- Good evening everyone.

Before we start, I have to

announce this Commissioner

Bogan is gonna participate

in the meeting remotely.

Are you there?

- Yes, I am

- In accordance

to RSA nine one dash a dash two three A.

Commissioner Bogan, is it

reasonably impractical for you

to be physically pre

present at this meeting?

- Yes. It was impractical for

me to be physically present.

- Therefore, I find that it

is not reasonable practical

for Commissioner Bogan to be

physically present from this meeting.

Commissioner Bogan, can

you identify all other

persons physically present

in your current location?

- I'm alone in the room.

You might hear my dog

clicking, but that's it.

- Okay. Any motions

that we'll make tonight

will be done by roll call.

So at this time could I have call to order

and we'll start by the pledge.

Alle, everyone please try.

- Call to order first.

- I did say call to order.

- Oh, alright.

- I

- Pledge of alle to the

flag of the United States.

- The United States of America.

And to the republic. For which

- One? Nation.

- Nation Under God, indivisible. Liberty.

With liberty and justice all

- Please remain stand for opening prayer.

- Gracious Father, we come

before you this evening

and Father, we are just so grateful

for your blessing upon us.

Father, we give thanks for the men

and the women who don the badge each

and every day who selflessly take on

that, that role of police

officer here in the

community of Rochester.

We ask Lord that you continue

to protect them during their shift.

Off shift. We ask Lord that

you surround their family

with your protection as well.

And Father, we thank you the

families of all of the men

and women that are police

officers here, Lord, that

the sacrifice that they

make as a family to support

and to allow their fam,

their family members to do

what they do to protect

this city, Lord, we, it,

it does not go unnoticed

or un unappreciated Lord.

And we thank you for the, we

ask Father that you would be

present in this meeting tonight.

We ask Lord for your wisdom

and discernment as decisions

and votes are made.

And Lord, we'll just be careful

to give you the praise for

what you will do in and

through this meeting tonight.

It's in your precious

name I pray. Amen. Amen.

- Amen.

- Roll

- Call please.

- Thank you sir. Okay, Commissioner Bogan

- Present.

- Commissioner Lachelle

present. Commissioner Stevens.

- Present. Next item on

business, public comment.

Is there anybody here

that would like to get up

and, and speak before us?

Okay. None at this time. We'll

go to accept in a minute.

I'd like a motion for January 8th, 2025.

I move that we accept the minutes

of January 8th, 2025 as written.

Is there a second? Second.

Okay, second. Roll call vote please.

- Commissioner Bogan?

- Yes. Commissioner

- Lachelle.

Yes. Commissioner Stevens.

- Yes. Moving right on old

and unfinished business.

The first item we have

is policy update 2.1 0.3.

Jurisdiction mutual aid.

Second reading for adoption.

Do I have a motion for second

reading and for adoption?

So moved.

- Second

- Roll call please.

- Commissioner Bogan?

- Yes. Commissioner

- Elle?

Yes. Commissioner Stevens?

- Yes. Next time we're gonna

deviate a little bit, I'm going

to entertain a motion to

go in non-public in wait.

The non-public will be after.

After we complete the new business. But

- Sonu move, wanna amend the agenda. Okay.

- To

- Moving non-public

after item five B The employee awards.

After the awards are

presented, then we'll go

to non-public check.

- But I want to have that motion now. Yes.

'cause we won't be, go back.

So the motion that we're

making is after five B,

after we do the Otto office

and annual employee awards

that we'll take a break,

people can do pitches and all that stuff.

And then we'll go back for non public

and then we'll come back

on and finish the meeting.

So I'd like to entertain a

motion to go non-public pursuant

to RSA 91 dash A three personnel

and E for legal.

Do I have a motion in a second? So moved.

- Second

- Roll call please. Commissioner

- Bogan?

- Yes. Commissioner

- Elle?

Yes. Commissioner Stevens. Yes.

So at this time my favorite

part of the meeting,

we're gonna go to swearing,

an oath of a new officer

and some awards.

That's the best part of the meeting. Thank

- You.

- All right. Good evening everybody.

Nice to see a packed audience today for us

to hand out some awards

and to also swear in our newest member

of the police department.

So we'll start with our

swearing in ceremony.

