Eight new police officers were sworn into the ranks of the Westchester County Police last week by County Executive George Latimer and Public Safety Commissioner Thomas A. Gleason.
The eight officers have previous police experience and transferred to the Department of Public Safety from three municipal police departments in Westchester.
The new officers are: Clinton Boxhill, Abdu Lawrence, Conrado Builes Ramirez, Alberto Ramos, Rasau Romeo, Nicholas Smith, Thomas Hagan and Kristin
Reilly.
“This is a diverse group of officers who bring significant experience and talents to the Westchester County Police,” Latimer said. “We are pleased to have them in our ranks and I wish them much success in their careers with the County Police.”
Latimer also noted that a civil service exam for police officer positions is tentatively planned for May 2021, but might have to be delayed because of Covid-19
concerns. He encouraged those who are interested in a police career to watch for announcements from the county early next year. The civil service exam, administered by the Westchester County Department of Human Resources, is used for hiring new police officers for the county police, the police departments in the cities of Rye and Peekskill, and all town and village departments in Westchester.
“You must take the civil service exam to become eligible to be hired as a police officer and be admitted to the Westchester County Police Academy,” Latimer
said. We will be working hard to publicize this opportunity and will hold recruitment events across Westchester to try to ensure that a diverse group of people
take the exam. We want our local police departments to reflect the entire Westchester community—and that begins by having a diverse group of applicants take
the test.”
When exam details are finalized, the county will post the information on westchestergov.com and its social media channels. To receive notifications of all upcoming civil service exams, people can sign up to receive email notifications at https://exams.westchestergov.com/webexam/email-Subscription/subscribe.htm.
As for the county’s newest officers, Gleason said they have been assigned to the uniformed Patrol Services Division and will begin field training immediately.
During field training, each officer is teamed up with a Field Training Officer to become familiar with county police policies, procedures and all patrol posts, including parkway patrols, County parks and facilities, the Westchester County Airport and municipal precincts in Mount Kisco and Cortlandt.
The new officers will be given a permanent patrol assignment upon completion of their field training, Gleason said.
The eight new officers were sworn in Monday, Dec. 14, following a promotion ceremony at the Westchester County Police Academy attended by Latimer
and Deputy County Executive Ken Jenkins. Promoted from sergeant to lieutenant were Vincent Antonecchia, Robert Ess and Anthony Morizio. Promoted from police officer to sergeant were Kyle McCarrick, Isai Moreira, Francis Pagliuca and Mark Shkreli.
“I welcome our newest officers to the WCPD and congratulate those we have promoted,” Gleason said. “We are expecting great things from all of them.”
(Submitted)
