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New Police Chief Walter Correia (left) and retired former Chief John Walcek (right). Photos courtesy: Wareham Police Department and Meghan Neely
Out with the old guard and in with the new: Wareham officially has its next chief of police.
The Board of Selectmen unanimously approved hiring Walter Correia who has served in the department for years, most recently as a lieutenant to replace former Chief John Walcek, who retired April 17.
During the April 20 Selectmen’s meeting, Town Administrator Derek Sullivan told the board that he’s known Correia for about a decade. He said it’s been an honor to serve Wareham alongside Correia.
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WAREHAM – Chief John Walcek’s three-plus decades of service on the Wareham Police Dept. come to a close Saturday, April 17.
He’s working right up until then.
“The day-to-day stuff keeps rolling in so I’m dealing with that,” he said last week.
He was on duty at Saturday’s massive outdoor town meeting at Spillane Field, and offered a thumb’s up to the cheering crowd when introduced by Town Moderator Claire Smith.
He demurred on interjecting himself and addressing the crowd from the podium, though.
Asked during an interview whether he was prepared for people to leap out from behind station office furniture for a surprise retirement party in these closing days, he laughed.
Apr 12, 2021
Late on Monday morning, the conductor on a train traveling on the tracks near Pierceville Road in West Wareham was hit by a shot from a pellet gun.
Police Chief John Walcek said that it may have been an accident and that the train employee received a minor injury.
Wareham Police, Plymouth County K-9s and State Police K-9s searched the area and spoke to people nearby.
The incident is under investigation by the Wareham Police. No charges have yet been filed.
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