So if I can have Officer Shane

Bradley come up to the stage

and Officer Aiden Birmingham

who is going to pin him

- Stand right here.

- So just to give a quick intro

to the community for about Shane.

Shane's a New Hampshire native.

He comes to us from PLA

style police department

where he's been, was employed

there since September of 22.

He attended the hundred 91st

New Hampshire Police Academy.

He was a classmate of

Officer Birmingham's there

and it was Officer

Birmingham who recruited him,

I'll say, to come here.

So in his time in Plata,

he's had experience working

in the patrol division,

also served in detectives

down there at their PD

prior to police work.

He has experience working in the trades

and he honorably served our

country in the US Marine Corps.

So we are proud to have

Shane with us choosing

to join us today in the police department.

And it's a benefit to the city

to accept a officer who's

already been through the academy.

As we don't have to send them

to the 16 weeks of training.

We're able to do our

in-house training program,

get 'em into field training,

and then out onto the

street as soon as possible

to serve the citizens of Rochester.

So if Becky, if I can

have you come forward

to administer the oath,

- Raise your right hand.

I'm gonna say I you're gonna

state your name for me.

I, Shane Bradley. Do solemnly swear.

Do solemnly swear that I will

faithfully and impartially.

That I will faithfully and impartially

discharge and perform.

Discharge and perform all

the duties. All the duties.

Incumbent on me. Incumbent

on me as a patrol officer.

As a patrol officer with the

Rochester Police Department,

with the Rochester Police Department.

According to the best of my

abilities, according to the best

of my abilities, agreeable to the rules

and regulations, agreeable to the rules

and regulations of the Constitution

and the laws of the Constitution

and the laws of the

state of New Hampshire.

Of the state of New

Hampshire. So help me God.

So help me God. Congratulations

- Aiden.

You wanna do the honors? Absolutely.

- Chief way. So get a good

picture. Sideways. Oh, sideways.

Thank you.

Congratulations. Alright, all set.

- So to start our awards

portion this evening, I'll say

that we solicit every year for

awards from our staff members

for a support person of the

year, officer of the year,

and the Ted Bla Memorial Award each year

and in my career, this is a first for me.

We had a record, record

number of nominations

which did not make the

task for our admin to sift

through the nominations

and decide on the awards.

So it's great to see

coworkers nominating other coworkers

and you know, really

putting an effort forward

to show the great work

that the people are

doing day in and day out.

So kudos to everybody

who submitted for people.

I think it's great. So we'll start off

with our support person of the year.

So Shauna, if I can have

you come to the stage

with anybody that you would like.

So to introduce Shauna

to everybody, she's one

of our admin techs who works

in our records department.

She is the smiling face

that you see when you come into

the PD lobby during the day.

She was nominated by several

of her peers for the work

that she does day in and day out.

She's been employed here

at the PD since 2021.

And as I said, she's the first person

that you see when you come in.

And she has the privilege

sometimes of dealing with people

who are generally committed,

who might not be very happy

with why they're there.

But she is a smiling face.

She often calms people down

and really starts off that

interaction in a pleasant manner.

She's consistently professional,

delivers the highest level

of customer service to the

people that she's dealing with.

She is the main point

person who deals with all

of our records requests

and deals with the insurance companies

and the state for handling

of these, these records.

So without her hard

work behind the scenes,

we wouldn't be able to be successful.

So we'd like to honor you

and we have a plaque for you

as the 2024 support person

of the year in recognition

of your superior performance

with the Rochester Police Department.

- Thank you. Congratulations.

- So we'll move on to the 2024

Police officer of the year.

If I can have Officer Brian

Dale come to the stage

with anybody that he would like,

- Wants get a photo.

- All right. So Brian

had a record number of eight nominations

by his coworkers for this award.

He's been with us since 2022.

He was recognized some, some of the things

that people said about him

in their nominations letters.

He has a great attitude,

very knowledgeable

for his time as an officer.

Works hard to expand his knowledge.

Does an excellent job

of building, building

and developing rapport with

individuals he's dealing

with on service calls.

He's very empathetic to individuals.

He's react, he's interacting

with, he's a team player,

always is positive, motivated,

he's very self-motivated

and one of the highest proactive officers

within the patrol division.

