374,120 worth.
The New Haven Police Department on Wednesday paid tribute to the 19 officers who have been killed in the line of duty over the almost 150 years of the force’s history.
Coupled with several high-profile arrests this summer, new leadership at the NHPD has signaled progress toward an outside consultant’s recommendations for the department, issued last November.