OUR TOWN

MILLBURY POLICE DEPARTMENT
PERSONNEL SUMMARY
The department has seen significant personnel changes during the past fiscal year,
beginning with the retirement of longtime Chief of Police Richard Handfield at the beginning
July 1, 2011, then the return of Sergeant Donald Desorcy to patrol duties from three months as
Acting Chief, at which time began my duties as Chief. This created a vacancy within the
supervisory ranks. In February, Officer Thomas Hall was appointed to the rank of Sergeant on a
provisional basis.
Officer Keith Gasco and Officer Jacob Webb were interviewed this year, hired, and are
currently in the midst of the 22-weeks of training at the Boylston Police Academy. We welcome
all of our new members to the department. Overall, the department staffing has decreased since
2008 from 20 sworn members to 15 sworn members, excluding myself.
2011 – PERSONELL SUMMARY
1980 1990 2000 2008 2009 2010 2011
Sworn 18 17 19 20 19 18 16
Chief 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Sergeants 4 5 4 5 4 4 4
Officers 13 11 14 14 14 13 11
Dispatch 2 3 4 4 4 4 4
Administrative
Assistant
1 1 1 1 1 1 1
TRAINING
With the recent reduction in-service training provided by the state, the department now
has to do more training in-house. Sergeant Stephen McFaul and Officer Matthew McGrath have
been certified to teach CPR/First Aid, which is required annually. Officer Jason Burdett, has
been assigned as a firearms instructor. All of the dispatchers and officers trained to dispatch
have been certified in emergency medical dispatch (EMD) procedures. This is due to the
required implementation of EMD procedures by the Commonwealth. The training was paid for
through a state grant.
DEPARTMENT STATISTICS
The Millbury Police Department, through the computer dispatch and records system,
compiles various data resulting from: arrests, accidents, citations, incidents/investigations, and
summonses. The database contains both criminal and non-criminal statistics. Data related to
criminal offenses or incidents is reported to the Massachusetts State Police and FBI under the
National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS). This category of crime statistics are more
commonly known as incident-based reporting (IBR) offenses and represents a general summary
of crime data.