He looks to solve problems,

not just the symptoms.

And he, during this year, he

took it the lead on a couple

of situations that we were

dealing with in neighborhoods

and really was the lead

person on working through them

and improved the neighborhoods.

He's one of the officers who willingly

and often takes a ride along from citizens

or perspective employees

and we always get positive feedback

from these people on

their experience with him.

So one of his i'll,

the last comment is one of his nominations

from somebody says that he

feels Officer Dale will someday

make a good supervisor.

So just saying, oh yeah, not yet.

So we have a plaque 2024 police officer

of the year presented to

Brian Dale in recognition

of superior performance

with the Rochester Police Department.

Congratulations.

- Thank you.

Congratulations. Hey,

- So our last award is the

Chief Ted Blair Memorial Award.

If I can have members of the

Blair family, if they'd like

to come up and join me on stage, please.

So if we can, if I can have

Detective Matt Kimball come up

to the stage and bring

anybody that he would like.

- So,

- So

The Chief Blair Memorial Award named

after former Chief late chief Ted Blair.

I didn't have the pleasure

of working with him,

but you hear stories specifically

from Becky of her time

and the enjoyment that she

had working with him in the,

in the type of person that he was.

So I'm gonna read the nomination letter

that was given for, for Matt.

I'd like to nominate

Detective Matthew Kimball

for the Chief Theodore

Blair Junior Memorial Award.

When I looked at characteristics

of Chief Blair possessed the

past Memorial Award recipients,

I believe Matt will be a great selection.

He always conducts himself

in a professional manner,

maintaining a positive

attitude, even when he deals

with traumatic cases involving

crimes against children.

He's the first to ask a

coworker how they're doing

and often has the room laughing

with his sense of humor.

Matt has a leadership role in the military

and has taken a leadership role

with the Strafford County

Regional Tactical Operations

Unit As a sniper.

He helps train the SWAT

team with his knowledge

of woodland navigation

and tactics in Investigative

Services Bureau.

He has taken on additional

responsibilities dealing

with internet crimes against children,

and being one of our

subject matter experts in

cell phone extractions.

Matt often sends out helpful

resources to the department

to help provide further training.

He's well liked by his peers,

communicates effectively with everyone.

He works with his ability to

maintain positive attitude

and motivate others to help

accomplish the department's mission.

When I think of the term police

professional, I am honored

to say I work with multiple

people who come to mind.

Matt is one of those individuals

and will be a great addition

to the Chief Theater,

Blair Junior Memorial Award recipients.

This is submitted by one of his coworkers,

detective Kyle Daney.

So Matt, congratulations

and we have a plaque

and ribbon for you that

we will have members

of Blair family present to you.

So congratulations.

So if you'd like to say

a couple of quick words,

the microphone is yours.

- Well then thank you very

much for the kind words, Kyle,

and for the recommendation for this.

I just hope that I can live

up to the legacy that this,

you know, that this award represents.

So thank you.

- He did say he has a sense of humor.

So, so we will

transition out of the wards,

we'll get this off the stage here.

We'll take a vote and we'll

go to a non-public session

to conduct some non-public business

with the Police Commission.

I welcome everybody to

stay, to use the stage

with a backdrop to do any photos

that you would like with our recipients.

And then we will, after that

our non-public is finished,

we'll come back out to

finish our public meeting.

So excuse us for a minute as

we get this out of the way.

Go back. We have to take the

vote to move to non-public. You

- Did the vote already.

Okay. We just need to reload

- Time.

All right. Then we'll move

to non-public at this time

- To the public portion of the meeting.

I will like to entertain a

motion to accept the, the evals.

I move. So moved. So moved.

Second. Second. Second.

Roll call. Commissioner Bogan.

Yes. Commissioner Laha. Yes.

Commissioner Stevens. Yes.

So continuing on, we are now

in item five B monthly reports.

- Thank you Commissioner.

I'll just touch on

some key points on our

support services bureau.

Starting with our detectives

units, we had seven

ISB callouts during this reporting period.

Very busy month for

detectives regarding that.

They currently have one active

background investigation

going hopefully some more

regarding our dispatch center.

One of our trainees was

recently released to

solo dispatching.

So that's always encouraging.

We've talked every month about how

staffing has been down in that center.

