Branford Moving Closer To Adding Deputy Police Chief Position

By Jack Kramer, Correspondent

BRANFORD, CT – Police Chief Kevin Halloran has made no secret of the fact that his years serving the town as its top cop are winding down. At the most recent Board of Police Commissioners meeting the board discussed the leadership of the department after that time comes.

Halloran has been Branford police chief since 2011, when he replaced John DeCarlo. Halloran has worked in the Branford police department since 1989.

The commissioners, noting that Halloran will likely be retiring around 2020, voted to ask the Board of Finance to move one-third of the salary of a not-yet funded deputy chief’s position – or $38,400 – from contingency to the police department’s next year budget.

One of the commissioners made the comment that replacing Halloran will not be easy and “we need to stop screwing around and get this (the deputy chief’s position in the budget) done.”

The commissioners agreed that it is time to fund the position and said that it will prepare the upcoming budget with the goal of asking for the remaining funds necessary to fully fund the deputy chief position.