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Support to the patrol division is carried out by detectives assigned to the Investigative Division. Personnel assigned to investigations report to a Detective Sergeant working days and one working 3pm- 11pm. The detective division in many cases fills in for patrol officers when vacancies occur and in the recent year and a half over half of the detective’s time is committed to patrol because of the fiscal crisis.
The work done by the Detective division includes major cases that involve time consuming complex investigations or extra jurisdictional case work. Detectives are on call and respond to all deaths, robberies, rapes or serious assaults. They also act as case officers in complex investigations, coordinate court preparation and communications with prosecutors.
Because of manpower situations in most cases detectives must respond to calls for service regardless of their assignment or particular work tasks at the time.. This takes a great deal of time away from their assigned duties but it must be done. An average detective may have between 8 to 17 cases at a time to investigate. In many cases investigations are conducted with the help of other officers, departments or state and federal investigators. But recently a great many have been put on hold because of manpower requirements.
The Investigative Division includes the following assignments:
Detective Lieutenant Joseph Burge has been a full time police officer for the past 20 years. For the past four years he has been assigned as the Commanding officer of the Detective Bureau. His primary duties are to manage and supervise police personnel, manage and assign Detective Bureau cases, manage and disburse Detective Bureau funds, write, procure, and coordinate NESPIN grants, assist with Franklin Hampshire Narcotic Task Force grant management, and operational supervision of multi-jurisdictional personnel, procure, maintain, and monitor Detective Bureau equipment, schedule, plan, and conduct departmental trainings, conduct and supervise ongoing criminal investigations such as narcotic investigations, rape investigations, homicide investigations, robbery investigations, all types of larcenies, computer crimes, shootings, stabbings, and assault and battery with dangerous weapons cases, respond to emergency calls when needed, assist patrol with follow up investigations, process crime scenes for evidence and or manage crime scene processing , conduct internal and background investigations, train departmental personnel in: firearms, taser, use of force, legal updates, fingerprinting, crime scene processing, and defensive tactics. As the Executive Officer for the Special Response Team he is responsible for: managing special response team operations, schedule, plan, and conduct Special Response Team training, coordinate and oversee Special Response Team deployments, manage Entry Teams, Sniper Team, and Hostage Negotiation Team. The training classes he has instructed or attended are: Leadership in Police Organizations, Legal Updates Instructor, Defensive Tactics Instructor, Firearm Instructor for pistol, rifle, and shotgun, Taser Instructor, Pepper Ball Instructor, Pepper Ball Armor, Chemical Munitions Instructor, Drug Task Force Supervisors School, Narcotics Task Force Training, Law Enforcement Management School, Conducting Alcohol Sting Operations, Basic Fire Investigations, Surveillance Operations, Advanced Interviewing Techniques, Search And Seizure for Narcotics Officers, Death Investigation, Eye Witness evidence training, Hate Crime Training, Rave Club Drugs Awareness, Investigation of Computer Crime, Domestic Violence Investigations, DNA Collection, Basic Police Sniper School, New England Sniper Summit, Basic Police Sniper/Observer Certification, Narcotic Identification Class, Distraction Device Operation (flash bangs), DWI Detection and Standardized field Sobriety Testing, Infrared Breath Test Certificate, Safe Neighborhood Project (firearms identification), LEAPS/CJIS Training, Explosive Device Recognition Bomb Threat Protocols, Flying While Armed, Suicide Prevention, Full Time Police Academy, Reserve Intermittent Police Academy, CPR, and First Responder.
Detective Kevin Rowell was hired as a reserve officer on August 29th, 1993. Detective Rowell was hired full-time July 16th, 1995 and has been a full time officer for the past 13 years. Detective Rowell currently works 3-11pm. Detective Rowell is the Greenfield Police Department’s primary Narcotics Investigator. A partial list of duties include working with the public, other officers and agencies in the gathering of narcotics information, applying for both arrest warrants and search warrants, starting narcotics investigation cases, surveillance missions, management of funds to conduct operations, organizing officers locally and from other towns and agencies to assist in investigations. He is responsible for the execution of search warrants, collection of evidence, seizures of assets, arrests and charges involved in narcotics investigations, is responsible for all asset forfeitures such as property and funds, and is responsible for District and Superior court narcotics cases and case closures. Detective Rowell is also the primary Hampshire/Franklin Narcotics/Gang Task Force officer. Detective Rowell has been assigned as the Task Force officer to aid and assist working with 32 other counties in which make up the Task Force Community. Detective. Rowell has been responsible for organizing large groups of Task Force officers to curb the narcotics activity throughout both counties. The Task Force is designed to have numerous officers working together to share information which may affect surrounding communities. Detective Rowell is also a part of the entire Detective Bureau in which some duties include sexual assault crimes, property crimes, long investigative crimes and financial crimes to name a few. Detective Rowell is also responsible for, and assisting in the processing of crime scenes to include scene preservation, collection of evidence, interviews and information gathering, processing of fingerprints, comparison of fingerprints as well as other duties. Detective Rowell is also responsible for Uniform patrol shifts, responding to calls, assisting the public, enforcing motor vehicle infractions, investigation of general crimes, taking reports and handling complaints. Detective Rowell is also a senior member of the Special Response Team (SRT). Detective. Rowell has been a member of that unit for the past several years. Some duties include search and rescue, protection details, high risk entries and barricaded subjects. This would also include areas where long term scene protection or investigations are warranted. Detective Rowell is a member of the Honor Guard Unit. Duties include officer presence for special events, parades and funerals.
Detective Todd Clark has been a police officer since 1994. Detective Clark holds a Bachelors degree in Criminal Justice from Westfield State College. He is currently assigned to the Detective Bureau where he has worked for the past seven years. Detective Clark has held the positions of School Resource Officer, Field Training Officer, Bike Patrol Officer, and is a current member of the Special response Team, the Department’s Honor Guard, Department Liaison to the S.A.L.T., Computer Network Administrator for the Department, and volunteers as a Youth Commissioner in Greenfield.
Detective Laura Gordon has been a full time police officer since 1993.. Prior to being hired by Greenfield she was a full time police officer for the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. She's been a member of the Greenfield Police Department for 10 years. In October 2001 she was assigned to Greenfield’s detective division. Her duties include follow-up on lengthy general investigations, court duties, managing the alternative lock-up program and assisting patrol. Detective Gordon is the departments' primary sexual assault/child sexual assault investigator, she's also responsible for registering Level 2 and Level 3 sex offenders in the town of Greenfield and maintaining their records for the department. Detective Gordon has taught at the citizen police academy, been a D.A.R.E. instructor, a R.A.D. instructor, a member of the bike patrol and a field training officer. Detective Gordon is required to be available for scheduled on-call periods to respond to serious criminal investigations.
Detective Officer Stephen Westerling currently serves as the Court officer he has been member of the Greenfield Police Department since 2000 and a police officer since 1993. He was assigned as the Student Resource Officer starting September 2008. He has served in the roll of Field Training Officer for the past 12 years. This includes training new officers to the department in all facets and responsibilities of patrol duties, including traffic enforcement, investigations of all crimes, patrol procedures, defensive tactics, emergency vehicle operations, community policing, and all other related duties. He has previously served in the capacity of Domestic Violence Intervention Project liaison for the department.
Detective Mark Wollender our Court Officer is assigned days. His duties include bringing the arrest folders to court for arraignments, court magistrate hearings, show cause hearings, schedule trials, motions, schedule the officers for court, and ensuring proper data entry into the departmental computer system.
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