So it's always good when we have somebody

that gets off a field training.

We still have one other person

that is still in training

and two other people have

been past their backgrounds

and have been given start dates leaving us

with one open position

in the dispatch center.

So right now things are

trending better than they have

in the past several years in the center.

So that's really encouraging to see.

And we obviously, we

hope that it continues.

We had some training

during the month for both,

for all staff regarding harassment

and our required annual

trainings for the academy.

As well as some in-house trainings.

We've helped training

some of the newer officers

and people that are on field training.

So we continue to do a a,

a good job getting people

ready for certain things.

Before I move on, do you

have any questions so far?

- I do not. Anybody? Nope. Okay. No.

- Excellent. Our school

resource officers in the middle

school and in the high

school still continue

to teach lead classes and

perform their other SRO duties.

Their tremendous help to

the schools. And for us.

We have begun our explorer program.

We've had some trainings with them on,

I believe it's Tuesday nights.

And that seems to be

very successful this far.

They seem to be enjoying it.

The instructors seem to

be taking a liking to it

and they've kind of revamped

the format a little bit this year.

And so far it seems to be

off to a, a great start.

- Do you know how many

participants we have

in that Explorers?

- I think 20. Wow.

If I remember correctly,

I'm not, I'm, I'm not sure.

I'm not sure on the positive number,

but I, I think it was around 20 the last

time I, I had checked into it.

- Yeah. Last night they

have their meetings on

Tuesday nights and last

night when I looked

in, all the seats were filled.

So it was about 18 to

20 kids that were there.

So that's that's awesome.

Yeah, and we were about the same last

year too, so that's good.

- Wow.

- I'm gonna move on

to our Diversion Dream

Teen Drug Court program.

Some things to note are,

we had another successful teen night

where they had about 120

students in attendance.

We helped participate in

Winter Fest on January 25th,

which was also a success about estimated

around 300 in attendance for that as well.

It was a decent day

and a, a good turnout for,

for that kind of weather.

So we were pleased with that.

And unless you have any questions,

that's really all I have to report out on.

- No, I, I just, one comment.

I had the opportunity to

stop in tea night last month.

I found that it was very

well organized and run

and we had some great staff there.

I think it's a great event. It

gives that age group a chance

to go to do something in, in

a safe environment, which,

which is something that

we need to continue to do.

So it's very well done. Yeah. Thank you.

Okay. I'm sorry. Move

- On.

Thank you Commissioners for

the administrative report

on the financial purchasing end.

The lines are all, are

where we expect them to be.

Also, we are approaching

the end of the building,

the fiscal year 26 budget.

We've created our requested

budget, submitted it

to the City Manager and

the finance department,

and the chief has started on

a lot of the presentations

explaining what we're asking for

and why for our upcoming budget

on the training and hiring end.

Captain Pinkham already mentioned it,

but there is a increase in the

required hours starting this,

excuse me, for January, 2025.

Required hours per officer,

per the academy is 24 hours.

We don't generally have a

problem meeting that requirement

because we do send officers

to a lot of trainings.

But now that is mandated

through the academy.

Some of the trainings, this past month

we had four officers attend a

DEA basic narcotics symposium.

Three officers attended a

interview and interrogation class.

Three officers, excuse

me, two officers Identi

attended a drug identification training.

Andres were a mass, our three, excuse me,

our four officers who are in

field training have progressed

to phase three of field training.

They're progressing well.

Officer Claire Buff

completed field training

and she had her training review board

and she's been on solo

patrol for some time now.

We saw that Officer Shane

Bradley has come onto the department.

He is now in field training as well.

We expect his field training

to go relatively quick

because of his experience with Plato.

Our two officers in the

academy, officer Stevens

and Officer LaClaire are

progressing well in the academy

and we continue to interview

qualified candidates.

We have multiple people

in the background stage

and we currently have four

openings for police officers.

- Is that including the one tonight?

- No, we are after tonight's

meeting. We have four after

- Tonight.

- Any other questions?

- No, I I, I'm good.

And, and the pat is,

we're still recruiting good offices.

We haven't less than our standards.

We haven't lessened our requirements.

Everybody that we've been

hiring have been very good

applicants and should

make fine police officers.

