PAX Centurion - Fall 2016

Page 52 • PAX CENTURION • Fall 2016 617-989-BPPA (2772) By P.O. William Shaw & P.O. James Lydon, Boston Police Academy Academy Corner I would like to open this article by offering our thoughts and prayers to Salem Police Officer Jessica Rondinelli. Officer Rondinelli was one of our four Salem officers who graduated in Boston PoliceAcademy Recruit Class #55-15 in late June. Officer Rondinelli had a large piece of her ear bitten off by a drunken 19 year-old woman while Officer Rondinelli was attempting to place her in a cruiser. Several of our academy staff members have reached out to her and she is doing as well as one could expect under the circumstances. Another example of you just never know… Our active shooter training program remains in high gear. Our active shooter training staff consists of Sergeant James Blake and Police Officers KevinWelsh, John Downey, and Ricky Rabb. Their services are in great demand and should have citizens prepared for our responses to their institutions and workplaces. Some of the sites we trained this summer are Boston Public Schools, the Boston Public Library, the Children’s Hospital, Work Inc., Local 12 Plumbers and Pipefitters Union, and the Boston Herald. Unfortunately, we expect continued high demand for this service due to the state of the world in which we live. After graduating Recruit Class #55-15, we were very busy in the building this summer. Officer Owens and his teen academy staff graduated 48 teens from their excellent program (please see the related article in this issue of the Pax ). In addition, over 200 Life Insurance Tax-Free Retirement Wealth Building Estate Planning Inheritance Strategy New Business Foundations Investments College Funding Maximizing Social Security Strategies ... and more! “I wish somebody had shown me all this before, this is incredible!” “I never knew this could be done. You should teach a class at the Academy!” FREE PERSONALIZED FINANCIAL PLANNING KEVIN J. PISHKIN Former Police Officer in Boston Retired On Injury Financial Consultant New York Life Boston General Office 781-223-3791 “The job is hard enough as it is, let’s make sure you retire wealthy!” Benevolent Society, and Superior Officers’ Federation, Mayor Walsh, Commissioner Evans, Capt. Connolly, Capt. Sexton, Lt. Driscoll, Chief Gross, Fr. “Doc” Conway for leading us in prayer, Mark Bruno for being the DJ, Pat McCarthy fromMaddy’s Moon Bounces, Margaret Sullivan fromArchives, Metro Sign andAwning, Seacoast Events, Busy Bee Rentals, Tom from T.G. Contracting Corp, Ahmed and Norman from DPW, Ray Tomasini and the crew from Facilities, Billy Flippin for bringing the Goose, Tommy Griffiths for going above and beyond on a day that he didn’t have to, Tommy Porter, Chuck Kelley, Jack Rogers, Jerry O’Brien, Louie Lopez, and Nick Belliveau for helping set up, cook and serve and clean up, Sgt. Sean Smith, the Twelve Bens for putting up with us after a long day, City Councillor Annissa Essaibi-George, Joe Cheevers for playing the bag pipes, Kelly Maher who led the games and contests and Justine Hasson, Michael Geary, Kelsey Wrick and Kelly Stevens for face painting all day. Last but not least, Brandon Carey, who helped out from the very beginning to the very end. It is great to see a young Officer who gets it. In the coming years, we will honor more of our brothers and sisters. We also plan on having more Family Days. Hopefully they will only get bigger and better. I hope to see you there. children from throughout the city spent one day of the week in our building with the PAL/BPD Junior PoliceAcademy. We held an MPTCActive Shooter Instructor Course over three very hot days in the middle of July. This course was for active shooter instructors from all over the state. We held in-service training for the Boston School Police. In the middle of all this, we were even able to squeeze in a few weeks of vacation. Man, does summer go by fast! In September, we will host the DEA Basic Drug Course, which will run from September 12 th to the 23 rd . On September 12 th , we will also begin our 2016 BPD In-Service program. For those of you who are coming for training, we ask you to stack your cars in our lot in rows of three. Stack your cars with the group you are with so you can come and go all at the same time. If you park your car in the front of the row, you will end up getting blocked in and you will be wasting the two spaces behind you. We are sorry but this is a police facility and thus we have inadequate parking. Our goal for the 2016 BPD In-Service program is to train all of BFS. Last year, we trained over 1,200 officers and superiors from September through November. This year’s schedule will be from September 12 th to November 4 th . Police officers will be trained fromMonday to Thursday, and superior officers will be trained on Fridays. In-service hours are from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm, and the dress is business casual. The daily schedule will be Police Response to Mental Illness (8:00 am-11:30 am), Lunch (11:30 am-12:30 pm), De-escalation / Use of Force / Spit Shield Training (12:30 pm-2:30 pm), and Suicide Prevention (2:30 pm-4:00 pm). In closing, our staff is proud to be a support unit for our department, and we are committed to training our members. If you need assistance, please call us at 4410. Thank you! C11MemorialWall Plaque Dedication and FamilyDay… From C1 on page 39