Board of Police Commissioners Plans To Extend Guilford Police Chief's Contract

By Jack Kramer, Correspondent

GUILFORD, CT – The board who oversees the town’s police department has begun the process to make sure the man who leads the department sticks around.

At the most recent meeting of the Board of Police Commissioners, the commissioners voted unanimously to seek an extension of the agreement to keep Chief Jeff Hutchinson as Guilford’s top cop.

Hutchinson has been chief since 2015 and had been on the Guilford force for over 25 years.

Police Commission Chairman Mike Mikolay explained that in the chief’s contract there is clauses that the commission needs to decide 180 days in advance of the pact’s expiration whether it wants to seek an extension.

Since the chief’s contract expires on June 30th of next year, that’s why the vote was taken, Mikolay explained.

Mikolay said the commission is more than happy with the job the chief has done “leading our fine department.”

He added: “Regarding next steps, I would anticipate that we should be able to come to terms with the chief over the course of the next weeks and vote to approve his new agreement at a future commission meeting.”