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Governor: State Police Bringing In ‘Strategic Expert’ To Help Guide Agency; Report Says Federal Grand Jury Investigating

June 2, 2018

The superintendent of the Massachusetts State Police is going to engage an outside expert to help guide the troubled agency, Governor Charlie Baker said.

Kerry Gilpin, the superintendent of the State Police, is “planning to bring in somebody who is pretty well known, I think, to people in Massachusetts, who’s considered to be a pretty sharp law enforcement management strategic expert to provide guidance to her and to her leadership team there,” Baker told the editorial board of the Worcester Telegram & Gazette.

He didn’t say who it is.

The State Police have been dealing with multiple scandals, including the scrubbing of a police report describing the arrest of a judge’s daughter and overtime pay for phantom shifts.

The Boston Globe, citing unnamed sources, reported Friday night that a federal grand jury is investigating the phantom shifts scandal.


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