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COP TALK: I wonder if anyone in authority in Worcester has ever regretted saying something more than Worcester Police Chief Steven M. Sargent probably regrets saying, “In my 35 years I have not observed racism in the department. We would not allow it. It has been practically a sport for armchair investigators, bloggers and journalists to turn up incidents and allegations of police brutality and institutional racism with the department, much of which has been chronicled in this column. So it probably shouldn t be surprising that the biggest social media buzz of the past few days has been Brad Petrishen s article for the Telegram & Gazette, “Despite chief s claim, Worcester investigated racist police incidents,” which highlights six investigations of racial complaints in the past decade, as detailed in documents provided after a public records request by the newspaper. As has been the hallmark of the ongoing public dialog between the Worcester Police Departm
“He had a passion for serving the public,” Nichols said.
Borges lost a tough battle with COVID-19 on Thursday Christmas Eve, Nichols said.
The news hit the department hard, Nichols said. Borges, who had been with the department for the past 20 years, was beloved among his colleagues, Nichols said.
Nichols said Borges, who was 49, was a quiet, cheerful presence, who tended to work the midnight shift and was always willing to go out of his way to help others.
Borges would have been the first to volunteer to work a holiday shift, Nichols said.
In fact, Borges was on duty as recently as Thanksgiving.
TAUNTON An officer with the Taunton Police Department, who also was an integral part of the Southeastern Massachusetts Law Enforcement Council (SEMLEC), passed away on Christmas Eve at the age of 49 after battling COVID-19.
According to a press release from SEMLEC, Officer John Borges was one of the founding members of the SEMLEC Search and Rescue Unit in 2003.
Somerset Police Chief George McNeil, the control chief and head of the SEMLEC SAR, called Borges the glue that held the team together and one of the region s preeminent experts on search techniques. Officer Borges worked the midnight to 8 a.m. shift, and when there was an active search for a missing person, he would regularly stay past his shift and continue to work, on his own time. He didn t even put in for overtime, Chief McNeil said. I have been a police officer for 34 years, and I learned new things every time I worked with Officer Borges. He was excellent at his job – the job of finding lost people.
SWAT team surrounds home in Wareham as convicted murderer Gino Gaillardetz, wanted for recent crime in Boston, hid in attic
Updated Dec 24, 2020;
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Multiple law enforcement agencies surrounded a home in Wareham on Tuesday night as a convicted murderer - wanted in connection with a recent incident in Boston - hid from police in an attic, authorities said.
The local and state police along with Southeastern Massachusetts Law Enforcement Council SWAT team, the Plymouth County Sheriff’s Department, and a command unit from the Metropolitan Law Enforcement Council secured a home where Gino Gaillardetz, 56, of Chelsea hid in an attic, police said.