And I think it's proven

in the past that the ones

that have gone through and

on the streets now has proved

that our process may tough,

but it it's a good process

and it's worth it at the end

of the, at the end of the day.

- Absolutely.

- I that's, you know,

you guys are doing your

whole department chief

and all you guys are doing a great job on,

on our recruiting retention.

It's very well noticed. Okay.

Anybody, any questions? All right.

No, chief, you have anything under other

- I, I just, I do.

It's kind of dovetailing off the Deputy

chiefs talking a little bit.

So FY 26 budget has been submitted.

The budget process is

well in way as he said

this past Saturday.

The deputy and I took part in the

CIP budget committee meeting.

So it's a new process.

This is the second year

of this process with the CIP committee.

So we were here on Saturday

where we presented our two CIP projects

for this fiscal upcoming fiscal year.

Our two projects are annual

cruiser replacement program.

We're asking for three frontline cars

that are replacing vehicles

and we're asking for one

backline car that's a replacement

to the one that we moved

to the parking division.

Parking division prior

to this past year hasn't

had its own vehicle.

And with the changes that

are coming in the city

for parking, more parking

enforcement, parking regulations,

they needed a vehicle to get around.

So we took one of our back line

vehicles to dedicate to that.

So it's kind of replacing a backline

vehicle for our detectives.

Our second project is our a

weapons replacement project.

Our handguns that we

currently have in service

have been in service

since approximately 2008.

So we are past the point,

the industry standards

around 10 years for replacement.

But these weapons have

held up very, very well.

So we haven't had the

need to replace them,

but we're coming to the

point of we feel we need

to make that replacement. So,

- So do you have a weapon in mind?

- We, well, the, the CIP

committee made mention

of it on Saturday.

Obviously, SIG Sour is now

a large employer in the city

and we will certainly reach out to them

to talk about their products,

but we will do our due diligence

and look at all manufacturers

and what we will our best value as well.

So I would, as I said on

Saturday, I would love to partner

and be able to work with sig.

But you know, we, we

are check all the boxes.

We gotta check all the boxes.

We're gotta be fiscally

responsible to our, to

the city and the citizens.

So we will do our due diligence.

- Good.

- And that's all I had for other

- Okay.

Basically last item correspondence.

And we have a couple items on that.

Detective Livingstone, detective Dcos

and Officer Ganter are thanked

by the brought police

standards for assisting

during the 1 98 session

of the police academy.

And I think that's a, I

think that's great when we,

when we bring some of our

officers in detectives up there

because it, it gives them more

experience teaching things

and it's also part of our

responsibility to help

the whole police, police

department in the state stand.

So I think it's a good dividend.

- Yes. Being able to, to give

back to the next generation

of law enforcement is important.

There's a caveat to it.

When we send an officer up

there to be an instructor

and to help out with

training, it actually helps

to also count towards their

training hours requirements.

So there is a bonus

to sending people off edge

to assist assist classes.

- Those are the good ones.

And the second one is, officer

Mill is thanked by resident

for professionalism in

conducting a traffic stop.

And as I was reading the email, I,

I was in, I was in impressed

by, you know, officer Mills

because it was a dad that wrote

the email to the department

thanking how Officer Mill was,

because it was a, a, her daughter,

her daughter just learning

how to drive driver's training

and she made, didn't put that

the new driver, learning how

to train with a dad there into a

very uncomfortable situation.

She made it feel comfortable. And part

that really made me proud

of was that he goes,

he was proud that she

works for our community.

So those are the type of

positive experiences that I like

to see when, if there's a traffic stop

and something like that, it

became something, you know,

a positive for both the driver,

the father and everybody.

And, you know, that's what

we're trying to, we're trying to

make sure people are driving safely

and, and things like that.

Not out there to be, you know,

I don't know how to say it,

but not being, you know,

harassing people, trying

to just help 'em force the law

and learn to be good drivers.

So that was, that was a

great email when I read that.

I was very, very taken by that.

So if we have, do we have

any other information

or anything anybody needs to present

before the the commission?

No. Then one of my favorite

motions is a motion to Adjourn.

Motion. Second. Okay. Do you

need a roll call on that?

I don't believe so, no. All

in favor? Aye Aye Aye. Okay.

We are now adjourned. Thank you.