Participants in the January 26 - February 6, 2009 First Line Supervisor Course divided into five teams to complete projects and reading assignment presentations.  The teams were:

Team #1 from left to right:  Sergeant Adam Hutton, Harwich (MA) Police Department; Detective Jeff Lemoine, Berlin (NH) Police Department; Sergeant Robert Peterson, Weare (NH) Police Department; Sergeant Christopher Chute, New Britain (CT) Police Department; and Corporal Matthew Jones, Sanford (ME) Police Department.

Team #2 from left to right:  Detective Sergeant David Hemingway, Old Orchard Beach (ME) Police Department; Sergeant William Geoffroy, Winchendon (MA) Police Department; Sergeant David Galdenzi, Branford (CT) Police Department; Sergeant David Buccheri, Seabrook (NH) Police Department; and Sergeant Chuck Wallace, Hopkinton (MA) Police Department.

Team #3 from left to right:  Sergeant Matthew Amatucci, Somersworth (NH) Police Department; Corporal Scott Weiss, Center Harbor (NH) Police Department; Sergeant Jeffrey Smith, Wrentham (MA) Police Department; and Corporal Gerald Brown, Lebanon (NH) Police Department.

Team #4 from left to right:  Sergeant Mark Catania, Glastonbury (CT) Police Department; Sergeant Heather Foote, Orange (CT) Police Department; Sergeant  Joe Geary, Somersworth (NH) Police Department; and Patrolman Philip McLaughlin, Meredith (NH) Police Department.

Team #5 from left to right:  Sergeant Michael A. Morin, University of Connecticut Police Department; Sergeant Mark Minnella, Middletown (RI) Police Department; Sergeant John W. Parsons, Grantham (NH) Police Department; and Corporal Jason Champlin, Sanford (ME) Police Department.

Chiefs' Roundtable Discussion

Chief Ross Atstupenas, Blackstone (MA) Police Department; Chief Brian Sullivan, Lincoln (RI) Police Department; and Chief Mark Chase, Center Harbor (ME) Police Department fielded questions posed by the class during the New England Association of Chief of Police Roundtable.

Rounding out the graduation, class speaker Corporal Matthew Jones urged his class mates "to return to their departments ready, willing, and able to patiently but persistently implement the tools and leadership tactics they'd learned here.  Don't throw your binders away.  Do refer to them from time to time.  Always remind yourself of what you wanted in your sergeant when you were a patrol officer, and frequently ask yourself if you are meeting those expectations.  We've all seen the person who goes away to a professional training only to return no different from when he or she left.  Make a vow that this will not be you... (To the administrators in attendance) You would implore us to be owners, not renters, no doubt. So how do we all willingly become owner vs. renter?  We, the corporals and sergeants, have to feel like we have a stake in it all.  And my respectful request to you, the chiefs and upper level managers, is to keep us in the know.   Pick our brains.  Ask our opinions."